I was looking for updates to this thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3147157<p>but it is nowhere to be found on HN. Even after several pages, it does not show up.<p>I searched for it on Google, and that's how I found it, and it apparently is still present in the HN database, but simply does not show up on the first several pages of HN.<p>I've noticed this before with other threads, and I'm a bit baffled. Was this flagged as spam? If yes, why wasn't it deleted? If no, why is it hidden?
The thread you linked to is (currently) three days old. That's like practically an archaelogical dig for HN (granted it was only 2 days old when you posted this now day old question). This forum moves pretty fast. I email myself a link to anything I want to check back on because it moves so fast. I really don't see any reason to treat this as some big mystery.