At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly promotes posts.

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calpaterson 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That is indeed how it works

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

But not in this case. It's a slow Sunday afternoon and getting a few upvotes quickly is enough

	▲	joshdavham 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN. Would you mind explaining to us how it works?

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an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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mdrachuk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Great work HN team, since it’s indeed an interesting story.

	▲	kuboble 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I assume it was for 30 minutes in waiting with 0 votes before someone digged it out.
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mr_toad 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mods might be amused to be described as fairly godmothers.