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Intuitive Explanations
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Intuitive Explanations is a personal blog at intuitiveexplanations.com about math and programming. Since 2018, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project16 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2021-06-07
- How did Replit respond to this blog post?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-08
- Kalyn: A self hosting Lisp compiler for x86-643 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
- Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Your (non)apology is insincere and it is quite obvious that you don't really mean it. Looking at the latest communications with the intern[1], you are 'giving him permission' which isn't yours to give. And further, you have quoted them out of context. Neither of these actions indicate that you are in any way remorseful, nor do you see what you are doing wrong. You haven't let _us_ down, you are only harming yourself…
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on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project”Submitted Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project as a story · 4022 points
HN discussion> working on a project that does pretty much the same kind of thing they're doing Radon outlined why this isn't true. [1] > basically spreading some of that knowledge you gave them and making it packaged and accessible not only to future contributors of their project, but to all competitors and genuine copycats out there. It appears as if you're advocating that Radon should've treated the open-source code as if it w…
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on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project”Submitted How did Replit respond to this blog post? as a story · 300 points
HN discussionI tend to agree. It seems like the author of the article already addressed this accusation [0]. I admittedly am biased in favor of OSS authors but I tend to agree with the points he made there. Namely, this product doesn’t clone any design decisions that aren’t already public. More importantly, Replits differentiator isn’t the ability to run code in browser (which tons of other projects already offer), it’s the poli…
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on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project”Submitted Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021) as a story · 192 points
HN discussionNB, Replit is the outfit that did this: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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on “On Leaving Facebook”Submitted Kalyn: A self hosting Lisp compiler for x86-64 as a story · 40 points
HN discussionIt doesn't matter if he used replit they don't own the code you write with it and it doesn't matter if he used to work there they don't own former employees either. If you remove the irrelevant details it can be shortened to A personal created what could be construed as a replit competitor this seemed like a bad idea which only makes sense if it's a bar owned by the mafia. Furthermore they didn't respond "with a hea…
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on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)”Submitted Kalyn: A self-hosting compiler for x86-64 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionImportant to read this first: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/#how-did-repli...
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on “Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021)”Submitted Linear Algebra: Intuitive Explanations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOh, internet drama. I love internet drama! So I looked it up as I never heard this story before. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ Looks like this CEO isn't of good character after all. He looks almost like a jerk when looking at the end of the story. Even in his last email he tried to get his (obviously wrong) point. He never apologized for the things that mattered most, only tried to extinguish the so…
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on “Replit's in-browser coding AI”Submitted Calculus: Intuitive Explanations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/#how-did-repli... At the bottom of the original blog post. He put his project back online and it is still up: https://riju.codes/
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on “Replit's in-browser coding AI”Submitted Kalyn: A self-hosting compiler for x86-64 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might be referring to this: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ I'm like you, but every company gets one mulligan from me, so this is replit's.
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on “Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe most concerning part about that whole interaction was this small detail (here's the full post: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ ): In the earlier emails, Amjad Masad (the CEO) offered to hire the intern, was pleasant, etc. And then just a few threads later, when things turned sour, he insulted the former intern, calling him the "most demanding intern we've ever had." It's deeply telling about a per…
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on “Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhen I hear Replit, I remember how the CEO tried to kill an intern's pet project. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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on “After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?”Submitted Kalyn: A self-hosting compiler for x86-64 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://intuitiveexplanations.com/assets/Resume.pdf - author's resume is pretty impressive. Glad to see he's doing well.
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on “Anyone who looks at this code instantly becomes insane”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis guy isn't a mold-breaking radical, he's just a garden variety sociopath https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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on “He was called a 'terrorist sympathizer.' Now his AI company is valued at $3B”Submitted Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPublic opinion on Amjad shifted quite a bit in 2021 when he threatened to sue a former intern for his open-source project. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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on “He was called a 'terrorist sympathizer.' Now his AI company is valued at $3B”Submitted Replit Attempted to Kill an Open Source Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think you meant safest from a security perspective? Because replit sued open source competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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on “Ask HN: What is the safest way to replicate Repl.it like sites?”Submitted Intuitive Explanations – Calculus made simple [pdf] as a story · 1 points
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