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Not trying to be too much of a conspiracy thinker but 227 points in 1 hour should give the first spot on HN (it was though) but now it's on #12. Are the investors pulling some strings?

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You don't know how many people have flagged the article or not. There was a very sudden drop, so something happened, but it's impossible to give the actual root cause unless you're on the inside of HN itself. I'd assume flags over any sort of conspiracy here.

I saw the drop and wondered if there was something afoot, then talked myself off that ledge and assumed this was probably some kind of normal flag like ring detection triggered, etc.

Interesting additional note, though, the title has (relatively recently) changed to "Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails" versus the actual article title of "Superhuman is Spying on You"

Yes, this post fell down unusually fast. May not be HN specifically but perhaps a large, motivated SF cohort.

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