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My first contribution to Linux

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642 points vkoskiv | 1 comments | 06 Oct 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rvz ◴[09 Oct 25 17:30 UTC] No.45530672[source]▶
This is the easiest way to hire engineers with high quality open source contributions with a public track record.

All it takes is just to check that the commit shows up in upstream projects such as Linux and anyone can see the code, the reviews and the authors email in the AUTHORS file which verify that this contribution / patch is indeed from the author who committed that change.

This is a very old form of social proof which saves lots time and makes Leetcode redundant. (Which can now be completely cheated with LLMs.)

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1. fifticon ◴[10 Oct 25 14:42 UTC] No.45539638[source]▶
as others have warned.. a scary counterexample is the npm ecosystem, where people are gaming it with questionable npm package spam, to get the 'astroturf footprint' of being the author of widely installed packages. (which get their footprint by piggybacking on actual useful packages, akin to stapled-together law packages in the us congress).