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did i miss something or why are there TWO (2) "magically reverse engineer REST APIs" projects on the HN front page right now? is there some offline beef going o

by swyx 2y ago

did i miss something or why are there TWO (2) "magically reverse engineer REST APIs" projects on the HN front page right now? is there some offline beef going on? (screenshot in case this goes away https://x.com/swyx/status/1874762725383188502 https://x.com/swyx/status/1874762725383188502)

Quarrel 2y ago
Presumably, because the closed source one got some traction, so people are pointing out the open source alternative.
littlestymaar 2y ago
Likely because of this comment[1] in the other thread which made people submit this link, and when multiple independent people submit the same link in a short period of time you're very likely to end up on the front page (this exact situation happened to me once) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568121
- AbuAssar 2y ago
  Yeah, that's where I got the link from.
TechDebtDevin 2y ago
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- jereees 2y ago
  I put swyx up there with sama in the category of extremely smart people that give me the ick for reasons I cannot articulate
  - swyx 2y ago
    honored i guess. sorry about that.
mylastattempt 2y ago
Offtopic and meta, but, you share a screenshot using Twitter/X? That's really bizarre to me. That is all, just had to say that.
- swyx 2y ago
  how is it worse than photobucket or imgur