Odd. I posted this same essential news story on the day it occurred only to have it flagged for no apparent reason, despite being major news about a famous figure, on a site where notifications about famous figures and major non-tech news aren't uncommon.
It’s not odd if you consider that hacker news is not really the place with that kind of discussion generally
If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll see that massive topics like that are intentionally kept off the front page for a while so that it doesn’t overwhelm everyone
Frankly, I’m glad that’s the policy because Reddit (and I assume all other media) yesterday was just completely covered top to bottom in the story
