A comment is the top result for "where was gta made"."
Not for me. Wikipedia is #1. I retrieved 100 results. None of them were HN comments.
"A comment from desdiv is ranking #1 for the question "Monaco in italian""
For me Wikipedia was again #1. HN comment was #2.
"Another article that ranks well for several keywords like "ruined my life" is GRAHAM PANTHER's article, and HN also ranks well for brand-related KW, such as every question about the cost of youtube tv, where Google favours the post from thunderbong."
For the search "cost of youtube tv", NerdWallet ranked #1. HN comment was #10.
It is baffling to me that people, who certainly know that results for the same query can vary according to a number of factors, e.g., geolocation, pretend every computer user performing some Google search query is getting identical results.
Ideally that is how search should work. But Google web search is not ideal. Far from it. It is advertising company search. The goal is not to return results in a consistent, transparent manner according to a relatively simple, well-known algorithm. It is to sell advertising services. The goal is not truth. It's money.