Oh no. I happened to see the link to this guy's twitter earlier today in the HN comments (prob where OP saw it too, judging by timing), read the posts, and thou

Oh no. I happened to see the link to this guy's twitter earlier today in the HN comments (prob where OP saw it too, judging by timing), read the posts, and thought to myself "wow, i'm surprised how this has been posted to HN and seemingly hasn't garnered any response at all". In the few hours after I stopped procrastinating at work today, every post in that thread has went to multiple thousands of likes/share/etc. Guess that's my answer.