Why is it meaningless? It sounds like you disagree with it, so maybe you would like to discredit it's face value.

The "perpetual reposting" seems like a signal that it resonates with some people? Once again proving that it likely isn't meaningless (at least to everybody).

At the time of writing, Go was extremely overhyped on HN. I wanted to cool off the excitement a bit. These days everyone is aware of the points I made, but back then this was a refreshing take.