Hall of Fame

"correctly emphasized multiprocess sandboxing as crucial defense-in-depth even with Rust, matching how browser security evolved"

"clear-eyed about Go’s runtime complexity, Rust’s tooling advantages, and the non–horse-race nature of Go vs Rust; good functional-abstraction performance example"

"very accurate about the need for real generics, the limits of interface-based patterns, and how Go would likely integrate generics"

"excellent historical and technical analysis of managed vs unmanaged languages and library ecosystems; prediction that multiple specialized languages would coexist has been strongly vindicated."

"nailed that JS would remain the main client-side language, with wasm as complement for performance-critical and game-like workloads"

"accurately forecast AOT constraints, need for devirtualization/final, and performance-driven design that Swift ultimately adopted"

"on both Rust’s web-readiness and the Rust+LLVM -> WebAssembly path; both aged extremely well"

"correct about browser architecture and performance trends; his points on complexity serving speed were borne out by Quantum and later work"

"spot-on assertion that C++ memory unsafety is fundamental, not just a legacy C quirk; strongly validated by industry’s move toward Rust"

"correctly emphasizes that language-specific package managers succeed in practice despite “superior” alternatives being available"

"correct that richer type-system machinery could express data structures like doubly-linked lists, but that it’s questionable whether it’s worth the complexity; Rust still hasn’t taken that route"

"correct defense of Rust’s long‑term importance and early description of the performance/safety goals that later materialized"

"excellent concrete demonstrations of where operator overloading is a huge win (graphics, linear algebra"

"skepticism about 1998’s “best GC” boast was justified; modern HotSpot GCs are extremely strong compared to OCaml’s"

"nuanced and forward-looking take on compiler optimization trade-offs and iteration/bounds checking"

"excellent, technically accurate explanations of UB, LLVM, and Rust’s interaction with them; his perspective matches how things evolved"

"technically precise corrections about Direct2D vs X, Skia/Cairo, and WebKit vulns; his framing of GPU 2D rendering has aged well."

"spot‑on remark that many JS engine dangers are in bindings, where Rust safety helps—very much aligned with current thinking"

"good insight that lack of a clear, easy standard leads to a confusing ecosystem, as seen in crypto pre-NaCl and RNG libraries."

"fundamentally right about relative memory safety of JS vs C++; slightly overconfident with “never been done” phrasing about server-side JS engine exploits"

"technical explanations and expectations about Servo’s goals and web performance largely matched what actually got built into Firefox"

"accurate technical description of WebAssembly being designed to run within JS engines and leveraging their JITs; aligned with how Wasm actually evolved"

"good design instincts about lazy singletons and the virtue of side-effect-free imports, aligning with later trends in other languages"

"GPL wouldn’t have blocked Rust; true but partly hypothetical—Rust did end up thriving on permissive LLVM as he preferred"

"right to emphasize the importance of UB for C performance and that C is the wrong place to try to eliminate it; might underplay later success of safer systems languages"

"consistently solid takes on Telegram’s weaknesses, decentralized messaging being unsolved, and iOS vs Android security"

"correct historical context and prediction about how “offensive security” vs “cyber” would be perceived in the field"

"excellent technical framing of the MTProto issues, correct link to later attacks, and prescient recommendation to use Signal"

"excellent, detailed and accurate analysis of legal and practical risk of unauthorized testing and XSS; strongly validated"

"excellent technical explanation of how accredited rules actually work and a very accurate take on the limited wealth-building value of angel-style investing for non‑rich people"

"accurate comments on how rare competent crypto audits are and how weak FIPS validation is as a security signal"

"accurately framed the legal stakes and correctly foresaw GPS monitoring becoming normalized and expanding beyond the corner case"

"accurately situates the work in prior art, notes that blind spoofing is mostly academic and that RPF is less universal than some claim; still correct in 2025"

"quickly surfaced the SPLC retraction, correctly signaling that verification was a problem"

"captures DF’s nature as deliberately unforgiving, where “don’t do X or it crashes” is just another learned rule; this remained true until the Premium UI made the on‑ramp gentler"

"very clear-eyed about HPKP’s limits, local roots, and the real power of a state that can control endpoints"

"accurate context on OpenSSL auditing, BoringSSL, bug classes, and realistic risk framing"

"solid technical/political framing of Rogaway’s aims and the field’s stakes"

"nuanced take on approval statistics; accurate structural description of FISC; realistic about secrecy and the limits of cosmetic reforms"

"clearly articulated that Yahoo’s operating business was valued below zero once stakes & cash were accounted for"

"strongly aligned with where expert consensus ended up: don’t overcomplicate GPG, and use something better than PGP for advanced secure comms"

"early and correct call that Founder Institute is a bad deal for founders"

"good meta‑guidance on not second‑guessing individual treatment decisions; aligns with how mental‑health discourse norms have evolved"

"accurate reading of the bill, correctly downplayed Techdirt’s more alarmist claims, and right that CISA’s real‑world impact would be incremental rather than transformative"

"accurate on legal risk, market pricing of vulns, and how bug bounty scope/rules would need to evolve"

"immediately recognized the significance — “Netscreen VPNs were backdoored” — and treated it as the day’s real security story"

"consistently accurate on the bill’s content, process, and likely impact; correctly skeptical of hyperbole"

"clear explanation of PKRNGs and the essential point that PKRNGs have no sane use other than escrow; fully aligned with later consensus"

"sharp demographic reading of the YC list and prescient recommendation of Brené Brown and Annie Jacobsen"

"spot‑on relay of Pinckaers’ observation about Dual_EC output exposure and correct “no practical reason” judgment about using Dual_EC"

"correctly punctured the “fail at startup, jump to VP at Google” fantasy; realistic about how careers and titles really work"

"solid insight into why security vendors often have worse code quality; realistic take on disclosure norms and Project Zero’s role"

"solid instinct against porn affiliates, emphasizing exploitative practices and brand risk before that became as widely discussed"

"clear explanation of NTP as an amplification vector; consistent with how DDoS has evolved"

"correctly recognized the enormous practical impact of Dual EC in Juniper and updated publicly; the GCHQ‑specific attribution remains speculative"

"clear-eyed about terminology issues and CTF structure; correct that CTF-like framing matters; also candid later in life about why the business didn’t work"

"accurate high‑level picture of federal tax/spend asymmetries and how states like Michigan have historically subsidized others"

"solid long‑view commentary about city restaurant cultures; not strongly testable, but his framing of “peak vs median” quality matches how NYC/Chicago/LA scenes have since been talked about"

"describes PSD-to-code service workflows accurately; no strong prediction about Figma"

"accurately restated the plan to split into three focused companies; more summary than prediction, but the structure indeed happened as advertised"

"mostly meta, but his point that crypto can thwart state search powers even when the law allows them is conceptually sound and borne out by events"

"accurate about the nature and timing of the trainer/full CTF; implicit optimism about long‑term platform was too rosy, but technically on point"

"captured that many engineers barely think about PH; slightly underestimates how seriously non‑technical founders/marketers would later take it"

"likely right that the evidentiary case is strong, but the implied “dead to rights → straightforward conviction” hasn’t materialized because a decade later there is still no US trial"

"accurate snapshot that Rambus/CRI owns key DPA countermeasures IP and that many solutions are patented; still broadly true over the decade"

"apt warning that “ecosystem” rhetoric can be used to justify expropriating value from others; less predictive, more conceptual"

"nailed the emergency‑manager/state role and the financial/engineering consequences of corrosive water"

"nailed the fate of the app and correctly emphasized video evidence and officer‑specific histories as what would matter"

"clear, accurate description of SourceForge’s “seizing” behavior and its implications, exemplified by GIMP; prescient about the reputational collapse of SF"

"nailed the “no samples, no generics” tactic that ended up central to the FTC case"

"introduced Random123 and counter‑based RNGs, which went on to be important in HPC/GPU contexts and influenced how we think about parallel RNG."

"nailed the central role of surveillance and how old-school crime scripts fail under modern policing"

"accurate account of LeMay stripping turrets and shifting to incendiary area bombing; matches mainstream history"

"correctly anticipated long Tu‑95 life and Tu‑160 difficulties"

"excellent, technically grounded account of Venus’s deep physical constraints and the realistic niche for cloud‑top bases; has aged very well"

"called out Save Page Now + API integrations and a Wikipedia bot for external links, all of which materialized in essentially the predicted form"

"nailed SES as the first big reused-booster customer"

"accurate prediction that Tiles would be revenue-irrelevant and killed once they annoyed users"

"points people to “Save Page Now” and Webrecorder, both of which turned into central tools in the web preservation ecosystem."

