Hacker News Reader

They're still on here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723104) but dropping down the front page oddly quickly. Right now it's the 160th story despite having 208 upvotes in 3 hours. Could it be getting a lot of flags?

It's rather long-form content to do well on HN.

Typically most readers want a good title, and to have a good TL;DR of the article in the first 3 sentences.

These articles don't even really get their point across in the first 3 pages.

HN is a backed by large organizations, of course they will at some point control the news feed.

Idealism is only possible for small organizations or those beholden to no one. We need to stop giving the benefit of the doubt when history shows time and again that corporate entities lose their human values in trade for financial ones.

git clone https://www.epicwar.com/maps/129468/