[varyherb]

Genuine question, does this strike others as immensely off-topic? I'm curious if the parent commenter even opened the link. I'm sure there are applications of generalized knapsack problems (or dynamic programming generally) in options trading, but this isn't it.

[mrfox321]

This always happens. Post about X. Somebody replies with, "look at my Y". Usually off topic and trying to take advantage of the posts visibility.

[neximo64]

Are you a tourist on hacker news? This is almost the defining trait of a HN post.

[dheera]

I honestly don't mind "look at this cool related thing I built" comments, especially if it's free and open source and something I can learn from.

[dgellow]

If you check their profile you can see they created their account 4 months ago, so they are likely to be new here. No need to be disagreeable to make your point.