Based on the alternate links provided in other comments, the submitted link is an interview with Alex Cabal, and the interview does mention HN bringing a lot of

Based on the alternate links provided in other comments, the submitted link is an interview with Alex Cabal, and the interview does mention HN bringing a lot of traffic: >And it got featured on Hacker News, which brought in a lot of traffic. It got all over Reddit and a bunch of blogs and news outlets. And everyone seemed to really like the project and from then on I just kind of decided to make a hobby out of it and then here we are many years later and hundreds of ebooks later and hundreds of contributors from all over the world later, it’s become a very big and I’d say successful effort that people enjoy, so I’m very proud of that.