alt Hacker NewsOne of the archive.org links to this story was flagged a few hours after taking off last night. Might’ve been this one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361571
I assumed this thread had been axed and manually reapproved. Probably likewise for some of the other people posting inb4s.
I think they were all flagged to varying degrees. That's partly why I asked for clarification - there are so many things your question might mean that I wasn't sure which one to answer!