Surprisingly, it seems not to have made the front page: http://hnrankings.info/23191439/. There's clearly community appetite to discuss this, so we won't treat the current submission as a dupe.
“ Did HN's antispam measures get a lot more aggressive recently? The last handful of Jepsen reports have really struggled to make it to frontpage, despite significantly higher vote-to-age ratios than comparable posts. Once they're on FP, they reliably hit top 10, but Dgraph's (1/2) ” https://twitter.com/jepsen_io/status/1261640852666855426
Funnily enough I emailed aphyr earlier this afternoon to let him know that the current submission was at #1 on HN and that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285249 had strangely failed to make the front page despite all the upvotes it got. There wasn't any moderation in either case. Nothing has changed recently. There's just a lot more randomness than people assume...2000 submissions a day competing for the same 30 slots creates a lot of weird high-pressure effects.
