I think it's not all that bad, but it doesn't deserve the number 2 spot... there are better articles out there.

Now I'm really curious. This was on the front page a few hours ago, now it's dead. What special powers does one need to kill a link? Is Hacker News being gamed already, the current solution being editorial oversight?

To be fair, the humor piece about a grad student's day also made the front page and had about the same intellectual value as this one did. But it was better written and better targeted to this community.

It seems that the community (not just this one) is a fickle mistress. I'm really curious how a system can be built to stabilize it.

I wish there was a "cancel your upvote" for those of us who vote first and then read the article afterwards :-) People like me might be part of the problem how this crap got to the first page.