HN has always had room for the occasional off beat. Since this is a clever parody of a stock computer science paper, it's not even a stretch to understand why i

HN has always had room for the occasional off beat. Since this is a clever parody of a stock computer science paper, it's not even a stretch to understand why it got upvoted. I admit that I didn't get it, though, until I watched the (much funnier) video. It's really a parody of a stock computer science talk, with associated paper.