I'd love for you to explain how. I've never met him personally. Reading internal blogposts is a very common thing that people do.

It feels like a second order name drop (perhaps a prestige drop?) by immediately indicating your access to internal posts and identification of him by his username. I've been aware of him before but not enough to know his HN or common username!

Must be exhausting to be that cynical.

I'm not actually cynical, I'm just being straightforward in the sense that there aren't enough famous figures in my line of work for me to namedrop any of them.

Lots of people here on HN have contact with "famous" people. It's not usually a big deal.

It shouldn't really be surprising that an article about Google (a company with 145K full-time-employees) might attract a few people who know people. Isn't that why we read HN?