Sorry if this is a silly question - I'm pretty new to HN. How can I see the parent thread?
Welp, AFAIK you can only click the "parent" hypertext at the top of the comment, which in this case requires four slow pageloads to access the OP.
I will therefore save you the pain.
It's been reduced to 99$ and it seems like it is a permanent reduction. I was thinking of buying it at 299$ because it had not been on sale for a while, so I'm very pleased this happened.
Their press release on it:
http://blog.23andme.com/news/one-million-strong-a-note-from-23andmes-anne-wojcicki/