Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back (theregister.co.uk)

Fascinating. Despite its relevance, this story never got higher than page five, even going lower for a while:

https://i.imgur.com/BYcBGDz.png

Here's the "worst" snapshot, first column is rank, second column is age in minutes, third is score; all compared stories had less or equal number of comments, so in this case, zero.

    71      660     3       The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story
    72      780     5       Plane – minimal visual improvements for Linux
    120     1080    3       The plan to move the Swedish town of Kiruna
    128     1140    3       Slow television
    129     1380    4       The story behind the first computer in Canada (2016)
    139     1200    3       Experience of phantom limbs lets amputees control real replacements
    140     1200    3       Old coal mines can be underground food farms

    150     540     6       Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back

I've also noticed a similar thing happening regarding seemingly important issues. Hacker news may have been hacked