It was an attack on HN'ers blindly upvoting things from arxiv, because most HN readers do not properly scrutinize postings from arxiv or take it with a grain of

It was an attack on HN'ers blindly upvoting things from arxiv, because most HN readers do not properly scrutinize postings from arxiv or take it with a grain of salt. I was well aware these were actual researchers. Your comment probably didn't help very much here because most HN'ers, again, will just see that the authors are PhD's or from a decent group, and assume it's a legit paper.