[madez]

I don’t see what should’ve been considered rude behaviour here regarding the mentioned individual. The only critical reactions I see are twofold. First, there is the critique for missing sources for his claims. Second, the factual claim is refuted by experiment, for at least some environments. Both objections are valid.

I’m afraid, too, that said individual is feeling bad for the reaction HN gave him, but I think he shouldn’t! If you were wrong, be happy for having learnt something. If anybody thinks less about you for it, they are jerks.

[rjshayes]

Yeah, my remarks now lack their context with the deletions/edits. I haven't checked hacker news since I edited by own reply, but I can only imagine they were edited by the time you saw them, given the time stamps.