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By being the new post with the most points and comments in 2 hours.

If another post would was more recent and had more points it would be higher.

These posts get a temporary boost but if the points stay the same while being at the top, it'll disappear pretty soon.

I suspect #points is the main factor. And the algorithm wants to surface fresh stuff, otherwise we'd still all be talking about Sam Altman. Glad we aren't :-) (nothing against Sam...)

Seems pretty easy to bot. Its also a personal blog which adds to suspicion. There is also a new trend which is trying to get on hackernews front page

Someone at ycombinator boosts and deranks posts. I see it all the time.

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