"accurate and technically detailed on Telegram’s plaintext storage, WhatsApp vs Signal security, and the broader implications of server‑side histories"

"nailed Telegram’s architecture and long‑term privacy properties; correctly contrasted it with WhatsApp’s possible/actual E2E stance"

"clear articulation of priorities (#1 mass surveillance, #2 targeted attacks"

"clear explanation that compressing encrypted data better would imply breaking the cipher; prediction that AES will remain safe for decades has been borne out so far"

"spot-on warning about false sense of security and other camera types"

"early, effective use of fuzzing; correct identification of a recurring bug class; representative of a broader shift that proved crucial"

"excellent and prescient analysis of revocation and short‑lived certs; docked slightly for recommending StartSSL/WoSign, which were later distrusted"

"nailed D‑Wave’s irrelevance to Shor, early recognition of RSA‑1024 weakness, realistic QKD critique, and the need for PQC"

"concise, correct contrast with the Debian bug and good pointers to Dual‑EC research; matches the later technical picture"

"released a checking script immediately; exactly the kind of responsible, practical follow-up that’s still standard today"

"correctly ties this to an existing ecosystem of “IT security” products that normalize TLS MITM; that enterprise practice is indeed the template here"

"consistently skeptical of AV and TLS interception; his broader thesis that AV often degrades security was reinforced by later research and incidents"

"right about anecdotes not being evidence, though a bit dismissive of lived experience"

"Savannah as an adware‑free host backed by FSF has indeed stayed ethically clean, though it never became a mass‑market replacement"

"very prescient about Certificate Transparency’s importance, but strongly advocated HPKP, which was later abandoned as a dangerous design"

"correct that older adults still need sleep and mostly lose the ability to maintain it, not the need"

"good nuanced take on non-binary compatibility and accurate Linux versioning context"

"technically correct explanation that the gun is fixed and the beam is deflected"

"correct description of Xilinx EasyPath as binning/cost‑reduction rather than a “hard” ASIC option"

"environmental and process‑chemistry concerns remain entirely valid; the Superfund example remains a textbook cautionary tale"

"sensible skepticism about exercise evidence and about casually switching off a working treatment"

"accurate historical examples of Nintendo on Japanese PCs; useful nuance that holds up"

"excellent analysis of alternatives to Free Basics, who actually pays for data, and the colonial dynamic; predictions match India’s later policy and market evolution"

"strong grasp of alternative, net‑neutral access models and long‑term systemic risks that regulators later encoded in policy"

"India’s sensitivity over maps and border disputes has only grown since; good comparative contextualization"

"practical, correct explanations about CSS styling vs native controls and sharing real-world recording workflow; reflects realities that stayed true"

"realistic assessment of the difficulty of a Rust JS engine and Servo’s reliance on SpiderMonkey; still true"

"nuanced defense of experiments and Pocket’s rationale; slightly underestimates how much the fast-tracking and bundling would damage trust, but broadly aligned with what we now know"

"excellent, detailed anticipation of resident compilers, fine-grained dependencies, incremental compilation, and automated test reruns—very close to modern practice"

"correctly skeptical that UWP tied to Windows 10+ would gain enough desktop reach; that strategy largely fizzled"

"correctly judged that Comcast’s “managed IP lane” was more like on‑demand cable than a general plan to replace the open internet, which is how it played out"

"technically correct and forward‑compatible explanations of Sony’s PS3 crypto flaw and of OCSP/CRLSet weaknesses; those revocation issues remain"

"excellent, durable explanations of asymptotics, D‑Wave’s specialization, BQP vs classical, and why scaling qubits alone is unlikely to change the picture"

"coining “Silicon Flotilla” was a nice encapsulation of a meme that never became practical"

"highlights Facebook’s lobbying/astroturf campaign and points to “rogue social network” concerns; both proved highly relevant in the years that followed"

"promoted savetheinternet.in and correctly treated this as a broad differential‑pricing/net‑neutrality fight, not just about one product; that framing matched TRAI’s eventual regulations"

"right about discount wars normalizing over time and prescient on the long-term exploitation of delivery workers"

"early, correct spotlight on Facebook’s MITM behavior and on the scale of Facebook’s lobbying"

"very accurate early diagnosis of the coming backlash against globalization and open borders"

"correct diagnosis of why tip‑jar/bundled micropayment journalism generally fails; events with Kachingle/Flattr/Blendle bear this out"

"very good call on Drupal’s market squeeze and “focus on stability” recommendation, which matches what Drupal actually did"

"correctly framed the long-term shift from fine art to pop/digital forms as the main cultural reference point"

"recommends *Still Alice*, which remains a respected, accurate portrayal of Alzheimer’s"

"very accurate big-picture call that the standard would remain conservative and many popular extensions would stay as such; essentially described how Haskell evolved"

"clear, technically accurate explanation of initial vs final encodings; correctly anticipates the move toward mtl/tagless-final over heavy Free/Prism/Inject machinery"

"correctly framed proofs as targeted, composable tools rather than something you apply to entire programs; realistic about Coq’s impact on day-to-day programming."

"correctly anticipates using ML itself to search over smaller hyperparameter/architecture spaces—AutoML/NAS in spirit"

"correctly notes the Core output option and its relation to STG; this remained true and relevant for understanding GHC"

"accurate and durable framing of free monads as a structured, “fruitful corner” of the Interpreter pattern and a way to factor binding vs. effects"

"good explanation of Elm’s static record semantics and optimization potential, which partly materialized, and an accurate comparison to Closure Compiler"

"correct that automatically grown heuristic layers were not yet as powerful as humans in 2015; deep RL later closed that gap"

"excellent summary of what placebo can and cannot do; aligned with current consensus and pointed to durable, high-quality sources"

"very accurate use of IO‑psych research that later guided big‑company practices: work samples + validated cognitive tests; correctly flags legal considerations"

"correctly grounded the debate in robust IO psychology findings about intelligence and work-sample tests"

"correctly connected the article to the robust Fundamental Attribution Error and applied it self-reflectively"

"accurate on genetics, light, and social advantage of being aligned with morning‑centric norms"

"solid judgment about the nature of genuine medical progress vs hype, aligning well with how oncology has evolved over the decade"

"correctly highlighted the systemic problem of overhyped university press releases misrepresenting research"

"clearly identifies early California regulatory restrictions as a barrier to Google’s robotaxi ambitions, which is precisely how the story played out for much of the decade."

"clear, international-law informed explanation of why maps matter politically; strongly validated by China’s later behavior toward companies and maps"

"demonstrates real, ongoing use of stars for navigation; consistent with niche but persistent practice today"

"solid context about cranks and the “good” vs “bad” framing; not especially predictive but accurate and helpful."

"good catch sharing a topic that became central in the next decade"

"right about candidate-gene failures and the complexity of gene–environment interplay; too quick to dismiss Hsu’s blog as scientifically unserious given how much of his broad genomic-prediction picture has since been borne out"

"submitter; no visible prediction or strong stance in this thread"

"very accurate call that the ideas would be ported to TypeScript, and that types+autocomplete would matter more to adoption than macros"

"nailed the story that once an async HTTP/HTTP2/WebSocket stack solidified, Rust web development would “get there”"

"excellent mapping of encapsulation/composition/interfaces/SOLID into idiomatic Clojure; still a very good mental model"

"prescient, nuanced view of NR as a reference with dubious code"

"correct reading of the C standard and clear explanation of why the behavior is a real bug, not “correct but odd”"

"accurate context on page‑ and cacheline‑crossing penalties and their evolution"

"correctly identified ES6 modules + npm as the benchmark and highlighted binding semantics Python still lacks"

"saw essentially unlimited growth headroom and expansion-by-acquisition, which played out very closely to reality"

"correctly saw European postal services improving under e-commerce pressure, including lockboxes"

"correctly projected licensing/insurance/traffic‑code style regulation for drones"

"confidence in Flask’s trajectory and pointing to dev docs aligned with how well Flask has held up"

"nailed real pain points, built a solid tool, and anticipated the need for a static CMS with a GUI; but underestimated existing/coming competition in that space and stuck with Python 2 longer than hindsight would recommend"

"technically accurate on CT, XP issues, DNS-01, rate limits; aged extremely well"

"correctly predicted that distro/Snap packaging would make the bootstrap/`--help` issues a non‑issue"

"accurate about the nontrivial difficulty of HTTPS on large ad‑heavy sites and provided solid technical counterpoints on filtering and HTTPS"

"good anticipation of per-device credentials and 2FA-like approval for new devices, akin to modern passkey flows"

"correctly characterized the UK as already functioning as an offshore‑style jurisdiction with low corporate taxes"

"solid EU‑law context and correct note about digital reproductions and harmonisation"

"correctly explains that you cannot change the license of someone else’s MIT code; others can revert your GPL changes"

"spot‑on technical caveat about Android kernels and containers that matches later reality"

"accurate short‑term observation that Cavium was still making MIPS64 and realistically noting uncertainty about continuation, which is what happened as they later pivoted toward ARM"

"mostly correct on why people forgo insurance; “no taxes on assets” is a bit oversimplified but directionally fine in context"

"perceptive critique of math‑heavy tutorials and early, practical thinking about sequential decision rules that fit how tools evolved"

"correctly emphasized that GTD isn’t universal and that makers need large uninterrupted blocks, aligning with Deep Work / maker‑schedule thinking"

"correctly flagged it as a likely non-replicable small-N study and suggested a plausible diagnostic-bias alternative"

"on‑point explanation of state‑by‑state legal restrictions and why publishing a unified online DB is non‑trivial legally"

"good proposal for tightening disclosure policy language; industry moved in that direction"

"historically right about Sesame Street’s mission and the need to push kids just beyond their comfort zone; somewhat overstated that Elmo dominance means they’ve “lost sight” of that mission"

"excellent anticipation of long-horizon online experiments and the limits of short lab games"

"early advocacy for using IPython/Jupyter + matplotlib for this exact workflow; strongly aligned with how the ecosystem evolved"

"early, accurate pointing out of isotopic inconsistencies and Rossi’s prior fraud record"

"good characterization of D3’s learning curve vs payoff, consistent with its long-lived popularity"

"accurately described the economics and limits of Contributor/micropayments and drew correct broader conclusions about ad‑funded web economics"

"accurately converged on Hailstorm relying on downgrades/jamming rather than magical 3G/4G crypto breaks; good technical reasoning and humility about what’s unknown"

"solid clarifications about Oracle JDK vs OpenJDK and Oracle’s role in running OpenJDK"

"good noticing of spelling/quality differences; slightly too generous in calling the evidence “pretty compelling” at the time"

"excellent articulation of why image size matters, with concrete examples that match later industry practice"

