I'm going to call this a dupe as there's been multiple discussions in the past year, though of different URLs:
6 months ago, 31 comments / 81 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379872
3 months ago, 20 comments / 38 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388966
4 monts ago, 24 comments / 32 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28813746
If the submitter wants to make the case that this brings something new to the discussion that's a fair argument. I don't think it does.