I'm glad you got so much about how my book is written from a few paragraphs in an unfinished manuscript for it.
Really though, there's no content here. The fact it's been voted to #1 on hackernews shows just how bad things are.
Items should be upvoted on their merit, rather than who did them. Someone writing another book about programming C isn't newsworthy.
1. The post is about Zed's draft; is it really so far of a leap to interpret hp's remarks as a criticism of the book?
2. Is this a fair paraphrase? "Everyone here isn't attacking you, also, your draft sucks and shouldn't have been posted on HN."
No, it's not. speckledjim is complaining that someone writing another book on C is not news, he doesn't say anything about the draft sucking.
However, "someone who wrote a ground-breaking introductory book in xyz modern-popular-hip language is turning his attention to C, of all things" is newsworthy.