Off topic/meta, but the Llama 3.2 news topic received many, many HN submissions and upvotes but never made it to the front page: the fact that it's on the front page now indicates that moderators intervened to rescue it: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=meta.com (showdead on)
If there's an algorithmic penalty against the news for whatever reason, that may be a flaw in the HN ranking algorithm.
The main issue was that Meta quickly took down the first announcement, and the only remaining working submission was the information-sparse HuggingFace link. By the time the other links were back up, it was too late. Perfect opportunity for a rescue.
Yeah I submitted what turned out to be a dupe but I could never find the original, probably was buried at the time. Then a few hours later it miraculously (re?)appeared.
AIUI exact dupes just get counted as upvotes, which hasn’t happened in my case.
If there's an algorithmic penalty against the news for whatever reason, that may be a flaw in the HN ranking algorithm.