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Off topic: This is strange. This story was posted an hour ago, it has, at the moment, 24 points, yet I can only see it on /newest. It was briefly on the front page, but now I can't find it there. There's also no sign of it on the second, third, fourth or fifth page. I didn't look further. Weird. Does anybody have an explanation?

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I found this too. Not sure why. Perhaps it just fell off the front page?

Posts on politically charged issues get flagged off the front page quickly.

True, but I couldn't find it on the next five pages either. If it had received so many flags, it would have been autokilled. But it wasn't (and still isn't) [dead]. The first thing I thought of was that there may be a bug in HN code... perhaps there are other posts that aren't visible even though they aren't dead. Maybe PG should look into this.

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