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.

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.