"very prescient distinction between well-defined success in disease/poverty reduction vs. fuzzy and contested goals in “fixing schools,” which closely matches how CZI’s science vs. education work has played out"

"precise explanation of `rename("

"warning about insane numbers of transitive deps and preferring fewer deps looks very wise in the era of left-pad/event-stream and supply-chain concerns"

"correctly argued that random writes matter more than people think for real workloads like logging and config/fsync"

"the “negative usability cascade” description matches a decade of A/B‑test‑driven, metric‑myopic UI simplification and feature‑hiding"

"accurate and detailed about Tcl’s UCS-2 limitations, which remained relevant for years"

"good quantitative intuition about beacon airtime and its impact; later real‑world Wi‑Fi behavior in dense environments bears this out"

"practical workaround and note about upcoming logging driver improvements; aligns with how the ecosystem evolved"

"clear description of HN re-upping mechanics and the tradeoffs; the system evolved but the reasoning and transparency hold up well"

"timeless, correct moderation instinct to avoid religious flamewars and bikeshedding; very much in line with how HN has continued to be run"

"good operational handling of anonymity and logistics; reflects an approach HN has kept using for sensitive AMAs"

"quickly institutionalized the “(audio"

"strong moderation, clear explanation of constraints and intentions around the AMA format; not making predictions, but notably good meta‑analysis of the thread itself"

"meta-comment on titles as the “bikesheds of HN” remains perfectly on point"

"correctly interpreted the article, flagged the title-driven misunderstanding, and connected it to group‑scale reasoning issues."

"description of HN moderation and anti‑gaming mechanics has held up well against a decade of scrutiny"

"clear, accurate description of HN’s semi-manual ranking system; not so much a prediction as reliable institutional knowledge that has held up"

"not a prediction, but the moderation intervention aged well as a clear articulation of HN’s norms around civility and benefit of the doubt"

"accurate, detailed explanation of HN duplicate-handling logic; purely meta but correct and still relevant to how HN works"

"correctly characterizes the book’s scope as backend-only and improves context by adding the year; consistent with how the book is still regarded"

"surfaces the context, adjusts the title and submission so the historically important content gets proper attention"

"accurately emphasizes Mathematica’s significance and the value of engaging with the substance of the essay despite Wolfram’s quirks"

"applies HN’s title policy appropriately, acknowledges the bait aspect, and adjusts; good stewardship, though not predictive per se"

"good, still‑relevant call to keep HN from devolving into schadenfreude mobs rather than intellectual analysis"

"correctly diagnosing HN’s growing negativity problem; prescient as a meta-observation about the community"

"good defense of the article as valid cultural criticism and of HN carrying such pieces; consistent with how HN evolved"

"hinting YC Research announcement was soon; accurate; YC Research did launch, though it later narrowed."

"responsive moderation; not a prediction, but improves the historical record"

"proper moderation on duplicates and later on guideline violations; not predictive but aged fine"

"admits/moderates the title issue; process-focused, not predictive"

"just link curation; no prediction either way"

"minor meta-comment about prior submissions; consistent with HN curation but not really predictive"

"helpfully updates the link; no substantive technical claims to grade"

"useful context and links, but no real predictions or bold claims to evaluate"

"usefully fixed the URL to a better primary source; no real predictive content"

"neutral meta contribution, just fixing the URL; no real predictions"

"remarkably accurate and detailed prediction of how “scientific racism” and extremist ideas would metastasize online and into tech communities"

"correctly ties console shelf‑life to long‑observed industry patterns"

"accurate warnings about relying on closed startups and strong insight on why personal card creation matters more than shared decks"

"SCP‑184 link taps into the enduring internet‑horror/fantasy framing of KWC‑like spaces"

"good distinction between “intelligence as goal‑achievement” and social perceptions; correctly argues that very smart agents can wield outsized power, and that it’s right to be afraid"

"accurate description of the meta-optimization problem and a lasting concern about theory vs practice; resonates with later worries about benchmark overfitting"

"strong recommendation of Nick Lane, whose stature only grew"

"clear explanations of spectral gaps, undecidability, infinite systems; consistent with later understanding and literature"

"good evolutionary and practical insights into communal child‑rearing and parental sleep, in line with later anthropology"

"highlighted ancient “robots” and automation in the *Iliad*, an angle that has since become popular in discussions of proto‑SF and ancient technology myths."

"overstated but directionally correct about YouTube’s commercialization, ad-chasing, and the burying of small amateurs under optimized “creator” content"

"extremely accurate analysis of centralized vs decentralized messaging UX and why decentralized systems wouldn’t go mainstream"

"solid analysis of incentive structures, Angular 2 being a near‑rewrite, and Redux/Flux direction"

"good insight about starting private and going public, reinforcing why GitHub would remain sticky"

"early push for automatic HTTPS via Caddy anticipated later mainstream patterns"

"accurate clarification of Caddy’s behavior; Caddy’s approach to auto-HTTPS proved influential and successful"

"early recognition and promotion of a practical ACME tool; aligned with where auto‑TLS went"

"very accurate on the trajectory of hash research and the limitations of SMHasher; even if MetroHash itself didn’t dominate, the analysis aged well"

"succinct, correct description of fluoride toxicity mechanisms and treatment"

"correctly emphasized that firms strongly pursue cures because of competitive dynamics; later HCV cures and gene therapies support this"

"remarkably accurate meta-prediction about the lifecycle of IT movements and buzzwords"

"realistic description of sloppy industry practices that helps explain how such bugs ship; continues to match reality"

"clear, technically and politically accurate statement that secure global key escrow isn’t possible; strongly validated by a decade of failed proposals"

"correctly insisted this is a system-design bug, not user stupidity, which matches both Apple’s later behavior and current UX/security thinking"

"strong defense of Arduino’s accessibility; in hindsight, entirely appropriate for a one-off hobby watch that never productized"

"nailed the now-canonical “D3 for math, React for DOM” integration pattern years before it was mainstream"

"very early and accurate framing of D3 modules as math/drawing utilities to be composed with React and other frameworks"

"positive on codemods as part of the upgrade path; this approach became a widely adopted pattern in JS/TS tooling"

"“will never raise at anything close to a $9B valuation again” was exactly right"

"well-argued case that anonymity is practically impossible and would likely exacerbate old-boys’ networks rather than help newcomers"

"accurately corrects the record that quantum effects in D‑Wave had already been experimentally evidenced before this Google paper"

"strong, early accessibility stance against `user-scalable=no` that matches later standards and browser behavior"

"solid, still‑correct advice that Mac devs should happily bypass the Mac App Store and sell directly"

"identifying Craft CMS and Perch Runway as strong, flexible field‑type CMSs was correct; Craft in particular became a major commercial CMS; Perch, less so"

"good distinction between selection vs education, and realistic view of MBAs’ signaling role"

"nicely articulates representativeness as the key reason for larger venous draws, directly anticipating why Theranos’s core promise failed"

"very accurate description of overconfidence, hedge fund life cycles, and the difficulty of beating the market over time"

"accurate, nuanced description of trigger capabilities and development direction; still broadly correct a decade later"

"accurate statement about minor-release timing—~1 month is indeed common and matched 9.5.1"

"accurate description of how to get near in-memory behavior in Postgres via unlogged tables and shared_buffers, consistent with later best practices"

"nailed the real learner behavior: very few will clone someone else’s game for hundreds of hours; most will pull guidance for their own projects"

"spot‑on about how class actions usually work and whose pockets they mostly fill; criticisms of the Spotify settlements followed exactly this line"

"realistic prediction that the faxes would just be trashed and have no operational impact"

"very accurate early recognition that WP’s small share and low loyalty made its future “bleak,” which is exactly what happened"

"nailed the CoffeeScript vs ES6/Babel trajectory and read the JS ecosystem correctly"

"good, durable reasons for learning Ruby: elegant syntax, strong metaprogramming, big production users—still true a decade later"

"clear articulation that regulation is mainly to protect vulnerable, not the savvy – which mirrors how gambling/loan and now loot‑box policies are justified"

"promoting chruby as a simpler alternative matched where a lot of Rubyists ended up"

"right that digital distribution reduced labels’ historical logistics role; but underestimated how durable and valuable labels remain as PR/playlist/financing machines in the streaming era"

"very clear, technically accurate analysis of dynamic analysis limits and why sandboxes/appliances cannot reliably catch every such attack; aged extremely well"

"technically accurate and still-current explanation of HF direction finding and Wullenweber-style systems"

"clear, accurate explanations of TTP-based attribution and realistic threat models that held up very well"

"defense of the blogger as technical rather than propagandistic matches the blog’s subsequent trajectory and reception"

"good foresight about corporate / policy proxies using 451 to clarify blocks to both users and machines; this has in fact happened in some products"

"good attention to real-world carrier constraints; correct to emphasize durability, though skeptical on printers that did prove practical elsewhere"

"accurately highlighted how identity and institutions matter for history, search, clinical-trial transparency, and why the proposed citation scheme was flawed"

"accurately described ALA privacy policies and loan‑record purging that continued and even strengthened"

"excellent and still-relevant critique of over-precise numbers and lack of statistical rigor; matches later literature on overstated stove benefits"

"CRC32C/builtin pointer aligned well with mainstream practice"

"valid challenge to simplistic “human nature = always want more” claims"

"realistic concerns about follow-on sanitation and disease issues, consistent with later public-health focus"

"accurately contrasted ULA’s lunar‑fuel concept with SpaceX’s reusable‑booster strategy, which is exactly how things played out"

"strong grasp of reuse economics and the need for many reuses plus new markets to make the business work"

"correctly pointed out that regulators, specifically the FTC, do and would treat KS commitments seriously"

