People are missing the point that it is creative and gets the job done, conversation pieces can go a long way.
When I showed the machine to my son, Nate, a mechanical engineer, he thought it looked like something from a 1950's sci-fi movie like "Forbidden Planet". Back then, plastics were high-tech and new, and with the acrylic domes, the Satoshi9000 would not look out of place on the set of that movie.
He suggested that every coffee table should have one!
Likely thousands of HNers viewed the link. 100+ upvoted. A couple of random accounts (individual(s)? bots?) leave similar comments.
And then somehow those comments are supposed to reflect a wider sentiment of some community or population?