The subtitle is more memorable: "For the Record - and The Tragedy of Mozilla".
That was definitely a better article than this one. I'd say that the flagging over the past few days has had a negative effect on HN's ranking of posts. Perhaps the mods could step in to counteract it under such circumstances?
Just FYI -- It is also part of this submission (liked in text). And also was submitted earlier on HN. And promptly burried by flags etc. During the #Hot_topic discussion the day the news came out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535127