"right that early convnets had no explicit 3D concept or object semantics; later work adds some of this but it’s still an open frontier"

"excellent diagnosis of Super Tucano politics and “myth of tech progress,” borne out by events"

"system‑level analysis of terror, overreaction, and civil‑liberties loss closely matched subsequent events"

"highlighted the demon core in a way that matches how the story has since become central in public nuclear lore"

"accurate and forward-looking about DC’s lead issues and regulatory understatement; fits subsequent national revelations about lead and Flint"

"normative, but correctly centers reform and evidence-based approaches; consistent with later criminology consensus"

"most structurally insightful comment: recognizes that normalizing zero‑rating forces every innovator to cut deals with ISPs, subverting the Internet’s permissionless model; exactly in line with later regulatory and academic consensus"

"correctly framed PayPal’s limitations and the rise of domestic mobile wallets, foreshadowing UPI-era dynamics"

"accurate focus on differential pricing as the real issue and good understanding of the Indian regulatory frame"

"highlighted Balwani’s damning email and cited the Rice study on finger‑prick variability, both central issues"

"very clear on the structural risks of zero‑rating and on the need for general NN rules; correct about regulators treating this as a broader pricing issue, though some “no turning back” rhetoric was stronger than what we’ve actually seen"

"strong, detailed argument about networks profitability and why SDN wouldn’t commoditize Nokia’s core gear; spot‑on about brand licensing timing"

"savvy reading of how “owned by a person of another Party” interacts with corporate structuring and domestic mandates"

"consistently realistic on recursive descent dominance, parser generator limits in big compilers, and maintenance issues with many IR dialects; these concerns remain very relevant"

"clear, correct explanation that downloading was legal if Springer was authorized to distribute; distinguished initial download rights from later copying"

"realistic about x86 ports, clear on the rights tangle, and accurate on AROS/kickstart developments"

"sound, now-standard strength training advice: start light, focus on form, address mobility"

"provided correct Intel cache layout; also surfaced the amusing twoskip slide"

"practical warning that yacc/lex are rarely used in large, modern compilers due to error‑handling issues; matches practice"

"fair historical analogy to Microsoft, though Apple’s trajectory didn’t mirror MS’s slump"

"historically correct about spam’s long pre-internet history; mainly background"

"highly accurate description of the economics and realistic deployment of proofs vs model checking; predictions match industry and research practice."

"very early, accurate emphasis on continuations, effect handlers, and the limitations of monads in dynamic / imperative contexts"

"good call‑outs on CAP misinterpretation and solid, still‑relevant tooling recommendations like JGroups"

"accurate and unusually clear-eyed assessment of Yudkowsky/rationalist culture and solid explanations of what philosophy and feminist epistemology are actually doing"

"historically informed, balanced view of FP vs OO and Clojure’s design; caution about large FP systems was reasonable given the time"

"ahead of the curve on systemic definitions of sexism and on how “rational” stereotypes perpetuate inequality"

"right that mechanical safety and operation would become formally regulated, similar to cars"

"accurate legal framing of Oracle v Google’s limited broader impact; correctly saw adoption of OpenJDK as an available and sensible path; nuanced, mostly borne out by events"

"correctly stresses that large economically important systems have high essential complexity and super‑linear cost, even when decomposed."

"correctly notes that social science isn’t uniquely bad compared to human-facing medical research and that single surprising studies are unreliable"

"concept of fibers was vindicated by Project Loom, but tying it to Quasar/Comsat as *the* solution didn’t age as well"

"labels AI‑risk concerns a “religious apocalypse” and claims “super‑intelligent people are terrible at solving problems involving other humans”; both empirical claims about intelligence/power and the complacency about AI risk look weak in retrospect"

"remarkably prescient about TS’s role as a standards-aligned superset, the importance of compile-to-JS, optional types influencing JS, and WebAssembly as a complement not replacement"

"nailed the Patreon + planned-business model via CGP Grey, which became a template for sustainable creators"

"clearly identified the US‑only, online‑only, opt‑in nature of the data and pointed to a substantive critique"

"excellent combination of practical advice on the sort-key trick and a highly accurate sociotechnical prediction about deployment friction and niche tools; aged extremely well"

"nailed the Fermi-style skepticism about missing super-geniuses; that matches how the hype collapsed"

"correctly zeroed in on the main blocker: rehashing all existing data"

"extremely accurate structural analysis of why C/C++ needs a language-level package manager and how it would change practice"

"nailed the critical MD5 threat-model distinction that became standard security practice"

"clear, technically correct taxonomy of HLE vs LLE and JIT vs static recompilation that aligns with how tools actually developed"

"notes that Android had already shifted from Dalvik JIT to ART’s more AOT‑ish model, and implicitly that AOT Java isn’t “just an interpreter”; this lines up with later Java AOT and native‑image work."

"good explanation of why standards allow pathological implementations; that flexibility continued to haunt C/C++ in RNGs and beyond."

"correctly identifies that the main point of limiting access isn’t peering cost but steering attention to Facebook’s ad‑monetized ecosystem"

"snarky but correct about the Java plugin’s terrible security record; Java in browsers indeed died"

"accurate macOS details and reasonable portability argument for xxd vs ld"

"good, focused questions on performance impact and possibility of a microcode fix; those questions captured the right long-term concerns even though answers remained largely “software workaround only”"

"strong, timeless analysis of how suppressing dissent destroys organizations, borne out repeatedly in tech and politics since"

"excellent illustration of Goodhart’s law in test‑coverage metrics; perfectly aligned with later industry discussions on metric misuse"

"realistic description of a large retailer storing PANs while still “PCI‑compliant”; matches industry reality"

"teaching sequence emphasizing simple endings early matches modern youth coaching wisdom"

"deep explanation of why big rewrites often recreate the same problems and why incremental learning-focused changes work better"

"introduced sound risk‑comparison thinking that mirrors how SRE/infra teams now evaluate cloud vs on‑prem vs hybrid"

"correctly saw that mounting legal pressure made it an ideal time for Sud to shift into a tools/analytics business"

"central insight—that you must ultimately trust the device you hold, and that TPM+sealed storage already gets you most of what the stateless laptop promises—matches where mainstream secure platforms actually went"

"most accurate structural explanation of BBC incentives and governance; aged very well"

"right that bad working conditions and narrow cultural norms hurt everyone but especially minorities; prescient about focusing on inclusion, not just sexism as such"

"rightly outraged at the bus factor; later investigation confirmed this as a core structural problem"

"correctly downplays 5k clients as “not that much of the internet”"

"correct instinct that gag‑law logic can swallow canaries, and that courts won’t indulge convoluted evasions"

"accurate about how hard it is to convince skeptics with words alone, and likely correct that Google didn’t provide “open‑ended NSA access”; but underestimates the structural trust problem that later events made painfully clear"

"accurate stats on bug closure, but underestimates how much lack of feedback harms user trust; the “we don’t tell you what happened” stance aged poorly"

"brought in the more nuanced German scholarship and clearly set out the refuge hypothesis and its limits, matching later cautious consensus"

"technically correct explanation of Signal’s multi‑device sync and store‑and‑forward behavior, which became central to Signal’s design"

"described exactly the NFC+TOTP use case that became mainstream for Yubico Authenticator and similar tools."

"good lay explanation of undecidability vs “very hard”; technically sound"

"explains relive vs polished releases in a way that still matches CCC’s publishing model"

"usefully links the actual PDF; minimal but helpful"

"clear, systems‑level analysis of why juries exist and the dangers of simplistic “just use judges” proposals"

"strong, accurate defense of Patreon as a primary income model; correctly described its advantages before it was mainstream"

"prescient about Go’s niche, the likely form and scope of future generics, and the long-term stability of the language"

"clear, durable explanation of Arrow as a mathematical statement about incompatible fairness axioms, not a fatalistic political slogan"

"correctly frames D‑Wave as early‑stage research with pragmatic applications “still a ways into the future”"

"clear, experience-based argument for drop-in replacements and risk-splitting; aligns with today’s best practices and many later postmortems"

"correctly foresaw that private launch would drastically change cost structures and hence the human vs robot tradeoffs"

"correctly generalizes from ARG history; matches how the niche evolved"

"strong on I/O constraints, prediction that current mobile/desktop split and tablet stagnation would last 5–10 years"

"correctly identified Rust as the realistic path to escape-C-for-new-code and framed the problem as “fix C vs new language,” which is how things played out"

"pragmatic but principled guidance on how individual engineers can improve testing/process within flawed orgs; aged well with SRE/DevEx focus"

"vision of a blogging platform that periodically scrapes and archives outbound links is exactly in line with later tools and plugins, even if no single “perfect platform” dominates"

"excellent hardware and design analysis of why PC platformers of that era “felt wrong,” still cited as a real historical distinction"

"argued it’s not “SV or nothing” and pointed to remote offices / non‑SV hubs; the remote/hybrid boom post‑2020 strongly reinforced this"

"skeptical that cramming early yields lasting adult differences; analogy to “sprinting the first 300m of a marathon” holds up"

"prescient about PM and tech lead needing to be peers jointly responsible for the conceptual model; that is now an explicit pattern in many product orgs"

"advocating buying laptops with accessible service manuals and easily replaced parts; that strategy aged very well in a world of increasingly sealed ultrabooks"

"sensible middle-ground take about what 100 hours of study can do at small scales, and pushes back against all-or-nothing thinking"

"accurate that classic keyboard-heavy roguelikes don’t map well to touch; mobile-native roguelikes indeed dominated on phones"

"accurate about dependence on external aid and multi‑decade consequences of childhood lead exposure; somewhat overstated “no money anywhere” but directionally right"

"no prediction, but an unusually clear and memorable communication of the underlying dread"

"clear about what compiler-level vendoring support did and didn’t provide; later superseded by modules as the “official” solution"

"argued that buying Netflix would be a bad idea because other content owners would flee—essentially what *happened* when Disney later pulled its own catalog and others built rival services instead of consolidating under one"

"sensible pushback on assuming it was necessarily “our” government; reflects the enduring ambiguity about attribution"

"insightful “spouse firewall” idea that holds up, but the “FB might MySpace-collapse” intuition has not borne out"

"right that you can’t paralyze yourself waiting for peer‑reviewed studies for every classroom decision, but his strong enthusiasm for tau’s practical teaching benefits did not translate into any visible shift in curricula or broad adoption."

