Has to be. It's funny to me as a non engineer that is getting more fluent over time with engineering concepts, to notice that it's not just occasional comments but a good proportion of the posts themselves on HN that are somewhat in that vein. "Tell HN: We rewrote a compiler to run on a Miele dishwasher SoC", "Show HN: a new anti-DNS web browser that only accepts actual IP addresses as URL"