"What a silly move."

More like, what an infuriating move. Why didn't he take the well-considered advice of the people in the comments? Or post a comment with his intentions so that someone could talk him out of it?

I don't think that's limited to this particular Ask HN.

It's a pretty good object lesson in what happens when you ask for advice and then proceed to completely ignore it. Kudos for posting the results though.