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Not sure why this is posted here but Cleanflight is great, it's used extensively on racing drones.

• jlgaddis 11y ago
  It was posted, I assume, because someone thought it was interesting. It made it to the front page, I assume, because lots of someones thought it was interesting.
  • sean-duffy 11y ago
    I guess so! It just seems strange to me because it's quite familiar and there's not been any particular release or news that would attract attention suddenly.
    • CraigJPerry 11y ago
      Yeah it wasnt a project milestone that prompted me to share the link, it was that I'd just had my first pull request accepted. I figured it's niche but probably amusing for the crowds here. Initially I submitted and it got zero votes, yesterday out of the blue I got a ping from the admins inviting me to resubmit and as an experiment they would give it a vote. It sat with 2 points for a while so I ignored it again. Then I started getting Twitter mentions from various HN bots. I came back and saw it had attracted a bunch of points. I don't know what the experiment is but the mods promoting a fairly wide of centre article for HN did encourage more votes.