I get the feeling you read the outrage headline and assumed the worst.

In practice, the company held a party, invited a local professional tattoo artist to give free tattoos, and the CEO said "if you get a tattoo, I think that's worth an interview". HN is blowing this up to be worst case scenario, but it was just stupid messaging and optics. The company was trying to get people to come to their party, not demand company tattoos before anyone can submit their resume for consideration.

Dude, go touch some grass.

Don’t trust your feelings.