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Comment by lysace | Hacker News Reader

It is weird that I get this news item from my local general interest newspaper in Europe but not from the HN front page, isn't it?

Posted another source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653028) since I feel this needs a discussion. This one has a more descriptive headline though.

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I also am a bit mystified as to why this isn't trending to the front.

Not sure, but HN might down weight reuters due to paywall, and this story seems to be a Reuters-exclusive.

It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got scrubbed from the front page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510285

Currently there is another OpenAI story on the front page about about Mira Murati leaving [1], and a couple of comments there are also talking about this news of OpenAI removing non-profit control [2] [3].

I tend to agree that this is the bigger story and more worthy of being on the front page, but HN tends to enjoy a bit of celebrity gossip so not surprising to me that the news of the CTO leaving would get more traction.

I don't think it's any sort of conspiracy if that's what you're implying.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651038

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653013

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651601

I see what you mean, but at the same time there is a value in this being discussed on its own. The celebrity gossip story is currently covering up the actual important news. (Yeah, I'll go with with that conspiracy theory, also known as a classic PR move.)

Yes very weird this isn’t on the front page

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