I think the question is raised because Firecracker was released years ago and has been posted and discussed many times before.

“Are reposts ok?”

“If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

as long as we're quoting the rules, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

assume that the parent's not saying "you shouldn't have posted this, it's old", but rather "i'm interested in firecracker, was there some new development i missed that prompted this submission"... if the answer is no that's okay, but if the answer is yes i'd love to hear about it.

Yeah, I’m actually curious if there’s a new major release or feature launch that I missed. I keep tabs on the project, didn’t think anything new suddenly happened.

I think the question is more along the lines of - was there another news, recently posted, that prompted this post?

Like for example if fly.io was announced yesterday, and they said they used Firecracker, then someone would submit this link about Firecracker.

So the original poster in this thread was wondering if there was something to that effect. Not decrying something being posted that was not new or already discussed before...

Would be interesting to see a project that unveils these "chain of influences" for tracking HN engagement on stories or even comments