Not to hate on Daring Fireball but why is it that a link from his site about this topic gets more comments and points than an original HN that pointed it out in

Not to hate on Daring Fireball but why is it that a link from his site about this topic gets more comments and points than an original HN that pointed it out in the first place? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1116039 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1116039 Its as though no one cared too much about this until Gruber made a post about it.