Some developer decides to show a utility library they wrote for better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types to Hacker News and this is the reaction?

Right this very moment there's a REST library for Haskell on the front page, and Javascript libraries for various purposes show up on a semi-regular basis. Libraries, code, and frameworks for frivolous and serious purposes, for old and new languages alike, are constantly being posted to Hacker News. I honestly don't see how this is any different, except for this backlash to phantom hype which I find frankly quite puzzling.