The top comments did indeed say everything was fine, although to be fair, almost every single reply to those comments said the OP was full of shit, and gave rea

The top comments did indeed say everything was fine, although to be fair, almost every single reply to those comments said the OP was full of shit, and gave reasons which turned out to be entirely correct. By comment volume, the skeptics were much more represented. So it seems like the population of HN has both a bunch of boosters who will blindly upvote plausible-sounding “everything is fine” positions but also a bunch of better-informed people who will do the work in tearing those boosters down.