Oh wow I assumed he was anonymous. So his LinkedIn says he's done a lot of web development gigs. He's had a GitHub account for 15 years but hasn't shared any pr

Oh wow I assumed he was anonymous. So his LinkedIn says he's done a lot of web development gigs. He's had a GitHub account for 15 years but hasn't shared any projects and there's lot of suspicious activity in previous years. His X account allegedly has 11k followers but his timeline gets almost no engagement. Now are you ready for the smoking gun? He told a nearly identical story on Hacker News back in July and managed to raise $765. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714641 - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-patricks-fight-for-stability https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-patricks-fight-for-stabil... It's like I said earlier, whatever you incentivize, you'll get more of it. He's apparently been doing this since 2014! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854029 - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&query=author%3Agremlinsinc&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&qu...