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Meanwhile I can read other Bluesky posts without logging in. So yeah, I'd say it looks like robpike is explicitly asking for this content to not be public and that submitting a screenshot of this post is just a dick move.
If there was something controversial in a post that motivates public interest warranting "leaking" then sure, but this is not that.
He did share a public version of this on Mastodon, which I think would have been a much better submission.
By "not publicly viewable", I mean that bsky.app (like Twitter) seems to demand login before showing the post. I don't see any sign of Pike restricting access to it.
Plenty of paywalled articles are posted and upvoted.
There's nothing in the guidelines to prohibit it https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Nothing private about it, it’s on his Bluesky account:
https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s
When trying to browse their profile:
Meanwhile I can read other Bluesky posts without logging in. So yeah, I'd say it looks like robpike is explicitly asking for this content to not be public and that submitting a screenshot of this post is just a dick move.
If there was something controversial in a post that motivates public interest warranting "leaking" then sure, but this is not that.
He did share a public version of this on Mastodon, which I think would have been a much better submission.
https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/115782101216369455
IMO the current dramabait title "Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI" is not appropriate for either.
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By "not publicly viewable", I mean that bsky.app (like Twitter) seems to demand login before showing the post. I don't see any sign of Pike restricting access to it.
So I think your flag is unwarranted.
https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/robpike...
Bluesky says and looks like it is demanding it because of user account settings. Public user profiles are publicly viewable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389747
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