Saying anything anti-rails or anti-apple on HN would be blasphemy methinks. I think the issue with node is it has a little bit of promise for a small number of applications, but there's a lot of falsehoods that are propagated around node. The whole "non-blocking means that it scales to infinity and beyond" and other stuff like that are things that need to be reigned in. Scalability is a lot more than just saying "well, throw nodejs at it and you're done."

What are you referring to? The only node post on the front page doesn't have any Node bashing comments in it.