Or maybe people are just more interested in arguing for/against the first one and a comments thread like this seems like a good place for it? It's not like they

Or maybe people are just more interested in arguing for/against the first one and a comments thread like this seems like a good place for it? It's not like they're such unrelated topics that discussing beekeeping ethics in this thread is ridiculous if that's what people want to discuss, it's not like discussing potato chips in a thread about CPU chips. I'll also add that I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong, as you seem to, with coming straight to a HN comments thread without first reading the article. I know I'm not alone in intentionally doing that quite often, partly because for many subjects (including this one) I'm not really interested enough to want to read an article-length deep dive of any single person's opinion, whereas seeing a wide range of views in comment-length bee-sized pieces has the potential to be interesting to me. I've always got the option to go read the full article if after reading the comments it seems like I'd find it interesting to do so.