That is weird. I opened this thread because I saw one comment and 630 upvotes, which seemed off. Makes sense though that the one comment was noting the weird ratio.

It might be a bot network upvoting this, but I'm not sure what motive there is in setting your bot network on upvoting a CS paper from 60 years ago.

EDIT: I'm guessing it's a repost from the second-chance pool. hn.algolia.com shows this as having been posted 3 days ago.

> It might be a bot network upvoting this, but I'm not sure what motive there is in setting your bot network on upvoting a CS paper from 60 years ago

A demonstration that it works

people loving the idea and upvoting before reading the text (they are still reading) or people intrigued and upvoting in the hope that someone else read and then summarizes the text?

feels unlikely that 900 people are upvoting while reading and that it takes ~1 hour per page...

It is still very weird. The ratio of upvotes and comments is way off for posts that are upvoted like that. Also with this amount of votes it’s starting to be one of the highlights of the last 6 month maybe the year…

1,400+ points now. and climbing. 8 comments... fishy for sure

Maybe someone demoed bot farm?

Because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255477