I'm struggling to feel sympathy here:

a) He owns a top-of-the-line phone, yet complains about being poor.

b) He owns a phone that makes it trivially easy maintain backups in the cloud, and yet didn't think that his livelihood was worth backing up.

c) There's no real point to this post, yet it was published and submitted to HN.

d) He attempts to egocentrically link this post to his own humility.

Nobody deserves to have their property stolen, and it sounds like Peacock is in a particularly tight bind, but this is hardly enlightening journalism or something "that good hackers would find interesting".