While it's indeed true that the top two threads' root comments are sceptical, replies to them, and further threads, present counter-arguments — one could easily

While it's indeed true that the top two threads' root comments are sceptical, replies to them, and further threads, present counter-arguments — one could easily come away from reading the HN discussion thinking that there's something to this paper. (And indeed, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261645)