A lot of the original discussion can be chalked up to HN's unfortunate habit of treating all front page material the same, regardless of whether it's an article

A lot of the original discussion can be chalked up to HN's unfortunate habit of treating all front page material the same, regardless of whether it's an article proving Fermat's Last Theorem or a spur-of-the-moment blog post from some random dude. But you should expect that on a website primarily populated by INTP users.