You're missing the point.

Deleting your post to keep their subreddit clean doesn’t mean this is a conspiracy

Spend a little more time offline (touch grass)

It's my content, not their's. A Proton fan boy who's not a big fan of freedom of speech. Perhaps you've been touching too much grass.

HIDIZS are shady. How shady? They've just hidden their business address on their website. Why? They're attempting to commit fraud.

To the OP: How did you find this article?

Hey @dang, I’ll reply to your comment here, considering you seem to have blocked replying on your sticking comment…

You can have as many rules and guidelines as you like, but you can’t go around stamping on people’s right to free speech, just because you don’t like them, especially when their comments aren’t offensive.

Also, referring to other people’s comments as “cheap”, as if you somehow feel your opinion of others and the way they express themselves is somehow more authoritative than say, UN charter on Human Rights (the right to freedom of expression) gives me the impression you have little respect for others.

“We want the later, not the former”. Ever heard the expression “‘I want’, never gets”? You appear to suffer from what I refer to as a “deluded sense of entitlement”. You have no right to try to censor people, or bully them, just because that’s what “we want”.

I’ve been HN reader for quite a while. I enjoy the community, and the debate, it’s not a stinking cesspit like Reddit, but your comments are a step too far.

>people’s right to free speech

There is no "right to free speech on hn". This is a moderated forum with rules and guidelines.

>it’s not a stinking cesspit like Reddit

In no small part thanks to the guidelines and moderation.

I know the title references the code’s age, but I didn’t post it because of that. I was busy reading the full 3 part article, and found it fascinating.

Looking at the Apache 2 license, it seems like they want to take ownership of your trademark and monetise it. Otherwise they would simply fork it and get on with making their changes. I would point them to the license and ask them what issues they have with it. Expecting you to simply give them control over your copyrighted work is outrageous, especially if you didn’t do it on company time. It’s probably best to get a lawyer to look at your employment contract if it’s unclear how far they think their control and ownership extend.

I personally think a 10% annual price increase on .org domains is outrageous, considering the current price of a .org domain is $10. I know it's not a lot of money to an organisation, but it's a huge chuck of cash to the company that is getting paid across the millions of .org sites out there. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this windfall.

re: https://www.keypointsabout.org

It’s because people don’t see the 10% as a lot. They go: $10 to $11 is nothing without realizing that it compounds. Try it yourself: pow(1.1 [110%], 7.27) ≈ 2. Every eight years, the price will have more than doubled.

Ok, $10 to $20 isn’t a lot. But what about 3 decades down the line? That’s now $174. You maybe could afford the $10 (maybe even $40), but could you afford to pay that every year?

I don't like dark mode.

So he's saying you have to have OCD to get anywhere, because that's what collecting bus tickets, or spotting trains is. It's a disorder. Calling it a theory is quite a stretch. And tacking on a bunch of "things" the theory says, is just stabbing at the dark.

"An obsessive interest will even bring you luck, to the extent anything can." - how I'd categorise the entire article. Ironically it's also an accurate categorisation of one's involvement in the Y Combinator Seed project: "to the extent anything can".

Let's encourage everyone to develop OCD for things that matter. Good luck with that.