Good question. The answer is that HN is community driven and that what ends up on it reflects on the qualities of its diverse readership. But I agree that this

Good question. The answer is that HN is community driven and that what ends up on it reflects on the qualities of its diverse readership. But I agree that this bit of writing comes across as a bit overly assertive and arrogant; and probably trivially proved wrong by actually running some benchmarks. By the same reasoning, the Apple M1 would obviously be slower than anything Intel and AMD produce given similar energy and transistor density constraints (i.e. same class of hardware). Except that obviously isn't the case and we have the Macbook air with the M1 more than holding up against much more expensive Intel/AMD chips. Reason: chips don't actually work like this person seems to assume. The whole article is a sandcastle of bad assumptions leading up to an arrogantly worded & wrong conclusion.