Haha fair enough. This may be completely non sequitur, but my my life significantly improved when I stopped trying to denigrate other people in order to defend my own hurt feelings.
Outside of the fact that you were the one who posted it earlier, it seems unlikely that you were bothered by the previous posting. I haven't seen you on other reposts on HN saying the same thing. Therefore I am led to conclude that it's not the reposting, but the lack of credit, that upset you.
And if you're really bothered about reposting, on this internet, it's going to be a repetitive experience for you.
Also, if you question your downvotes on HN, you'll get more downvotes and engage in less conversations from which you can learn.
You were downvoted because your comment added nothing to the conversation, and came off as sour grapes. (You may not have intended it to sound so, but I read this as, "I submit essentially the same material 15 days ago but nobody gave me karma for it. waaa").
The HN karma system is the elephant in the room. Everyone knows it affects behavior, but you're supposed to pretend like it isn't there.
Outside of the fact that you were the one who posted it earlier, it seems unlikely that you were bothered by the previous posting. I haven't seen you on other reposts on HN saying the same thing. Therefore I am led to conclude that it's not the reposting, but the lack of credit, that upset you.
And if you're really bothered about reposting, on this internet, it's going to be a repetitive experience for you.
Also, if you question your downvotes on HN, you'll get more downvotes and engage in less conversations from which you can learn.