That's a great piece of HN lore.

Same original article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103

Tarsnap is functionally unchanged as a start-up and Dropbox is $2.5bn in revenue

That was hilarious, thank you for posting this :-)

Why can't I see this comment when viewing the original article?

Do you have showdead enabled? The chain is flagged so I think it would be hidden by default.

Probably because it was flagged.