TBH a great many high comment high interest threads get [flagged] on HN thanks to fat fingers on little screens so it's hard to judge from that alone.
Watching it on the day they were mostly not flagged for much of the time .. dang (moderator) wasn't even "here" until hours later - he took an internet free holiday fishing somewhere or something.
267 points by happyopossum 8 days ago | 552 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40957564
and multiple other threads (most eventually merged)