If you are eating the baked shit and enjoying it, and a subset of shit-eaters might also like your baked shit recipe, then yes - it would be wrong to say "nobody will eat that shit".
I suspect HN readers won't see enough value in your baked shit recipe for it to reach the front page - sorry. But bake away!
Why do you call what the author did shit? It is resurrecting an old tape driver for archival purposes. It may not have much commercial use, but anyone having those old tapes will appreciate it.
Yes? The person who needs it is using it. Other people who need it (anyone who wants to archive tapes of that kind) now can, too.
> Second, another post on hackernews about how AI helps you code is not AI hype?
Do you think it was written with the intent to specifically hype AI, rather than to report on a passion project?