Nobody said it's news? Enough people found it interesting enough to upvote. Having your code used by a big company can be a nice recognition of your work. In this case the developer was happy about it unlike in other cases where code was used without permission. (Which I honestly expected when clicking the link!)
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?
> 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.
Just made an account to say this: Please do not be condescending in the comments. Multiple users found it interesting, which was why it was upvoted in the first place. If you do not, simply move to the next submission :)
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.
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.
