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2 days late, but creator here -- this is as designed.

Every entry on hckrnews has hit the homepage, so 'all' is exactly that. The current homepage filter is simply a filter to show what is presently on the homepage of news.ycombinator.com.

But this is not the first time someone has been confused about the homepage filter, so I could probably explain that better somehow.

This matches my experience having received one Nov 2018 (and returning it a few weeks later). It was constantly getting my actual sleep times wrong, more often than not marking me as being asleep while watching tv in the evening.

After contacting support, their solution was an upcoming update to their app where I'd be able to edit the data so that I could override the app whenever I knew it was wrong. Which completely invalidates the primary reason to own this product. I mean, if I knew when I was asleep, why would I need a ring to track it?!

So given that it couldn't properly track sleep, doesn't track activity (by design), the only other purpose in my mind was to track HRV. And count me as skeptical of the accuracy of that data as well.

"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)" vs "Beef" is a minuscule difference?

That's what is intended -- it shows the items currently on the frontpage. So it will not show entry from the previous days because they are no longer on the frontpage. (The UI should not show the previous days in this case, and maybe there is something more I could be doing to make more obvious what is supposed to be happening).

Curiously the entries from April 6 that do show up is a bug due to an issue I had with the process going down for a number of hours, leaving those two entries not being properly updated to remove the 'homepage' flag.

I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.

So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.

As an aside, I do find it interesting that this submission is nowhere to be found from the main page itself (or at least 5 pages back, despite 50 points and 17 comments. I guess it was flagged/vouched back, but having showdead on in your hacker news profile does nothing to help if the algorithm drops the submission into nowhereland.

That is reason enough for the existence of hckrnews.com, imo.