Cool. But he seems to only have posted 13 times and none is "begging for help". Am I missing something?

I misremembered, this was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484

Somebody else had posted his request for help here, but the comments are as I remembered them (though the comment that was first at the time is now the second thread).

Reply outside of the edit window since those comment threads are still moving around.

It was this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609