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> 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 fro

by danaos 7y ago

> 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. Hmm. I guess citation needed?

raldi 7y ago
This seems to have been either a complete, sensationalistic fabrication, or at best, a totally negligent misread. See for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 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.
- minimaxir 7y ago
  Scroll down to the very bottom of that discussion thread and unfurl the flagged threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301
  - raldi 7y ago
    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.
    - minimaxir 7y ago
      I was in that thread while it was active: it took awhile for those discussions to become "detached, downvoted, flagged, dead".
      - raldi 7y ago
        That's not what the capture at the Internet Archive appears to show: http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycomb...

by danaos 7y ago

raldi 7y ago

This seems to have been either a complete, sensationalistic fabrication, or at best, a totally negligent misread. See for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 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.

minimaxir 7y ago
Scroll down to the very bottom of that discussion thread and unfurl the flagged threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301
- raldi 7y ago
  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.
  - minimaxir 7y ago
    I was in that thread while it was active: it took awhile for those discussions to become "detached, downvoted, flagged, dead".
    - raldi 7y ago
      That's not what the capture at the Internet Archive appears to show: http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycomb...