It could be argued that it is you who needs to read the HN Guidelines. If anything, your comment directly contradicts the Guidelines, while the OP's post does

It could be argued that it is you who needs to read the HN Guidelines. If anything, your comment directly contradicts the Guidelines, while the OP's post does not and has clearly garnered significant interest based on its content otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page. Here is the relevant Guidelines entry: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."