I was coming to the comments in search of what 100x meant -- how it was measured and compared. If someone is 100x more productive, they ought to be able to build systems in days or weeks instead of years, right? Kind of joking, but mostly poking fun at what seem like silly numbers.
From the data it looks to me like established community members were interested in the topic. Perhaps they didn't look at the article, perhaps they noticed something about it that you didn't, and/or perhaps they're familiar with gnocchi's fine submission history.
To be fair, 100x does sound a little ridiculous. It's like calling someone "Lisp Jesus".
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.