On the contrary, my experience with HN is that people are across-the-board far too accepting, credulous, and unskeptical of machine learning posts, especially g

On the contrary, my experience with HN is that people are across-the-board far too accepting, credulous, and unskeptical of machine learning posts, especially given how most commenters have little ML experience and given how incredibly easy in machine learning it is to create "amazing" results that are actually worthless. This is particularly unique to the field of AI/ML - it's pretty hard to bullshit a new programming language you've developed, or a new mobile app you've published.