"strong qualitative prediction about ubiquitous tiny computers and censorship‑resistant comms that aged well; plus actually did the project"

"historical and factual contribution about the earlier 2012 discussion and involvement in the RFC"

"prescient remark about ISP-locked routers, which remain a key obstacle to DIY DNS blocking"

"criticism of Google’s opaque bug-handling and the trust cost has held up; Google’s public bug-reporting experience is still often frustrating"

"accurate focus on near‑term “stupid AI” dangers: autonomous weapons, job disruption, predictive systems"

"good System 1 vs System 2 framing and emphasis on rich prior knowledge in human one-shot learning"

"powerful example of computing as social mobility; demoscene → industry pipeline has only become more recognized"

"practical, experience-based study advice—prioritizing speaking/listening and using SRS tools—that matches modern best practice"

"right about the long‑term risk of closed messaging silos and platform power; wrong insofar as he implied there wasn’t much new value vs IRC — UX and integrations clearly mattered"

"very strong analysis of why simple price signals are insufficient, and how online information, modifiability, and long‑term ownership logistics would matter more over time"

"solid, still-useful links to physical and LEGO difference engines; these references age well"

"strong, forward-looking analysis of walled gardens and hardware opacity; largely matched industry trends"

"accurately anticipated how generalized reputation systems can drift toward Chinese‑style “social credit” concerns; prescient in light of 2018‑onward debates"

"solid, largely accurate explanation of US voter file practices and the political value of even limited participation metadata"

"interesting, if speculative, linkage to “mouse utopia” and social saturation; more metaphorical than predictive"

"clear, accurate explanation of dollar hegemony and why Zimbabwe’s move was globally irrelevant"

"very strong grasp of relative probabilities of success in tech vs elite sports; later developments in both industries have supported this comparison"

"accurately emphasizes near‑term, non‑space applications of DNA hacking over speculative deep‑space use"

"consistently clear‑eyed on drone economics, limited viable scenarios, and the “threat as leverage” angle"

"correctly anticipates that unusual prescribing for rare conditions can reveal individual-level patterns"

"light, not predictive, but accurately captures how odd it is that small experimental groups become media fodder"

"ahead of the curve on pedagogy, nonviolence, respect for children, risk in one‑on‑one teaching, and realistic but positive expectations of El Sistema‑style programs"

"early and accurate recognition of the looming junior-role bottleneck and realistic view of what new devs can do"

"described a remote-work + midday nap routine that became mainstream after COVID-era WFH adoption"

"forceful, concrete argument that engineers have a professional duty to fix security/ops WTFs, not just “raise once and forget”; matches post‑breach/AI‑ethics expectations"

"accurately connected this mess to Samsung v. Apple and SCOTUS; slightly overclaimed that “stuff like this will simply go away”"

"insight that “Permission to be Human” would be a clearer framing; matches how similar posts are now positioned"

"personal dislike of NGINX Plus paywalling health checks; many agreed in spirit, but the model clearly proved sustainable"

"accurately foresaw the centrality and staying power of the NumPy‑based ecosystem"

"correctly highlighted Python 2’s impending end in Django 1.11 and 2.0 being Python 3-only"

"strong early endorsement of ChessTempo’s adaptive tactics, which anticipated how mainstream training would evolve"

"spot-on identification of winner’s-curse style selection bias in picking the cheapest/fastest bid"

"interesting meta-observation about styling paralysis; not really predictive"

"prescient emphasis on cooperation among the poor, echoed in later waves of unionization and mutual-aid thinking"

"clear, durable framing of multi-path AI progress, arms race dynamics, and the key alignment question"

"early, clear recommendation to be transparent and ask for donations; exactly what succeeded via Patreon/Ko-fi/etc."

"accurately highlights that much of CS cares deeply about performance and that Haskell’s laziness/immutability/pointer model are awkward for many algorithmic domains; right that Curry–Howard ideas have had limited impact on mainstream AI/graphics/crypto"

"early nod to self‑modification, which did become an important part of the deep‑space/biotech conversation"

"deep, accurate strategic analysis of Chrome’s impact on Mozilla and browser politics"

"correct, detailed explanation of why Swift could afford massive breakage compared to Python 3 due to app-bundled runtimes"

"strong, precise critique of entropy modeling and correlations; very aligned with later, more mature research"

"very clear explanation of how C behaves like hardware at the spec level and why C‑implemented emulators can fail to realize the full power of TC languages they target"

"lucid corrections and context on naming in OpenGL, NUL vs NULL, and Android’s “is user a goat/monkey” gag; demonstrates how much subtle conceptual baggage lives in names and APIs"

"accurate distinctions between SMTP vs. MIME RFCs and how addresses should be escaped in different contexts; still correct and useful"

"solid, technically accurate clarifications on Ruby parsing, context sensitivity, and terminology like “lowering” vs “desugaring”"

"correctly notes Swift’s ambitious Unicode support and its practical impact on tooling"

"correctly notes that the drafts differ; neutral on which would “win,” so not much to judge"

"very insightful about apt’s string and cache issues and correctly identified big optimization opportunities; but his strong prescription about cumulative diffs for Debian didn’t age well, and his pessimism about upstream maintainability was partly disproven."

"correct on OEM/GPL dynamics and Android’s avoidance of GPL userland; legal prediction that lack of strict compatibility sunk fair use was ultimately rejected by SCOTUS"

"strong, correct prediction that networking players like Cavium/Broadcom/Freescale would move next‑gen parts to ARMv8"

"describes modern console servers with PCIe UARTs, dual GbE, and datacenter‑friendly features; that’s exactly where the market stayed"

"right that SymbOS uses a decoder card for MP3; aligns with how the feature works today"

"timeless, empirically supported point about videos being introductions and real learning requiring active problem‑solving"

"on‑point prediction that AI would be a tool for the already‑powerful to become richer and marginalize others"

"nicely frames this as a problem needing real user research and process, which is exactly where government UX went"

"rightly flags a suspect scientific claim about metabolism after death; aligns with established pharmacology and forensic practice"

"correctly clarified the misleading headline and the proprietary-ledger + Bitcoin-hash design."

"accurate framing of Alibaba tax as the central mission; correctly anticipated separation of holdings vs core and the likelihood of further breakup"

"strong defense of taking AI risk seriously; early, accurate emphasis on regulating *compute* and chip fabs rather than just algorithms"

"sophisticated attacker/defender equilibrium framing that matches today’s AI security debates"

"good climate‑change analogy for long‑term AI prep; engagement with Stuart Russell and safety discourse"

"correctly emphasized the hamburger menu’s long‑term UX problems and how they manifest in engagement"

"early description of using Yelp photos alongside menus, now extremely common behavior"

"nicely articulates why a single-line `rng.uniform` interface is materially more readable and usable than juggling engine + distribution."

"excellent, accurate exposition; correctly notes adversarial examples transfer to other models and that adversarial training helps"

"clear articulation of the core problems that have only become more salient; encouraged exactly the questions engineers now routinely ask"

"zero overclaiming, surfaced an important practical issue—funding option exercise—that became more common and visible"

"correct and prescient about rising demand for Postgres DBAs; technical concern about `jsonb ||` remains valid"

"correctly identified MySQL’s popularity as coming from cheap hosting ubiquity rather than GUI clients, matching later consensus and Postgres’s rise"

"fair, still‑accurate criticism that many listed works are only “more or less” accurate, with a good example in *The Forever War*’s collapsar travel"

"sharp explanation that entropy is the “perfect” measure given a model, Kolmogorov complexity is fundamentally limited in practice, and that compression is mathematically well-understood; this stance holds up well against the next decade"

"appropriately skeptical of “alkalizing diets” and pushed for real evidence"

"correct that ReactOS wasn’t usable on mainstream hardware even after 17 years and remains a poor choice for oddball hardware in 2024"

"nuanced and historically grounded critique of “science always wins” and of perverse incentives; “fail extravagantly and retire rich” captured what many founders took from Theranos"

"contextualized that serious isolation and paranoia around critical systems has been good practice since long before this incident; historically accurate"

"good clarification that this is executable code and a legacy spec bug, but mostly descriptive rather than predictive"

"correct focus on local purchasing power vs raw prices; broadly aligned with how compensation comparison discussions evolved"

"nailed the Rostov / Akaciya / South Military District command-network explanation that later became the accepted view"

"excellent long-term picks: Rust and TypeScript in one “new languages” list is very strong; Elixir and Elm as interesting options also aged well"

"very clear grasp of source-repo subversion as a realistic attack vector; essentially predicted the style of compromise both here and in later supply-chain incidents"

"sharp on inequality driving high-end art markets, and on digital subcultures like vaporwave/demoscene as meaningful art"

"accurately characterized Rossi as a scam and described the free‑energy scam pattern and investor targeting"

"highlighted CouchDB’s append‑only B‑tree durability and snapshot strengths, which held up technically and conceptually over the decade"

"consistently urged restraint, respect for family, and focus on Ian’s contributions rather than speculative theories"

