??? This isn’t on the linked page.

Wrong thread. The correct one is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767371

How does that even happen? HN software hiccup? Or what?

Probably my bad.

I guess:

Click on the HN discussion > Click on the article > Notice the weird CMS error > Copy the sentense > Click back > Click back again by mistake(?) > Click on the discussion of the wrong article (?) > Paste the sentence > Notice that HN eat the emoji > Add the version in brackets.