Thanks! The initial selection being an alert module had my thinking the page was broken...
That doesn't answer any of the questions. What am I supposed to be admiring, thinking about, using this for? Is this a tool I should adopt or test? Is this a new UI pattern to think about? There's no obvious context.
What you're talking about is advertising and advocacy. I personally don't mind less of that.
As a FE developer I appreciate the updates from HN when a bigger company releases something as OSS. It's nice to know what approaches others are taking to solve similar problems.