If frontpage is the indicator (which isn't nearly close to perfect), what I gathered all these years is that HN hates most of big tech companies, of not all.
I've never felt like the community hates the big tech companies... most of us are trying to grow something up to be big one day... BUT it is controversial when we see bad behavior, or potentially bad behavior. The discussions here really become useful in forming my own opinions.
I don't have any issue with this particular article (or this kind), people should be critical to any company anyway.
What shows the "hate" more clearly is when there is "good" news or just an neutral announcement from/about these companies, where you will see most of the comments being negative to a point they are often irrelevant to the article itself.