I get that HN randomises the order of the options on polls to remove positional bias, but for a numeric poll with a natural order like this it results in horrible UX.
(Apologies for the HN meta comment)
This is a good argument for rewriting HN in Rust.
Just in case some people think that's not a joke, Lobsters is written with Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/