[gyom]

It seems to me like almost nobody in the comments on HN believes his story to be genuine. And yet, this guy updated his blog to add :

"Wow, I really didn't expect this story to blow up the way it has. I've never had anything voted up on Hacker News before, much less gain the top spot. I'm still not convinced it hasn't all been a fever-dream."

which just supports the hypothesis that he's just bullshitting everybody.