We've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41835040, since that one has more info from (and was posted by) the project creator.

Sorry brson! It's on our list to implement credit-sharing for submitters of the same link...

Is there a way of getting the points back?

If someone really cared about it I'd do something manually, but fortunately most HN users don't care.