But I also think it's very fair for a medical device company take some scrutiny if its CEO is famous for overpromising and underdelivering.
The comments are arranged based on score and time posted. They're not going to be the same for every user who visits the page.
You can clearly see that there are mentions about Musk before Vermeulen made their comment.
(also, you can hover the "N minutes/hours ago" and see the timestamp on HN too, which again will show you which chronological order things were posted in)
Here’s my view: https://ibb.co/W2kvvmz
You can “clearly see” that this musk comment is third.
I took "First" to mean in time, not order of the page. I guess I understood you wrong, because if you're talking about time, their comment was not the first to mention Musk. But I guess if you mean "first" as in "highest on the page", then you're right that it's higher up.
But as you know, comments are not ordered by time, but time + score, but somehow this point seems to be lost while crossing through the wires.
This is the risk you drive with "great men" idols in any space, that's why it's always safest to talk about ideas and technologies themselves.
Neuralink is something that could kill people. And with manned space travel at least buyers that is agencies have enough rigor to ensure it is good before going forward.