Mainly because they're funny, but it's also because I try pretty hard to make the comment more interesting than just "here's a pelican". In this case I used the pelicans to talk about the 128,000 token limit bug at "max" and share comparative pricing.

In the GPT-6 comment I included full visual comparison grids: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509#49806126

For DeepSeek v4.1 Flash I identified that the OpenRouter reasoning levels are mapped to a smaller set of levels for that model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090#49645591

Because hn has some kind of a community and not every comment is gold (see yours for example) and people are able to skip comments if they don't enjoy them?

It's an easy way to compare the coding and creative strengths of models. I prefer them over reading a tabular comparison of benchmarks which you have no real insights into.

Agreed. It was a creative and unique test for a while. Now, no offense to the author, it feels like every conversation about a new model is dominated by the pelican on a bike posts as they always become the top comment.

Karma farming by parent commenter and HNers’ tendency to upvote low quality content (not dissimilar to other social media networks)