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Comment by jpswade | Hacker News Reader

This website is primarily a news website. That's it's role. Sure, recognition is great on Twitter, but why did it have to leak here? What's the news here? "Developer was happy that open source code was being used"? Is this the story here?

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> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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Some of the most popular submissions are regularly reposted old links so it doesn't have to be news.

The interest is that an open source developer had randomly discovered his library is used (and properly cited) in one of the most popular gaming systems today. And he's sharing his delight/surprise, which implies that this is not an everyday experience for many non-curl open source developers.

Open Source libraries get used all the time in popular gaming systems, what makes this one so interesting?

It's not the library itself that is necessarily interesting, but open source culture in general. The number of comments and debates in this thread and on the original tweet seems to indicate that whatever you think is obvious about open source attitudes and expectations, may not be so obvious after all.

Whatever you think is obvious to me, isn't. Have you considered that might be why I was asking the question in the first place?

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