There is plenty of those, they just don't have anyone tech-savvy enough to be on hacker news.

Every big company has interesting engineering stories. But i think sure HN woulndt upvote tales from Automattic

For sure, but the comment was about million dollar business which depending upon geography would be classified as either micro or small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterpr...

Have you ever heard the story of Darth Wordpressius?

I thought not. It's not a story the HN Council would upvote.