Wow... not just 10X programmers, but 100X, and the only evidence seems to be a firm assertion at the start of the book.
Meanwhile we are told that HN has excellent protection against upvoting rings. How the heck does this reach the front page in an organic way?
I'd go one step further and say this little trend of quantifying how amazing people are by representing them as a multiple of how many plebs they're worth is pretty stupid as well.