The article talks about Hacker News comments "quoted in this article, that I am having trouble finding now on the live version of the site." As far as I can tell, the comment they're referring to is
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053930, which appears to have been edited years after it was posted (judging by Wayback Machine snapshots), along with one of the replies, to redact the name of the person involved.
Edit: And now this post is marked as a "dupe", even though it doesn't appear to have been posted on Hacker News before. Weird.