[cubefox]

Papers being voted high on Hacker News are usually uncorrelated with their actual importance. It's basically a lottery. There are regularly more interesting papers going semi viral on Twitter.

[kingkawn]

What about broad unsupportable generalizations on hackernews, how do those rank?

[MeteorMarc]

On huggingface it was #3 paper of the day, which is neutral towards your hypothesis.

[cubefox]

Considering that there is a paper with this many points perhaps once a week here (probably less), #3 of the day is pretty unremarkable.