Why have people downvoted this? The linked statement doesn't give any background on why he's leaving so it's not an unreasonable question.
And if you happened to put your real name on your profile then you absolutely cannot mention anything like that.
This is the elephant in the room that everyone wants to know.
I doubt this story would even have made the front page of HN without the outing by Rap Genius.
the way to deal with this kind of bullying is to call them out on it. show that what you are is normal. hence my post. because bullies aren't going to attack someone who has status and confidence, who shows that the behaviour they were criticising is reasonable.
sure, some trolls are simply wrong. but if they're wrong you can show that. there was nothing wrong here. just a bunch of cowards who saw a chance to bash someone else in the name of being offended (and i suspect, depressingly, with the hope that the person they were being offended for would recognise and reward them - because famous entrepreneur on hn. eugh).