Aha, I see, the original URL in the HN comment was the org URL, which didn't redirect. https://github.com/googlei18n

I don't know why original poster was linking to that!

I misunderstood, indeed. Kind of funny that a bunch of other HN discussion then took off about how it was evidence that Google as an entire giant company was now terrible! Ah, HN.

Indeed. I actually linked the redirect to demonstrate it does indeed redirect correctly.