Overall, HN has always been supportive of original, on-topic, relevant, insightful humor. That means though that any kind of meme-ish, repetitive, or obvious joke is going to fail.
Basically HN in a great place for techie jokes that are essentially unique to this one tiny corner of the internet. The 4 or 5 we get per year are often some of the best content.
Right, I would say there's a difference between a low-effort joke/meme/pun vs a biting critique done as a joke.
It this case, the criticism was, Apple products will narrowly optimize for something pleasant (well-restedness) at the cost of what you really want (getting to work on time). This is a very common complaint[1], and it's kind of witty to joke about them doing it by accident here, when it's what they deliberately do in other contexts.
[1] Examples: making the URL bar look nice and minimal at the cost of you knowing where you are in a site, removing the scroll bar at the cost of knowing where you are in a page or how to move it, making the mouse unusuable when charging just so you don't have a hole on the top.
Basically HN in a great place for techie jokes that are essentially unique to this one tiny corner of the internet. The 4 or 5 we get per year are often some of the best content.