"it's a red flag if an employee ever stole food for a meal / camped at a hospital while homeless" isn't.
Upper-class a-human inanity unrecognizable by 90% of the populace. I wouldn't believe it was a real person making an honest argument if I hadn't self-made my way from inner city Buffalo startup to Boston at Google, and found out how sheltered people can be.
I don't want to be overly dramatic, but this has genuinely lowered my view of HN as a whole, and I'll think twice about reading the comments here from now on.
If I were to show this to any well-adjusted person I know, they'd probably think less of me for even being in the same community and profession as the person who wrote that comment.
I also feel incredibly heartless for adding my own "be careful" message to this person's eager response to someone's plea for help, but there it is.