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We have the public commit history of the project. Feel free to go through each commit and point out what was stolen from you.
His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... people from Jordan are incapable of being kind? The whole approach he took here is just very poorly thought out.
Though yes, he seems to have some personality flaws. I hope he's working on them, but also don't think he should get a pass just for admitting them.
Really, this was a great opportunity to acknowledge and learn from aggressive mistakes while still running just a series A company. It was a blessing to the CEO to be highlighted now before the real weighty damage occurs. Unfortunately, it's pretty apparent to most of us and future investors that his public persona will get eviscerated if his company proceeds to ever become more in the public spotlight.
His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... people from Jordan are incapable of being kind? The whole approach he took here is just very poorly thought out.
Haven't been following this except for reading the post yesterday, but these words strike me as kinda vulnerable for him to admit (in the good way), and I want to applaud it. It seems like he's admitting that his environment shaped him, and his hustle mindset and "me against the unfair world" might not always be appropriate. * shrug * Though yes, he seems to have some personality flaws. I hope he's working on them, b…
The parting jab in the closing email is classic: "you said 'I will not be copying more stuff' " (OP didn't say that and given their current stance of not copying anything, I doubt they would admit that) "Arrive at new ways of doing things -- make new mistakes" Egotistical people always try to get the last word in. Even when apologizing.
His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... people from Jordan are incapable of being kind? The whole approach he took here is just very poorly thought out.
I think the point the founder was probably getting at was to recognize that he is no longer in a underdog / position of no power / have no resources (aka struggling kid from Jordan) but is now in a position of power and needs to reset his mindset and no longer have the 'do anything to win' mentality that it often takes to get out of poverty / fight as David against Goliath, etc.
Not sure why you would think he is implying anything about people from Jordan not being kind rather than just state you don't get what he's trying to get at.
I'm in the minority (I think?) of people who felt that while there was an overreaction from Replit, there was some merit in their original complaint. I think that the situation has escalated though partly due to the approach of the former intern here, who - while rightly calling out the non-apology aspects of the apology is aggressive themselves now that the power is with them courtesy of the public exposure and gene…
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 - June 2021 (1234 comments)
(Edit: I'm adding some text here because people have been linking to this comment.)
This story was at #1 all day yesterday, in contradiction to HN's normal rules. That is, we bent over backwards to allow this story to have much more attention on HN than it would have gotten in a normal case. That's why it got 4000 upvotes and 1300+ comments and was the #1 story the entire day (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-06-07).
Why did we do that? Because we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That is literally the first principle of HN moderation, and we stick to it strictly.
Less moderation does not mean no moderation, however. It does not serve the community, or the quality of HN, to repeat the same thing all over again the next day. Not having the same story repeat itself two days in a row is standard HN moderation.
Downweighting follow-ups in order to avoid repetition, is a bedrock principle of HN; otherwise the front page would be dominated by the same few stories every day. There are lots of past explanations about that at these links:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
We bent the rules considerably to allow the story to keep a prominent position it would not otherwise have had, for an entire day. I don't think it would be proper to do the same thing two days in a row, and indeed many users were emailing us to complain, when they thought that was about to happen.