No, the OP of the HN thread is from VictoriaMetrics (open source), he’s not Chris Siebenmann, unix systems administrator at the University of Toronto’s Computer Science Labs.
I'm very glad to know about VictoriaLogs issues, so they could be addressed quicker. If you hit such issues, then please file them at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues or publish an article highlighting these issues.