As often happens with random oddball things which become traditions in web communities, the replies asking what it is or complaining about it, begin to gain their own humor value.
Same reason you would always see the same top comments on reddit during a certain era.
That’s what I think too, but we should actively go against such culture here because hn is not reddit.
It basically is at this point, if you haven’t noticed. Complete with the same America bad, Elon bad, democrats good midwit progressive politics.
Elon does suck. Objectively.
Don't forget EU bad! Because they won't let Apple screw over consumers.
Is this Straw Man and Ad Hominem ?
Almost all Musk related negative news gets [flagged] and never hits the the front page, so there is still a silent base on the other "team" apparently.
It has become a funny meme, much like "My hovercraft is full of eels!"
because you can't still ask LLMs to port DOOM to hardware X or Y
It's a meme, and HN loves upvoting memes. Just like Reddit!