Making a reference to whatever related subject has a lot of mindshare is a pretty common format for low effort comments around here. It's just HN's high brow v

Making a reference to whatever related subject has a lot of mindshare is a pretty common format for low effort comments around here. It's just HN's high brow version of making an equally low effort quip about the front falling off. It clearly gets a positive reception sufficiently more often than a negative one or people wouldn't do it.