I did read the text. It's humorous. But the question itself is no less important. And considering what happened with Torvalds' position this year, one might think it is a follow up to that question. So I think adding '(2000)' would definitely be helpful, if not just accurate.

OP means appending ` (2000)` to the title as a year-published annotation, to disambiguate from current events. This is commonly done on HN.