Welp! For some reason someone at HN decided to change the title and bump this down to the 11th position (atm). Not sure what I did wrong here but it feels pretty crappy...
For the sake of transparency it was explained to me that the title was too "link baity" and that the comment section was a bit too heated. I appreciate the explanation and I agree this kind of moderation is, unfortunately, required to keep things civil and constructive.