Ah yeah a friend sent that to me right after I created my version! I remembered making an “evil hangman” in class many years ago so probably a lot of folks will have the same idea.
I'm not sure if assuming malice makes sense. If the OP of this post was busy coding they'd likely have missed the earlier post. In fact I'd guess that except for some people most don't follow HN that religiously.
Side note, why might someone want to earn karma on HN? I know people on reddit sometimes do it to sell their accounts but I'd imagine it to be much more pointless here.
