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This isn't a good answer for why a major cybersecurity story that largely throws the idea of doing business with any Israeli company ever into jeopardy (any company could be a state malware operation in disguise) to the 5th page when it was upvoted as much as it was.

I know HN's algorithm is weird, but this story deserves to stick to the front page for more than the couple of hours the last thread lasted. I don't agree with the algorithm automatically deplatforming controversial topics.

The story probably is being curated off the front page, but to be fair I understand the motivation. There aren’t many subjects that inspire as many high emotions as Israel. Everyone has strong options. The mods probably think it’s not worth the trouble to police the threads and they’re probably right. Nobody is going to change any minds in any of those threads anyway.

So then we shouldn’t be talking about AI either? No contentious topics for HN?

P.S. Most stories on HN that mention Israel in anything remotely related to tech end up with hundreds of comments

On other hand a story Saudi national spying on OpenAI this week got 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078176

That was just one of several dupes. The actual thread of that discussion had 650 points and 554 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141

Where were you people when the very technical reports of the DOGE activities were being [flagged] off the front page?

I was also mad about that. Is this supposed to be a gotcha?

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