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by dcre 3955 days ago
You mean the game? Not sure there's much potential for confusion.
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The game is famous enough to create real confusion. Especially in geek social circles I guess a very high percentage of people immediately think about the game when seeing "Eve".
To be fair, the game is also basically groupware and spreadsheets and databases ;)

[especially for the corps that take nullsec seriously]

I haven't thought about it but, hey, you're right!
The game was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title as well.
I read "Sum" as "Sun" and was trying to figure out why there was a bubble with "salary" in it.
I don't even play the game, and I was immediately confused by the HN headline. I thought it was going to be a blog post about the history of the game and its first version.
There is a Python library called Eve for creating REST endpoints based on your database schema. I thought that was what this was since that is also in version 0.
When I clicked this article, I was genuinely hoping it was about CCP deciding to release some of the early/foundational code for Eve Online.
There's also one of Englightenment's supporting libs called Eve IIRC.