"point about “magic smoke” not being healthy and needing a fume hood is basic but evergreen and very much in line with today’s best practices"

"good practical insight: cute/snarky error logs often become very unfunny when users are suffering downtime—a lesson that keeps proving itself"

"speculative idea about augmenting BWT with extra structure/FSM; no notable realization of that idea, but directionally compatible with later ANS + modeling work"

"accurate description of remote‑work lifestyle benefits that became mainstream experience during and after COVID"

"usefully pointed readers to BiblioOdyssey, a genuinely comparable and still-notable project, but made no time-sensitive or predictive claims"

"captured the scale and nature of the Moldovan bank theft in a way that matches later reporting; some rhetorical exaggeration but directionally right"

"right that Russia/USSR tattoo culture is unusually formalized, but the implication of current, system‑wide consistency is overstated in light of later evidence"

"on‑the‑ground confirmation of Sonic gigabit in SF that prefigured Google’s permanent absence there"

"PlanGrid’s description as a profitable, high-impact vertical SaaS for construction was validated by a major acquisition"

"accurately characterized Midori’s implications and the persistence of memory-safety-driven vulnerabilities"

"good diagnosis of MAS problems and a reasonable set of fixes; Apple implemented some (UI redesign, more entitlements, better review times"

"right that telecom/chip players actually read patents and that execution/productization matters more than being “first”; only partly right that Apple would gain Ericsson‑like leverage via standards/modems"

"clearly distinguished cryptographic vs non‑cryptographic needs and warned about the spec’s lack of guarantees, which remains accurate."

"accurate operational framing of IPv6 as /64 blocks, making IPv6 DDoS and blocking tractable in practice"

"experience-based observation that SDs “dying” can be mitigated by moving to NFS root; aligns with later best practices"

"good nuance about “no access” sometimes being the only truly secure option and about the commercial pressure *against* doing the right thing"

"accurately highlights that all browsers only support HTTP/2 over TLS, which stayed true in practice"

"correctly noted that Galileo and Lavoisier are not “Dark Ages,” and that “Dark Ages” is a caricature; this aligns well with current historiography."

"consistently careful about over‑extrapolating microbiome data and correlation vs causation"

"solid legal explanation of patent clauses and Apache‑style grants that aged fine"

"correctly argued that AV-introduced holes, including cert-handling bugs, are as worth fixing as any other; aligned with later consensus"

"clear, correct articulation of the need for ubiquitous encryption to avoid targeting"

"rigorous, correct explanations of RFCs, threading, quoting, and extensibility principles that aged very well"

"excellent discussion of threat model, observability, and real-world examples like Nedap"

"insists that extremists see themselves as moral and that religion’s epistemology matters; overall aligned with later extremism research, though somewhat overconfident about “scientific morality”"

"points to actual scientific data instead of “cult” rhetoric"

"very accurate early articulation of big-data risk classification and unfair clustering, which closely matches later developments"

"strong, generalizable insight into consumer unwillingness to trade core functionality for secondary values like privacy"

"good analysis of why hidden salaries are bad for candidates and support for enforcing ranges on boards"

"good instinct that modern information infrastructure should enable better replication and collaborative vetting, matching later open-science directions"

"using copyright’s long‑term trajectory as an example of systemic governance failure remains a defensible diagnosis"

"clearly articulated the need for checksummed filesystems before they were common; exactly validated by ZFS/btrfs/APFS adoption and real-world corruption findings"

"early, well‑argued decision to abandon Eagle for KiCad that aged extremely well given Eagle’s subsequent trajectory."

"useful bzip history and long‑term compatibility concern; slightly too pessimistic about xz’s eventual ubiquity, but reasoning was sound"

"nailed D3/SVG’s role in resurrecting SVG and articulated the enduring DOM advantage for data viz"

"accurately called federated identity a political problem; big platforms indeed refused to back a neutral IdP and consolidated identity themselves"

"early adoption experience with macOS Qt Wireshark accurately foreshadowed how welcome the native Mac port would be"

"correctly read the long-term win of standards-based web tech over NaCl/PNaCl"

"prescient about predictive policing and over‑reliance on crime prediction software"

"realistic about DRM and market forces; right that refusing EME would have been suicidal, less right in downplaying revenue/optics issues around Pocket"

"correctly reports the commission for Darren Aronofsky, a detail that held up and remains notable"

"accurate on Perl 5’s enduring importance and on Perl 6 not deprecating Perl 5"

"accurately emphasizes drought vulnerability and ecological damage from dams; some generalizations on dam lifetimes are a bit sweeping but directionally sound"

"clear, accurate explanation of capabilities vs RBAC, secret URLs as weak capabilities, UX implications; all aged very well and aligns with later systems like Fuchsia/WASI."

"excellent, technically precise description of ext4 append semantics, flush windows, and correct journaling/`fsync` usage that remains best practice"

"very accurate analysis of VM vs container tradeoffs and prediction of convergence via narrower/broader interfaces"

"strong, broadly correct argument for self-contained executables that matched later practice"

"Sandstorm’s security model and goals were solid, but the implicit promise that this would be a significant practical alternative didn’t pan out"

"technically on point about Slack’s security incident and Sandstorm’s goals; but Sandstorm didn’t become the set‑and‑forget mainstream alternative he implicitly envisioned"

"clear understanding of trust boundaries, client complexity, and acceptance of alternative clients; his framing matches how the ecosystem evolved"

"bringing in “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” which has proven highly relevant"

"insisted on proper attribution, which is exactly what later readers care about"

"zeroed in on firmware attacks and NSA-like adversaries, and related the work to prior talks on “why Johnny can’t tell if he’s compromised”; this aged very well"

"shared a conceptually important RSA common‑factor puzzle that stayed relevant in real‑world key auditing and crypto education"

"correctly notes the number is smaller than early RSA challenges and points to GNFS and implementations; exactly aligned with how such problems are still approached."

"accurate descriptive point about U.S. media routinely reporting ages; still true and relevant context"

"administrivia about authorship; neutral but accurate"

"spot‑on observation that the differing outputs indicated Cloudflare, not curl, was changing the data; aligns with what was later confirmed"

"precise description of the “new core + legacy wrapper” pattern and insightful naming/branding analysis that aged unusually well"

"deep, accurate analysis of RSS as a utilitarian syndication layer, the economics of full-content feeds, and the role of scrapers/offline caches"

"very accurate prediction of bookstores evolving into curated galleries / advisory services"

"technically solid and detailed explanation of RemoteApp/RDP that remained conceptually accurate even though Azure RemoteApp as a product was retired"

"strongly foresaw Microsoft’s cloud pivot, remote apps, and the diminished centrality of the desktop OS to the business"

"accurate and forward‑looking view of game design as incentive-system design broadly applicable beyond games; matches the rise of behavioral/product design roles"

"strong, forward‑looking analysis of API abstraction and emulation strategies that matches how Wii U/Switch/modern console emulation evolved"

"good intuition about encoding tweaks into systems rather than one-off edits; matches the rise of ML-assisted workflows"

"accurate description of career stratification between R&D and “maintenance” engineers, still a major organizational issue"

"largely correct intuition that quantum doesn’t magically shatter well‑designed symmetric ciphers; some technical hand‑waving"

"shrewd read that the letter was also aimed at other billionaires, trying to norm‑shift them toward philanthropy; hard to prove causality, but the broader billionaire‑pledge culture did strengthen"

"forward‑looking question about using vitrification for human tissue preservation; still speculative, but conceptually in line with ongoing research into dry preservation"

"attempt to distinguish Apple’s iAd model as privacy‑friendlier; in practice iAd was short‑lived and Apple’s real privacy impact came via OS‑level tracking restrictions, not a central ad platform"

"identifies a real issue—higher BT latency on iOS—but speculates without evidence; later work did show mobile OSes often trade latency for battery, but the comment is anecdotal/partial"

"very early and accurate critique of the “human capital” framing that has since become a major theme in social and economic discourse"

"strongly anticipates the next decade’s discourse linking neoliberalism, male alienation, and toxic masculinity, even if one empirical claim he cites is strictly wrong"

"emphasized neuroplasticity, meditation research, and warned against untestable evo-psych stories; all aged very well"

"accurate and forward-looking recognition of the systemic importance of open source contributors"

"good nuance on when humans accept correction; maps well onto later work on status and identity‑protective cognition"

"advice that thin, comprehensive C bindings are extremely valuable has aged very well as a norm in the ecosystem"

"reasonable quantitative challenge to the 10% doctors stat; caveat about migration was plausible but likely overstated as an explanation"

"captures the “wild west of consumer chemicals” idea; more sociological than predictive, but the sentiment that we’re safer with toxins confined to devices rather than garages aged reasonably well"

"sound, still‑relevant guidance on GC strategy and explanation of lazy parsing in JS engines"

"good cross-language analogy to C#/.NET, correctly implying that sealed/non-virtual defaults can work fine in a large ecosystem"

"excellent and durable insight into why “temporary” solutions harden into permanent ones; holds up very well in hindsight"

"description of Dart’s pub constraint solver matches where many ecosystems ended up: solver + lockfile, single-version trees"

"excellent and still-useful memory-allocation analogy that generalizes CS concepts to work habits"

"pragmatic insight on layout pragmatics over pure theory; the marginal-note approach aged well even if not revolutionary"

"correct note about verb usage of “scupper” as “to thwart/destroy”"

"solid defense of richer prose and anti‑anti‑intellectualism; more about taste than prediction, but consistent with ongoing debates"

"joke about the number of “Wolfram” mentions; not predictive, but accurately captures the self‑branding tone that still characterizes Wolfram’s writing"

"accurately framed massive ALPR databases as “ticking time bombs” that later became central privacy problems"

