I'm not saying that this is impossible, but it's 3:40 on a Monday in Central Europe right now. I imagine the headline resonates with many readers here.

Being a European, I first upvoted, then moved on to read the article. I assume I’m not the only one.

And my corner of Europe is relatively not that red-tape-ish. But many places are pretty horrible when it comes to that.

FWIW, I, a real human, have read it and upvoted it, about 5 minutes after starting to read it.

Probably not, I think it is mostly real people who upvote based on just the headline with reading it just because the headline agrees with their worldview.

Given how fast your comment is being swarmed, I suspect so.

Also seems like exactly the kind of thing Elmo would fund.

EDIT: And now it's been censored. What a strange coincidence!

Yeah there's very limited anti-tampering in HN. Grok posts are full of bots and fake votes