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This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727321

• defen 14y ago
  That's the conversation I was thinking of, yes.
• notahacker 14y ago
  HN certainly wasn't the only one ragging on Summly. http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-developer-cry http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve... d'Aloisio seems to have a attracted disproportionate mainstream press coverage and and unusually critical tech press attention considering his app's relatively low budget and short life, even for a youngster. Being expensively acquihired by Yahoo might not change that, but I guess the monetary reward at 17 gives him the last laugh