[anon84873628]

Comparing a few paragraphs of HN comment to the Nobel prize in literature is just bizarre. I'm not surprised people assumed it must be sarcastic. Or if you put that aside, then it seems to disparage the Nobel prize. It's just such a hyperbolic claim without any rhetorical purpose and doesn't make any sense. I'm happy the commenter was so moved though...

[Qem]

The Nobel prize self disparaged when they gave the Peace one to a guy that later went to bomb seven countries: https://theintercept.com/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-d...

[nick-of-time]

Long, long before that, when they gave it to a guy who intentionally prolonged the Vietnam War and ordered the bombing of civilians in a country not even involved in the war. https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F20...