>This is also how HN works: 99% of the time, there’s enough summary and context in the comments that I always just click through to the comments first to find out whether the article/video/whatever is worth the time.
Isn't that also a folly of HN? People not reading the articles and rushing to the comments to make some proclamation or put in their two cents.
Except you can fully understand this topic in a lot less than thirty minutes - I agree that people making half-reasoned arguments is a problem but at the same time you can comprehend the contents of this conjecture and the disproving of it via a few simple statements about graphs or relational algebra.
Isn't that also a folly of HN? People not reading the articles and rushing to the comments to make some proclamation or put in their two cents.