You misinterpreted the sentence. They were saying that since the drives were bought with applecare, if one of them dies, he does not need to change the drive himself. Applecare to the rescue.
Quoting the statement and captioning it with "lol" is not contributing, at least not on HN.
It might have been contributing if you included the codinghorror link up front.
In response to said link, I will observe that it was written 1.5 years ago, and SSDs have been progressing very rapidly in both performance and reliability.
You ignored the last clause of the sentence. The author doesn't plan to not replace drives because they are SSDs, rather because they are covered by AppleCare.
You're right that that does make the assertion somewhat less ridiculous. But it still sounds like he's saying that he expects the SSDs to be more reliable than regular drives.
What he sounds like he's saying and what he is saying are very different things, and his reply sounds pretty different to me than to you, I think. The comment he's replying to is:
Looks amazing! Some real professionalism there! However replacing a hard drive is going to be a pain! Wonder if there is a way to modify the mac mini to allow a more accessible hard drive access?
So I read his reply as separate statements: a) They're all applecare covered, and non-vital so he won't need to muck around with maintaining the individual mini's, and b) They're running SSD's not HDD's.
You could have avoided the hail of downvotes if you had of included your conclusion that you read the applecare part but still understood it as he was saying the SSD's were more reliable. I don't think I've ever seen a comment of just 'lol' escape downvotes on HN, it's pretty clearly not good HN etiquette.
lol