About a week ago (8 October), a blog post I wrote about deleting Facebook went semi-viral on HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164188 . Nice. 12k hits in 24hours.<p>Yesterday a very good friend of mine sent me this link https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/personaltech/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-account.html containing an article, extremely closely related to the blog post I wrote. It was written 2 days after I published mine.<p>Any thoughts?
It's possible that the writer saw your post and was inspired to make his own. It could just be a coincidence.<p>Either way, I think the content between your article and his is different enough that it makes no difference. It's a similar topic, sure, but there don't appear to be any signs of plagiarism. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by someone else's post to write on a certain topic. If that were wrong, we would only ever have one point of view on a news event. It's only a problem when your specific phrasing is claimed by someone else as their own.
I haven't read either, but from you saying you 'think they copied' it to rococode saying 'there don't appear to be any signs of plagiarism' seems quite a gap. What makes you say they <i>copied</i> it?
Contact the Times:nytnews@nytimes.com or if you have extra cash, a lawyer. The author of the article may be scrutinized by management but no compensation or apology will likely result.