I also want to add...how did this make HN front page?? Really, this has to be rigged; I've seen a plethora of better articles not even get 1 point, and how this got 7 amazes me...
You did nothing to deserve it. That kind of trollery seems unfortunately to be a cost of being on the internet. We banned those accounts. The comments had already been killed by user flags, so your fellow HN users were looking out for you. Most are nice, so I'll hope you'll do what the rest of us do, tune out the noise, stick around, and keep sharing your work.
Duck's back. Water.