"accurately anticipated browsers explicitly marking HTTP as unsafe and framed HTTPS-for-blogs in the now-standard privacy/MITM terms"

"strong, well-argued opposition to code-as-images; aligns with current accessibility/UX best practices"

"correctly emphasized misaligned incentives rather than hoping for institutional “heart growth”"

"the “come back with more evidence” description is basically how FISC judges later said the process often works"

"plausible interpretation that Zimbabwean policymakers were tying their own hands to restore confidence; not fully borne out, but consistent with how the move functioned symbolically"

"plausible explanation of how the phrase was discovered; unverifiable but reasonable"

"licensing preference for MIT/BSD over LGPL/GPL remains a common stance; Qt’s licensing has remained a practical concern, though many commercial projects still use it successfully"

"correct intuition that error‑correcting codes are the right tool, though high‑level"

"very clear and historically accurate characterization of Channel One News as an ad-delivery vehicle; strongly supported by later critiques and its eventual demise"

"clear, correct explanation of RSA key sizes and why 1024‑bit RSA was endangered"

"practical thought about “canary transaction” devices at POS terminals"

"correct that in the US/EU, the low price of fast fashion makes routine garment repair economically marginal; this remains a big structural barrier to scaling repair"

"early, accurate skepticism of Snappy/Ubuntu Core usability; insistence on having serial for debugging is still best practice"

"reports that GV actually did the obvious venipuncture-check and walked away; later confirmed in multiple accounts"

"realistic about where the real difficulty lies and about the limited practical success of semantic web in bio, though slightly too categorical about “every” semantic web project failing"

"nice historical color on Lavoisier’s experiments and Marie‑Anne; “imperial gardens” nitpicked but harmless"

"sound skepticism of simplistic CVE counting and an accurate prediction that competition and scrutiny would benefit everyone"

"accurately noted Peter Norvig at Google; relevant but not predictive"

"clear-eyed about workflow limitations on mobile and Csound’s strength as a batch/desktop tool; real-time artifact issues were a real and lasting concern"

"accurate technical clarification about /proc on different Unix systems"

"excellent, still‑accurate description of OpenBSD culture, priorities, and development style"

"good sociolinguistic take: the PC≠Windows correction is technically right but practically futile; that’s proven correct over the decade"

"good analysis of shakedown letters as a fear-based business model and practical countermeasures"

"fragmentation critique and “300+ distros is too many” still apply, though consolidation around a handful of majors somewhat mitigated the practical impact."

"solid comparative explanation of UK/Scottish practice and how a unified, non‑tribal criminal bar can support fairer jury trials"

"solid factual corrections about David’s life and about the dual roots of 14 July commemoration"

"correct on collateral consequences of losing in court and the “shakedown without individual accountability” dynamic"

"right about human ingenuity and capitalism driving big improvements, especially in global poverty; somewhat underestimates climate and inequality risks"

"accurately anticipated the “targeted statutes, not broad CFAA” direction that *Van Buren* and later practice adopted"

"sharp analysis of RVM’s overreach, the value of tiny tools like chruby, and the idea of wrapping general tools like Nix"

"excellent intuitive summary—“sideways errors add up, lengthways errors cancel”—that holds up well"

"correct, practical concern about ash clogging airflow; matches real stove design issues"

"correctly read AOSP signs and nailed Android N split‑screen timing and direction"

"defense of not serving old APKs lines up with ongoing Android dev practice and Google’s direction toward stricter versioning and deprecation"

"good grasp of restricted profiles’ limitations and proposal for finer-grained permissions that aligns with later developments"

"correctly emphasized that ubiquitous encryption plus legal reform are both needed, and that tech-by-default would most effectively blunt mass surveillance"

"accurate identification of the remote‑UI trust problem and realistic assessment of self‑hosting complexity; concerns remained valid even if never exploited publicly"

"right that the real move was toward elliptic curves rather than ever-larger RSA, and that OpenPGP’s slow ECC standardization was a practical blocker at the time."

"right that IdP‑leased identity is structurally problematic and that true user‑owned identity wasn’t solved; but no practical alternative emerged in the decade"

"excellent articulation of land‑and‑expand behavior that matches standard PLG patterns"

"clear application of Innovator’s Dilemma to why incumbents won’t lead in new energy—borne out by the rise of new players in EVs and renewables"

"good articulation of how “free energy” can exacerbate inefficiency and externalities – a real policy concern"

"good practical explanation of dependencies, slack, and critical path using a relatable commuting analogy"

"correctly predicted that man pages would not broadly gain good EXAMPLES sections and that projects like tldr exist because man failed many users"

"spot‑on description of long POS hardware/software lifecycles and vendor stagnation that remains true"

"early adopter perspective on National Parks as dark-sky resources; this trend has only grown"

"the suggestion to file a proper bug report is mundane but precisely how many of the App Store client issues eventually got hammered out"

"nailed the “attention trap” / “boring Matrix” nature of social media before it became cliché"

"nailed Google Fiber’s competitive signaling effect on incumbents"

"nicely separated gameplay variety vs. level abstraction, and the wish for D1 layouts reimagined with D2’s roster is basically what many later projects/megwads did in spirit"

"accurate description of Starbucks’ jargon training and turning it into a teaching moment; not predictive, but insightful"

"created a long-lived, widely-used tutorial series that still serves as a solid intro to interpreters, even if it uses a simplistic expression parser early on"

"clear, timeless exposition of ASTs and visitors that has held up well and remains widely useful"

"surfaced a paper that remains influential in compiler education"

"for surfacing a classic, still-relevant article; no predictive comment to grade, but the curation choice holds up very well"

"not in the comments, but as the submitter, helped feed a stream of PL resources that in hindsight looks like a meaningful part of a larger PL-education wave"

"accurately skeptical about UV/IR “super vision”, Ce6 eyedrops, and correctly pointing to cortical/prosthetic augmentation as more realistic"

"correctly identifies the Tyndall effect as the better physical explanation than Rayleigh scattering"

"spot‑on explanation that FDA does allow agile development; the key is documenting and following your process—precisely what Theranos failed at"

"good observation that EMR reduces *storage* more than *use* of paper; this has remained true in many healthcare settings"

"fair historical note on Tcl’s early Unicode support, and candid about its later stagnation"

"usefully probes the practicality of the lottery idea; the fact that implementations later appeared vindicates taking the idea seriously"

"good pointers to GNU CLI standards; correct characterization of Boost.Program_options and forward-looking thoughts about discoverable web service help"

"technically correct clarifications about how real exchanges handle FIX sessions/opening; those details still hold up and show why the article’s “performance vs. login security” tradeoff is simplified"

"technically correct distinction between sensitivity and selectivity, and how modern receivers reject harmonics"

"good breakdown of formal vs informal background checks and risk-aversion; a bit hand-wavy but directionally right"

"useful historical correction about SpiderMonkey/TraceMonkey predating V8’s JIT prominence"

"explained why exchanges charge heavily for fine‑grained data and why successful traders prefer high barriers; this economic logic continues to describe the market well"

"the “holy crap this boilerplate is insane” reaction aged well as a diagnosis of why so many people avoided raw OpenCL"

"solid, technically accurate explanations of LE’s challenge model, compromise scenarios, and short‑lived cert rationale"

"correctly highlights how difficult it is for U.S. citizens to get standing to challenge domestic use of foreign‑intel tools; this remained a central legal obstacle"

"very solid explanation of licensing and why a streaming service wouldn’t realistically offer permanent DRM-free FLAC under a flat subscription"

"forcefully and accurately called out credential-sharing as “insane,” matching later regulatory and industry consensus"

"accurately articulated the central structural danger of “national security” as a shield from constitutional scrutiny, which is exactly how Jewel and similar cases played out"

"technically correct explanation that hidden SSIDs don’t add real security"

"right that municipal fiber/open access utilities are an excellent structural solution and that incumbents lobbied hard to stop them; that remains central to the policy debate"

"accurate summary of Erlang’s consistency, small core, OTP advantages; still the canonical pitch today"

"encouraged trying the flags to understand incompatibility; minor but sound advice"

"useful cross-browser report, but no long-term insight"

"balanced, incentive‑based argument that matches Google’s subsequent behavior in vulnerability disclosure"

"solid attempt at legal parsing; tentative and mostly right about Party/government scope, but light on the competitive/ownership games"

"accurate description of how much nicer smoke-free bars feel with hindsight, and a reasonable analogy to workplace safety regulation"

"very accurate, structural explanation of why egress filtering remains incomplete—a tragedy of the commons—and prediction that spoof-friendly connectivity would remain easy to obtain"

"very good analysis of why misusing police records is a distinct wrong and why broad catch‑all laws like CFAA are problematic"

"helpfully pointed to the “cryptographic doom principle,” which is central to understanding these failures"

"solid grasp of Jevons paradox and a very clear conceptual carbon‑tax/clean‑energy‑subsidy “cross‑subsidy” mechanism that resembles later policy debates"

"strong, still‑relevant articulation of why locking APIs and “ecosystems” is dangerous; broadly validated by Google v. Oracle’s direction"

"right to question the “must be thinner” excuse—technically you *can* make robust, repairable phones; overestimated the size of the market that would actually prioritize that over sleekness, which proved much smaller than hoped"

"extends the alloparenting and social‑support argument in a way that fits later cross‑cultural evidence"

"legally precise clarification about permissions and licenses"

"correctly identified YouTube’s unique funnel + bundled music as a powerful differentiator vs Netflix-style services"

"accurate explanation of nonprofits/grantmaking and thoughtful pushback on simplistic “offense is always wrong/right” framing"

"good clarification of paradigm history and why FP vs OO as pure opposites is a misframing"

"clear, balanced framing of development diseconomies vs distribution economies that aligns with later consensus."

