It’s a hamfisted attempt to assert the correctness of one’s argument by fiat. It’s the grown-up “are not / am too!”

Please keep in mind that some HNers are modeling their behavior after buggy machines and bad code and that this influences their thinking and language.

logical coherence and fallacies far pre-date computers and code

The sentence was unnecessary to both your point and any argument in general. Why did you include it? Why are you defending it's inclusion? Why are you now saying "google it"?