NYtimes is probably the most reputable news source on earth. I incredibly doubt there's a significant number of NYTimes employees here.
At any rate, this article is an opinion piece along with plenty of other NYTimes articles posted to Hacker News. When judging an opinion piece the the pedigree and reputability of the newspaper matters much less.
Which isn't too surprising, all things considered, it just is what it is.
But given all too human "familiarity bias", it also isn't surprising that an American readership submits & upvotes primarily American sources.