So, the guy has reverse engineered the cause for a perceived slight, and his response is to block readers of HN from reading his stuff, even though HN readers have nothing to do with his slight, real or imagined.

I had nothing to do with this (whatever this is), and he decided to show me his symbolic bare ass.

A more effective response to ... whatever it is ... would be for him to sit in a cafe and feel really, really sorry for us.