You are parsing it incorrectly.
Can I be 'kik'-ed.
Kik being the operative word here not the slur to which you refer.
Can I be 'kik'-ed.
Kik being the operative word here not the slur to which you refer.
In English, words ending in a single short vowel followed by a single consonant double the consonant before adding '-ed' to form the past tense. That's the grammatical rule.
I still can't tell if this project is by someone with bad grammar or some 4chan-bred bigot trying to make a double entendre, but either way, it's fucking obnoxious to see it on the front page of Hacker News.
Your posts come across as ascribing malice to a fairly trivial (IMO) mistake. Politely pointing out that the name could be misinterpreted to be a derogatory term would have been a been course of action.
Of course, because you can't read, it's obnoxious to be on the front page.