I feel like you're reading a different HN than I am. Can you link some concrete examples of someone 'making fun' of either losethos's mental illness, or his OS?

have you turned on showdead and seen some of his recent comments here on HN yet? seriously, you seem more interested in getting up on a soapbox and making wild generalizations about how the community 'makes fun of mental illness' - something I can't say I've seen much evidence of, quite the contrary in fact - than in actually familiarizing yourself with the guy in question.