Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You're right.

Thanks for all that you do.

It's helpful if you want to avoid the problem OP and many, many others are experiencing.

So you're going for the "incorrect but helpful" angle?

Why not just go for "correct and helpful" instead? It's only a few extra sentences, and comes across much more believably.