Highly technical posts on HN have a tendency to accrue a lot of upvotes before a discussion develops. I attribute this to (perhaps optimistically) people actual

Highly technical posts on HN have a tendency to accrue a lot of upvotes before a discussion develops. I attribute this to (perhaps optimistically) people actually taking the time to read the post. When something is so technically dense, it can also be difficult for people to add anything to it; hence it takes a while before a real discussion starts.