No, the instagram buyout was #1/Pg1 less than a minute after it hit /newest :-)

I suspect a lot of people (like me) are following this closely so as soon as there is news it gets voted up here.

Glad the jury found in Google's favor, I think that was the right call. And I really hope that Judge Alsup finds that APIs are not copywritable, Still waiting on that one.

I believe it might have been this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 ;)

Don't all posts start at #1 immediately, then trail away until they get upvotes? Or is that just how a user sees their own submissions?

You see it as #1 on the 'newest' page, but not on the 'new' page.