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csense on July 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cous...

There was an older article in the #1 slot with well over 200 upvotes and a ton of comments, but I don't know what happened to it? Perhaps the mods removed it for some reason?

mrspeaker on July 23, 2015 [–]

It plummeted down off the front page, and is now a bunch of pages deep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935198

I guess it hit some metric in the ranking algo!

mmastrac on July 23, 2015 | [–]

It was probably just user-flagged since it was kind of a lightweight submission.

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