Lucy Letby is a nurse recently convicted in the UK of murder of a number of babies in the ward she worked on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby .

Rachel Aviv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Aviv wrote a piece in the New Yorker about the case that raises doubts about the accuracy of the verdict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby#Doubts_about_convic... .

This article is not available in the UK due to a court order: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/mp-u...

The case, and the suppression of the article, is about a current event and touches on issues of censorship and the uses of statistics that are often discussed here on HN.

Censorship I guess, this can't be reported in the UK (and the New Yorker geoblocks the UK) since there is an appeal pending. Kind of silly in the age of TCP/IP.

I mean, it's on the front page because people upvoted it.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I would ask: Why did it slip off the front page so quickly? It's surely a more interesting story than yet another repost of ADSL works over wet string.