Well, no, I felt earlier when I posted this that I owed a "steps to reproduce my results" explanation. It got lost and I'm glad they called that out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118136

I'm definitely frustrated that so many people (in top-level comments on HN, especially) are taking for granted some random Internet post without verifying it, but that's no excuse for the missing methodology.