I'm not sure the assumption is that he's coming across HN for the first time rather than making an alt/stop lurking to post this. Or even that someone in tech t

I'm not sure the assumption is that he's coming across HN for the first time rather than making an alt/stop lurking to post this. Or even that someone in tech their entire life must have already had a HN account before today. HN is big, but it's not so big that statement is even remotely reasonable.