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		pmalynin on Sept 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 5M Gmail passwords leaked to Russian Bitcoin forum Huh, I wonder why. Because it seems my submission is being penalized for being submitted hours before it hit the general media.

r721 on Sept 10, 2014 [–]

There are a few reasons:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

I think it's the relation between upvotes/comments and also maybe many were upvoting from the submission page (which triggers vote ring detection or something, read about that somewhere)

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