Official annnouncement: https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
> If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.
Asahi Linux developers are frequent targets of abuse on Hacker News. Despite our pleas, the moderators have not taken effective action to improve the situation.
Overtly hateful content is often flagged on HN and not immediately visible. Unfortunately, when a comment is flagged and killed, its child subthread is not. That preserves the 'clean' image of the website, but the reduced moderation activity enables abuse to continue. Although you don't see those threads, search engines do. HN uniquely has a high page rank and low moderation, making it a prime target for bad actors to poison search results with abuse, bigotry, and nastiness. This isn't low-level trolling, but an organized attempt to destroy lives, including of developers in our communities.
Please demand change within your community."
Wow. Some of you guys need to touch grass if you're attacking FOSS developers.
Yeh, insulting people and throwing accusations in order to try change their opinion/behaviour has a high success rate in online forums.