This post was on the HN front page and made it all the way there without comment, mine being the first.

Breaking the silence by posting something unsubstantive is the worst thing you can do. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions. Please don't do that again.

It's quite normal for a thread to get upvoted but not get comments for quite a while. If that means people are reading and digesting the article, that's great. We want reflective comments, not reflexive ones (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) and those take time.

Got it, sorry about that. Will reconsider in future.

Appreciated!

Yeah but you posted that comment like, 20 minutes after the post even went up, probably less than 10 minutes after it hit the front page. For a post to not have any/many comments at that point is pretty normal.