How did Hacker News become the place where you announce a hack and all the comments are like "I don't like this because I feel it might be in a legal gray area"?
It didn’t, there are a few (shallow) replies which are downvoted to the bottom of the page. But perhaps when you looked at the page these comments were new and you were just unlucky.
The discussion about IP with these reverse engineered products in itself is interesting, although a bit repetitive with new clones every day.
> announce a hack
Since when cloning an open source project became a "hack" ?