I wrote about it in this comment which was up voted to triple digits. My story is buried in a sub comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599228

Here is almost the exact same comment but specifically in the context of WASM and tree structures receiving the maximum number of downvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657549

It’s weird but apparently insecurity among software developers is super common. It’s why I left a career writing JavaScript and refuse to go back.