No, because HN is the people he worked for - the people who use him winning the startup lottery to explain away all the losers of that lottery and keep feeding young, impressionable people to the startup destruction machine.
Pretty much that, I reckon. He’s warned anyone who would listen not to work as hard as he did while at Netscape. But at the same time, he did win the startup lottery, so there’s that.
Basically HN is him when he worked for Netscape and he doesn't like the reminder...