The ~140 MB zip file containing the code itself (but not the commit message) is still downloadable from the Wayback Machine, as linked from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24996616.
Apart from the code linked above, I don’t think you’re missing any significant information that was on that archived page whose URL is now excluded. The screenshot at the top of this article matches what I remember of that page: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/githu....
To describe the screenshot in words, for the sake of those who prefer text to images for whatever reason: the commit was an orphan with no parent; it had no commit history. The message was as SethTro quoted it: “felt cute, might put gh source code on dmca repo now idk”. GitHub’s interface suggested the committer was https://github.com/nat, but there was no “Verified” label. The interface described the commit as having been created “1 hour ago” at 2020-11-04 05:00:26, the time of crawling.
Apart from the code linked above, I don’t think you’re missing any significant information that was on that archived page whose URL is now excluded. The screenshot at the top of this article matches what I remember of that page: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/githu....
To describe the screenshot in words, for the sake of those who prefer text to images for whatever reason: the commit was an orphan with no parent; it had no commit history. The message was as SethTro quoted it: “felt cute, might put gh source code on dmca repo now idk”. GitHub’s interface suggested the committer was https://github.com/nat, but there was no “Verified” label. The interface described the commit as having been created “1 hour ago” at 2020-11-04 05:00:26, the time of crawling.