> In April, when a story about Katie Bouman, an M.I.T. researcher who helped develop a technology that captured the first photo of a black hole, rose to the front page, users combed through her code on GitHub in an effort to undermine the weight of her contributions.
The thread began, "If Katie was a man do you think people would be going through git histories and their published papers trying to determine if she is being over-credited for her achievements?"
And it's not referring to others on HN; as the replies make clear, it's about people elsewhere.
The comments on that story were nothing like the impression any reader would get from the reporter's description.
Again: "users combed through her code on GitHub"
Reality: One user, in a detached, downvoted, flagged, dead comment invisible to 99% of visitors to the site posted a link to an image analyzing her GH contributions, and was immediately and widely rebuked.
Hmm. I guess citation needed?