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by tedsuo 5315 days ago
I gotta admit I'm confused why these things are popular on hacker news. I've written several "growl" notification tools, usually I just re-write it on top of whatever ui toolkit the project is using rather than try to use a library. It takes less than 20 minutes to write one sufficient for whatever your use case is, and it works exactly how you need it to.

Not saying this or any other implementation is bad and you shouldn't use it, but why does hacker news get so excited every time one of these shows up?

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Because hackers are lazy. Some say all inventors are.