There doesn't appear to be any justification given for the eight posts selected for analysis. Given that nearly everything fails, choosing seven well recognize

There doesn't appear to be any justification given for the eight posts selected for analysis. Given that nearly everything fails, choosing seven well recognized successes and one started that scaled quickly but failed seems an interesting methodological choice. Neither to they present any evidence that anyone is, in fact, obsessing over HN comments. The whole thing is "don't let the haters get you down" tweet expanded endlessly. With a infographic. One can admire the article as a piece of analysis shaped SEO-bait, even as one despairs over the value it subtracts from the world by existing.