alt Hacker NewsEvery metric becomes a target (Goodhart's law). Also, the plural of anecdote is not data.
The subjective anecdotes from HN users matter because they are not data and are much harder to game. Not impossible to game, always be aware of users with low karma, but more difficult than gaming a benchmark.
But they’re not at all meaningful after a certain point, because they’re not even attempting to explain why it works well for them. It’s just noise like this.