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I published an open source library, it is not even v1.0 yet.
I kindly ask you to delete this comment.
But there’s nothing suspicious about having multiple nicknames. I don’t really get what they are talking about there.
Especially since it's looking and sharing for something as irrelevant as "HN name doesn't check out!"
This was to correct the doubt that the HN poster was not the same person as the GitHub user.
Conceding to you that a search can be useful, GP could've stopped at "The github is old and the person has other reputable projects". There was no reason to expand to the LinkedIn.
Only LinkedIn showed the link between the HN profile and the Github profile, because it lists both the project mentioned on the HN profile as well as the project listed in the Github profile.
That may tell more about the beholder than you think.
> Only LinkedIn showed the link between the HN profile and the Github profile, because it lists both the project mentioned on the HN profile as well as the project listed in the Github profile.
What if there was no link between the HN profile and GitHub, then? Would you conclude that, because you can't reliably link the HN profile to the GitHub profile (that was independently already trustworthy), this would make the project seem suspicious?
In other words -- Would your projects be more suspicious, if I, a total stranger, made Show HNs about them?
You're seeing my point, don't you?
I disagree with the idea that having multiple nicknames is suspicious, though. But, if that is something the poster believes, I guess I can see why they’d share it.
After the latest fun incidents with NPM and others, I just wanted to make a point how the way the project is currently "marketed" and distributed — and again, PERFECTLY fine for a first draft and "look what I built" — might stand in the way of it getting further traction.
And I did so in a very stream-of-consciousness way, trying to illustrate what I mean by "Trust & Safety issue".
All of the other aspects of identity are on the other side, the GitHub account with the real name, other projects, a reputation. So then, consider the Hackernews account to be some random, start the check-out at the GitHub, and you don’t see anything particularly suspicious.
I'm not sure how extensive your search was to find OP's LinkedIn, but it's clearly not in his HN profile, and that's enough to be unwarranted imho.
It was YOU, iagooar, who posted a "Show HN" here with a link to the following URL: https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa
This is a public web site hosted on Github, and it belongs to the Github user matisojka, whose public Github profile is at https://github.com/matisojka, containing, in public, the full name "[name-redacted]" — put there by no other than yourself!
You came here to promote your tool, asking for feedback ("Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful"), so YOU expect me to download and run YOUR software on MY system, and therefore trusting your software to not wreck havoc on my personal computer system.
And then flip out if I dare to do a quick, superficial cross-check on whose software I'm installing? Using only public information that you yourself put onto the Internet on public pages yourself?
Are you seriously suggesting that I broke into private web sites or computer systems in order to illegally retrieve information that was not meant for public eyes? Like, seriously?
"go through my private profiles" -> can you point at a SINGLE private profile that I went through? Just ONE?
You asked for feedback. Your literally wrote "AMA" — "Ask me anything".
And all I did was just that: asking you to understand that if you want this project to gain traction, that the nature of the way it is currently distributed, and the way that the Apple ecosystem treats it, might be a roadblock for this.
A roadblock for a project that I love and want to see succeed.
But how does one open the open-source source code?
I don't see your point, and I squinted very hard.
That is not the point of my original comment.
The point of my original comment was that downloading and using software from the Internet is a process that requires trust, at least if you want your project to gain traction, and that this specific project might have — at least to some people — road blocks in this regard.
I really want to see this project succeed, and thus gave feedback on this — what else is a "Show HN" good for, then?
For them to avoid that Gatekeeper warning, they would have to pay Apple $100 and then notarize their executable through Apple for their hobby project with 30 commits.
This isn't something we'd expect OP to do for this project.
Also the Gatekeeper warning is kind of a norm among developer tools. You can see it in much more popular projects. Just today `brew install --cask syncthing` triggered it when I went to open it. You're trying to be helpful but I hope you find this comment helpful as well.
Finally, all of that is beside the issue of digging up someone's linkedin profile and pseudonyms for the crime of sharing a tool with us that wasn't notarized with a $100 Apple permission slip.
I don't see an option for removal on the HN ui.
Same for 45834692 if possible, as this also contains the name.