You guys are more on the ball than I am. When my post got instant upvotes I thought, "How pleasant that so many people are interested in dataflow computation".
Probably HN's software is detecting the suspicious voting and killing the posts.
It went up like a rocket and disappeared just as fast. I didn't submit it so I have no clue whether or not the submitter gamed the system but it sure looked weird.
Given the subject of this thread that's actually an on-topic link :)
Probably HN's software is detecting the suspicious voting and killing the posts.