Comment by dang

In general you're right, but this story was guaranteed not to lack for upvotes. Indeed it went to #1 as soon as we buried the other one as a dupe.

I realize it's not a big deal, and it's actually a great sign about the HN community that almost no one cares much about karma. But we do want to try harder to give the original submitter credit, because then the incentive is aligned with what's best for the community: finding good stories that haven't been posted yet.