The "First Round Review" is an embarrassment, they push out content-free fluffy valley conventional wisdom every day or so, an unfortunate number of which make it to the HN front page for some reason.
The content isn't new or noteworthy.
I suspect some strategic upvoting but maybe I'm just paranoid.
You called attention to the strategic upvoting.
Which means you get downvoted.
Welcome to real HN where groupthink is the only think.