Responding to inflammation with firestarter is exactly the wrong thing to do. You should respond with flame retardant instead, or not at all. Do the site guidelines not make that clear?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlUsually quotation marks in a title act as insulation. I can see how that wasn't the case here, but it's still your responsibility to be a good citizen of the community, rather than breaking the rules and pointing a finger.
If you were responding to the title, you shouldn't have hijacked the top comment by replying to it. I've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052700 now.