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More than 600 points and no comments? What's going on here?

Maybe it's something like that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902

According to HN Rankings this post never got a ranking, so probably voting ring detector caught this:

There's definitely something iffy here. Over 1200 score in 25m.

Maybe the author shared the upvote link instead of the link to the post itself? It sounds like the most likely explanation.

I do wonder why this issue has never been fixed?!

Very strange, it made it to the #1 on the Best list here on HN.

Well, this is also one of those rare articles that keeps me coming back to HN.

Alright. I'll comment. -- I find it interesting to learn just how much the Go compiler can "optimize your code away". That's both good and bad.

The point on benchmarking the right thing is 100% spot on, same goes for testing too. The optimization problem however is a bit too contrived IMO. When would you possible write code (aside from very trivial things) where the compiler would optimize all your code away, thus making your benchmarking invalid? I want to see a real-world example of where someone has been caught out by this?

Over 1200 points in 1 hour with no comments.