Aside from the general policy on HN of not complaining about "tangential annoyances", I don't even see the issue.
It's relevant to the central argument of the article, so I don't consider it a tangent (assuming that one even cares about the so-called policy).
It's relevant to the central argument of the article, so I don't consider it a tangent (assuming that one even cares about the so-called policy).