That is not the case for this one. And it doesn't even have Ask HN in the title.

But it was a new post with a few votes? That’s the ratio of time to votes mag have been very high ranking for a moment.

As for the lack of ask hn, I don’t know how it’s decided, but it’s not required for something to be considered one (common case on the ask page)

	▲	owebmaster 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		it had 2 points when I added the comment and it is amazing that this post is still in the front page of Ask HN with plenty of real Ask HN posted[1] 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...