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Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub?

I was thinking about hooking up Karpathy’s autoresearch tool to Lucidrain’s repositories as a way to let someone smart pick what’s interesting and new in ML research, and I learned that he is off github, says his account was canceled and is ‘pretty sure there’s something wrong at github.’

Any backstory / information on this?

( 4 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub? by byschii on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:41AM (#47298217)
Lucidrains (Phil Wang) GitHub account has been suspended

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009749

Re:Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub? by vessenes on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:58PM (#47301994)
Thanks. Similarly no comment there. Weird.
Re:Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub? by segmondy on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:04PM (#47298909)
AI probably flagged it or someone made a bogus request. I have seen this happen numerous times, it takes folks having to fight it to get their accounts back. If the person has no strength or interest in fighting it as in this case, then there it goes.
Re:Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub? by runjake on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:53PM (#47316105)
According to Phil's GitLab page, GitHub suspended his account "without warning or reason".

https://gitlab.com/lucidrains