I'm well aware of the existence of the flag button. From experience, however, a comment urging others to hit the flag button helps bury lousy entries like this

I'm well aware of the existence of the flag button. From experience, however, a comment urging others to hit the flag button helps bury lousy entries like this a lot faster than average. As demonstrated. I should also urge you to look at the submissions guidelines for HN - this falls rather squarely into the 'unsubstantial, crap content' category. Again, speaking from experience - I make it a point to alert other members when I can (the flagging usually begins shortly after). Front-page space is precious; it's too expensive to waste it on something like this (edit: that rarely encourages interesting conversation).