alt Hacker NewsThat comment doesn't evidence cheating, it reiterates that they submitted the result prematurely which was already admitted in the comment that your link was responding to.
EDIT: removed a lament that people don’t read comments they respond to, in case this violates the site rules.
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LtWorf • today at 4:02 PM
Insinuating that I didn't read is against this website's rules.
Using a throwaway account to reply is suspicious to say the least.
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So, the charge was that they submitted a build specifically tuned for clickbench
The defense was that it wasn't specifically tuned for clickbench, it was just an early incomplete build that happened to only support exactly and clickbench queries and nothing else...
Doesn't feel like much of a defense to me. At best it's benchmaxxing if not clear outright cheating