Yes. Though effective communication involves knowing who you are speaking too.
I have a mental model about the typical HN reader. So, for example, I would not bother explaining the term 'container' in the context of application deployment. Even for devops who don't use containers, just hanging around here providers plenty of exposure to that concept.
But in this case...
I often err on the hand-wavey side when I don't have time to do the topic any justice. It was just a HN comment after all.