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[doublepg23]

HN seems to be putting you through the wringer, I for one am excited you guys made this and plan to open source it- it looks like a fantastic project.

[typon → doublepg23]

Why not? Incredible claims should have equal amount of scrutiny. I am glad that HN has a default skeptical bias - we don't want to be swept up in frenzies. If anything, HN is still relatively prone to these frenzies from time to time.

[nullspace → doublepg23]

Additionally to the “why not” sibling comment, I suspect nathanmarz can take it :). (Early Apache storm user here.)

It takes strong conviction to work on something like this for a decade.