That's nice, but I don't see anybody "needlessly punishing people for open-sourcing their code". Enough people found this project interesting enough for it to a

That's nice, but I don't see anybody "needlessly punishing people for open-sourcing their code". Enough people found this project interesting enough for it to appear on the frontpage of HN. Other people are obviously confused and curious why this is the case. It's not like there's one and only "toy audio-codec project" on github, you know.