<story><title>A confession exposes India’s hacking industry</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contrarian1234</author><text>Why are they seemingly underrepresented on Github?&lt;p&gt;When I check out a library I often peek at who made it. My general demographic &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; is&lt;p&gt;- 40% some European or American&lt;p&gt;- 40%  some dude in Siberia,&lt;p&gt;- 10% Chinese hacker in Shenzhen&lt;p&gt;- 10% some cryptic Japanese hacker&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always a bit surprised there are very very few South East Asians, Latin Americans, Koreans, Indians</text></item><item><author>ilrwbwrkhv</author><text>This has been there for a long long time. I remember Edward Snowden went to India to learn hacking.&lt;p&gt;India also has an amazing open source culture. Was quite shocked to see how high quality they were, since the ones you hire from the large outsourcing companies like Infosys etc are so so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>The same reason that only 10% are some &amp;#x27;Chinese hacker from Shenzhen&amp;#x27;. Indians &amp;amp; Chinese are invested in their local ecosystem, so you are unlikely to see their efforts reflected in the type of western-repositories that we&amp;#x27;re looking at.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, India is still a poor country. So open source is produced as a by-product of the commercial work you do, but it does not have the maturity of a made-for-open-source product that ends up having dubious commercial viability.&lt;p&gt;The main point of open source in under-developed economies is to put out a positive signal for hiring. So the second you&amp;#x27;ve done just enough, you are looking to escape the hell that is &amp;#x27;unpaid open source work&amp;#x27; and move to corporate code that might also be open-sourced. Also, the best candidates (IITians, flagship university kids, Bangalore undergrads) are hired through on-campus hiring procedures. So efforts go into improving their signaling towards those avenues, rather than publicizing your work to the entire world.</text></comment>
<story><title>A confession exposes India’s hacking industry</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contrarian1234</author><text>Why are they seemingly underrepresented on Github?&lt;p&gt;When I check out a library I often peek at who made it. My general demographic &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; is&lt;p&gt;- 40% some European or American&lt;p&gt;- 40%  some dude in Siberia,&lt;p&gt;- 10% Chinese hacker in Shenzhen&lt;p&gt;- 10% some cryptic Japanese hacker&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always a bit surprised there are very very few South East Asians, Latin Americans, Koreans, Indians</text></item><item><author>ilrwbwrkhv</author><text>This has been there for a long long time. I remember Edward Snowden went to India to learn hacking.&lt;p&gt;India also has an amazing open source culture. Was quite shocked to see how high quality they were, since the ones you hire from the large outsourcing companies like Infosys etc are so so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darnir</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about the others, but there are indeed people like me in India developing and maintaining non-cool, not on Github, free software. If you&amp;#x27;re here on Hacker News, there&amp;#x27;s actually a pretty good chance you&amp;#x27;ve run, directly or indirectly, code I&amp;#x27;ve written without even registering it.</text></comment>