As submitter, I mostly agree. Microbenchmarks are the celebrity gossip of the tech world. They are mostly meaningless, but they get more attention and controversy than they deserve.

And yet, I submitted it anyway. I saw a link, found it interesting, and as such posted it. I'm a little surprised it made it to the front page, but if there were more interesting content available, I assume it wouldn't have.

My comment was not directed to you only. Such things rising to the front page is, in equal part, our(voters/commenters) fault also.

A year back HN front page was all I needed for my daily dose of interesting tech stories(I hate Twitter). Now really good content is buried away in later pages most of the time.