Those are news from almost yesterday. This is a high turn carousel. Try to keep up... :-)

I would love to see the stats on hacker news activity the last few days

Yep. Maybe they assigned a second CPU core to the server[1].

[1] HN is famous for being programmed in Arc and serving the entire forum from a single processor (probably multicore). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37257928