I agree with your analysis based on my own last night (on another HN post to this same gripe on reddit, before this blog post). OP received a lot of echo chamber support in the subreddit, and recommended to post to HN, so here we are.

The work is very amateurish, the "paper" would be a strong reject if I were still peer reviewing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wijo3e/i_liter...