HN is a community, so this site is mostly about communication between humans, and empathy is an important part of that. People telling that it is not a big deal

HN is a community, so this site is mostly about communication between humans, and empathy is an important part of that. People telling that it is not a big deal, and that the story is hyped, are I think jealous of not having been featured in the same way. It's the media, so things usually get a bit distorted. But then we have stories about panda bears dying that make headlines as well. Even if you were a nine year old girl in Pakistan having written something that people here would recognize as valuable, something like writing a url parsing module in node.js, would you post a comment questioning her achievements? Think back when you were nine, wouldn't you have loved to hear about her? I remember that when I was nine and starting programming, I had heard a terrible hard time grasping simple BASIC programs. I went on to become a fairly capable developer, and event got my share of overblown headlines at 16. Nothing bugs me about a girl getting the same, and being so incredibly much wiser and inspirational than I was. Writing a calculator in C# at 9, studying for an exam that adults take, and then being incredibly intelligent and sensible about it is a big achievement. There are all these threads about CS education, codeacademy, etc... on here. Well that is what they are all about. What bothers me even more is people going all free speech when someone is questioning their post. Seriously? In their place, I would start questioning what compelled me to write such a post, and why this story caught my interest so much as to write a comment saying that earning an MCP is not worth mentioning.