My response exactly.

Mine too! Just when you thought you'd seen everything LaTeX could do (and we see a lot of it at Overleaf[1]!)

If the author is reading these comments, what motivated/inspired you to do this?

[1] https://www.overleaf.com

I actually submitted this 13 hours ago, not 1 hour ago. Take a look at my profile. Curiously, the front page shows 1 hour.

Regardless of that discrepancy, fvrghl's post was still prior to mine, as it's from a day ago. I'm not sure what's going on with the time stamps.

Check that. 17 hours ago. Still doesn't explain my ability to submit the link.

"Interesting" posts that don't make it to the front page are sometimes revived.

I once received an email asking me to resubmit a link to something considered interesting, as part of a kind of trial for whether it should be the norm on HN. The behavior is now built in, so you don't need to interact with the system for your link to come back if it's "interesting".

It's a bit of a long read, but well worth it IMO.

My understanding after talking with Rauchwerk today is that the boards are shipping out on the timeline they've outlined on the kickstater page. The only divergence from that schedule is that Kernel Hacker Backers will get their first board in 5-9 days and their second -- which is a bonus board -- in mid-October.