Don't know whether this is a repost or not but... What do you say people? Far as I can see, HN looks different, simpler and conceptually it doesn't try to include everything on this earth...
This 'rip off' was much more evident before Reddit got big (the first time) and redesigned the voting buttons. Before that the designs were almost identical.
The News (Social bookmarking) pages on our web site are pretty similar as well. Clean minimalist layouts with similar functionality are going to look similar whatever the style influences - well apart from the CSS.
Peter Pachel probably stopped by recently and noticed how much the comments are becoming like Reddit, and felt compelled to make the connection and post it on Mashable.
I just checked the wayback machine and Reddit appears first in mid 2005, HN in Feb 2007 (though the article with id 1 here seems to have been posted in October 2006). It's fair to say that Reddit wasn't inspired by HN.
[+] [-] EwanToo|14 years ago|reply
But reddit obviously aren't bothered (and give you all the tools to build your own reddit), so why should anyone else be?
https://github.com/reddit/
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Use of the word 'nerd' from a tech blog?
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Feels insulting every time, but it seems to be common practice.
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