I never accused the article for being racist, even I was disgusted when this popular ytuber encouraged spamming pr on github just for a free shirt. The intention of re-posting an article ( which already reached front page of hn ) to hn when a similar post where an indian guy messing up big time by sending 400k notifications seems kind of suspicious.
It isn't exactly suspicious. I have noticed old news being posted again when it's related/similar to a currently trending news item. Let's just assume that it's an unfortunate coincidence that the people responsible for both fiasco were Indians.
However, these incidents do raise some important issues for both Github and India. This indicates that there is a prevailing situation in India that encourages young novice developers to come up with such low quality contributions to get a foot in the door in the industry.
I don't think it's that suspicious. Neither article highlighted the person's ethnicity in any sort of detail (I didn't even notice the ethnicity at all in the 400k emails post).
There are often multiple front page stories about mistakes or intentional problems caused by white dudes, and that's not generally seen as racism. Why should a similar coincidence with an equally-large population group be racism?
