Posted by twapi 22 hours ago
Related: https://nadh.in/blog/javascript-ecosystem-software-developme...
Its not that rare I think.
*small fintech with couple of billions in the accounts, not a startup, not a Fortune 500 company
The upvotes on the submission look legit to me, as does the submission itself.
I fail to understand why a ton of breathless blog posts about the process of AI-assisted coding are more interesting to HNers than some of the actual code (potentially, not claiming anything about it) written.
Maybe you or the GP could actually say what you think are "weird comments" and why you think this is being "boted"?
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[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] Why are people obsessed with star counts? I at least only star things to bookmark them, not vouch for them in any way. It does not seem unreasonable to me that 5 times as many people bookmarked the repo in the early days than are using it on npm. Also, npm is not necessary, the author shows at least 2 other ways to use it (direct download, link to GitHub pages) which will not show up in npm stats.
> Use of semantic elements is an interesting take. I'll give it a try.
> Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best.
> Good one. Presentation is good too. Thanks
These are the kind of comments you see from Indians paid to boost Youtube content.
Following the first comment you quoted...
> I love it. We need to see more of this.
...shows that the author talks about using a “Chase card abroad” in a previous comment [1], which means they cannot be Indian as Chase doesn't issue cards or have substantial operations in India.
I don't want to run around following specific comment authors back through their threads, but as an Indian by birth it is pretty hurtful to see this kind of drive-by casual characterization of an population in a space like this. It also seems to be pretty contrary to the HN guidelines (“Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.”)
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I think theres alot indian developers who are hacker news as well as on github and other forums.
pattern-seek for yourself: check their other comments; some seem legitimate which might suggest a human in the loop.
https://oat.ink/components/#form
Which actually makes sense: Oat's driving philosophy seems to be to use and enhance native controls as much as possible, and the date picker is already a native type on the input element.
there are other similar projects out, and i like them too.