"strong, durable explanations of riders, amendments, and budget politics that match how things have continued to work"

"argued that one 451 code is sufficient and that extra detail belongs in the body, which is exactly how the standard and practice evolved"

"correctly focused on credibility constraints and pointed out that once a currency is dead in practice, the supposed policy flexibility of sovereignty is minimal"

"appropriate correction that censorship does occur in the US, often via pressure and domain actions rather than a firewall"

"good on hypocrisy and on Christian virtues vs Piper’s tone; somewhat pessimistic on whether Piper addressed the student privately"

"correct about government offices generating “vast piles of paper” internally, a pattern that has persisted"

"usefully distinguishes between “what’s in a holy text” and “what a religious culture or tradition might influence,” a nuanced point that ages fine"

"accurately noted Monsanto’s ongoing dominance in certain traits and that DowDuPont wouldn’t control all seeds/chem"

"clear, accurate explanation of prejudice as judging individuals by group membership; aligns with later mainstream discussions"

"theoretical note that weakening social safety nets can push fertility up is plausible, but Japan has not gone far down that path yet; not clearly right or wrong so far"

"early, clear articulation that icon systems are their own languages with dialects; somewhat abstract but broadly validated"

"solid defense of networked, distributed decision-making and recognition of hierarchy’s limits"

"on arrays/lists as sets of (index, element"

"solid on models vs. reality; their “no physical process known to be non‑computable” stance is mainstream and still reasonable"

"balanced view that cameras help but training and culture also matter, which is consistent with later evidence"

"simple but correct identification of Carl XVI Gustaf; modestly informative"

"correct to emphasize that many laws care about “material element of chance” rather than pure chance vs pure skill"

"technically correct about how to do groupwise maximums; slightly underestimates the ergonomic value of new grouping features"

"accurate, nuanced prediction that most people don’t want to reprogram devices; internet’s core value is connecting people"

"good elaboration on why even grid-based fuzzing can leak precise locations at boundaries; anticipates issues later seen in practice."

"early, vivid warnings about the psychological and quasi‑religious aspects of the rationalist/singularity milieu; perhaps somewhat overgeneral, but later events vindicate much of the concern"

"solid, nuanced take on ML vs symbolic AI and realistic near-term misuse; much of it held up"

"excellent and largely accurate predictions about alternative creator funding, correct invocation of legal principles, and realistic expectations about business‑model shifts"

"excellent, deeply prescient articulation of why modern surveillance is fundamentally different—“too cheap to meter,” analytics, scale, and institutional consequences"

"strong, forward‑looking grasp of aggregation risks, incentives, and liability that matches how privacy debates evolved"

"promoted Aral Balkan’s “you are the product” framing and broader critique of surveillance capitalism that proved highly accurate"

"legally realistic take on gag orders and why 451/warrant-canary workarounds are risky in court"

"already graded above, but reiterating as the HRM recommendation is especially prescient"

"coining “digital imperialism” for this strategy was chillingly apt; that term went on to be widely used about Free Basics and similar efforts"

"accurate and now-common view that software/crypto work is inherently political"

"strong articulation of algorithmic bias and over‑trust in automated decision systems"

"promoting portable shell patterns around `getopt` and showing help/version handling reflects good long-term practices"

"strong, if somewhat absolutist, argument against electronic voting; overshoots a bit but directionally aligned with later consensus against unauditable or online voting"

"solid explanation of privacy as modern “liberty,” good citation of Riley v. California and Jacob Appelbaum; less about prediction, more about sound principles"

"right that many sites don’t *need* JS and that analytics miss JS‑off users; underestimates how thoroughly JS apps would dominate, but conceptually sound"

"correctly identified DOM/reflow as the Achilles’ heel for SVG as an animation/game platform; history has borne that out, with Canvas/WebGL taking the high‑performance animation niche"

"valuable historical anecdote emphasizing how far industrial safety has improved; not predictive but strongly informative"

"provided citation; neutral but correct"

"rightly called out bad UX of running the package manager on `--help`; that behavior was eventually abandoned with better packaging"

"shares another visualization (divisorplot"

"ethically consistent defense of GPL, but underestimates just how strongly industry would converge on permissive licenses and non-OSS “source-available” responses"

"nailed the long‑term significance of JSONB modifications and Postgres as a JSON/document store"

"very early, accurate bet on Jupyter + Spark over Zeppelin for production use"

"correctly framed the opportunity as a scalable platform/licensing play rather than just stock-music retail"

"essentially correct on NVIDIA vs AMD, CUDA vs OpenCL, and the idea that high-level APIs, not OpenCL itself, would be the main portability layer"

"correctly defends the validity of the question, points to Word2Vec and autoencoders, and gives a solid intuitive prediction of composite hallucinations from a richer dataset"

"highlighted seq2seq and an LSTM+Attention QA model that slightly outperforms CNNs, aligning with the later dominance of attention-based architectures"

"accurately predicted that the most interesting work would move beyond ImageNet once human-level performance was surpassed"

"strong technical understanding of Freebase vs Knowledge Graph vs Knowledge Vault; correctly framed statement vs resource counts and foresaw the practical importance of typed KG APIs"

"correct instincts about the speed and significance of progress; pushes back against “slow improvement” in a way that history vindicated"

"good clarification that the relevant workloads were already in native/HPC libraries and that storage interfaces like NVMe would often matter more in practice"

"sensible comments on optimization, possible ML connections, and on the gap between “unsolvable” and “practically solvable”"

"properly explains the breadth of OCP designs and that they are more than a parts list; slightly optimistic about the openness implications but largely sound"

"framed the “what’s safer than Juniper—Cisco, Huawei, or open source?” question in a way that’s still exactly the right security trade-off discussion"

"good anticipation that deep-learning Go bots would develop Go-like features internally; consistent with modern net behavior"

"relevant pointer to related work in MBox; historically interesting though that line of tooling didn’t become mainstream"

"good technical curiosity about the UI embedding; the mental model of Jupyter as a flexible, extensible environment has aged very well"

"accurately relayed Ghahramani’s desire to show non‑deep methods can match deep nets on ImageNet; that never really happened, underscoring how dominant deep methods stayed, but this is more reportage than prediction"

"correct that storage tech would improve and matter; overestimates flow batteries’ practical role versus lithium-ion"

"right that Facebook/WhatsApp are major information channels in crises, but without foresight about the misinformation downside"

"nailed the *real* problem with equity—payoff size, not just odds of success—years before this became common knowledge"

"nailed the expected‑value math of startup equity vs BigCo salaries; very consistent with how the decade played out"

"nuanced explanation of UI vs UX and “users are tech‑savvy but not experts in your app” holds up very well"

"accurately connected “dynamic type” with variable sizing and accessibility, anticipating how Apple would push that model"

"right to be worried about Flickr’s fate; it survived via sale to SmugMug but with significant changes and partial loss of archives"

"excellent diagnosis of Windows Phone’s app-gap and chicken-and-egg dynamics; right that universal apps wouldn’t fix it, though Android-compatibility as a cure is unproven"

"correctly framed PHP 7 as a major, maturing release with valuable type additions"

"right about React’s momentum, Angular 2’s complexity, and TS; overstated “slaughtered the market” but directionally right"

"nailed the “mass surveillance requires mass adoption and therefore great UX” tension that has defined Signal’s struggle"

"accurately diagnosing the recurring “reinvent Couch/PouchDB without acknowledging it” pattern, which we still see"

"strong but accurate stance that Shodan’s behavior is legal and normal in US Internet practice"

"critique of Go ecosystem documentation that remained broadly accurate; lego’s README stood out for a good reason"

"correct explanation that DV certs don’t screen for phishing and that EV is separate; matches how things evolved"

"sharp question about non‑Windows revocation; exactly the right concern"

"accurate focus on Ca²⁺ depletion as main acute mechanism; good literature instincts"

"correctly notes modulation and coding can suppress crosstalk and distinguishes military radar trade‑offs vs civilian LIDAR"

"notes that climate scientists already think in risk terms and references IPCC AR5 appropriately"

"nuanced view on Alpine vs Debian, correctly highlighting musl/C-extension friction and when optimization is worth it"

"accurate observation that Rails’ evolution is deeply connected to Basecamp’s real-world needs; this continued to be true"

"accurately skeptical about how “Kickstarter‑like” beginner clones really are, especially around payments and messaging"

"correctly characterized Apple’s OpenGL as a disaster and implicitly foreshadowed their deprecation of it in favor of Metal"

"correctly identified real undefined behavior in the code; very important practical catch"

"early, correct skepticism about “DevOps” being used to get one person to do two jobs"

"sound skepticism of over-reading references and over-valuing “drive” at the expense of proven professionalism"

"right that GC doesn’t belong at the *lowest* Wasm layer if you want maximal control, but wrong to generalize that GC is something “professional game developers” categorically don’t want; industry use of GC-backed engines and Wasm GC evolution undercut the claim"

"succinctly captured FPF’s effective stance: “the future of privacy is ‘no privacy’”"

"succinctly pointed developers to `window.crypto.getRandomValues("

"linked the *Community* S6 loss story, which is exactly how that bet is remembered now"

"brings in solid empirical evidence from Microsoft that simple UA+IP fingerprinting is already very strong; prescient in emphasizing server-side data"

"points out that AVG’s CEO came from Mozilla; the implied dissonance with AVG’s security posture aged in an interesting, if depressing, way"

"noting Unity/WebGL as an alternative for Facebook game devs was on the right side of history, though the comment is brief"

"sensible speculation about perverse incentives; not especially predictive but reasonable"

"excellent, detailed, and enduringly accurate explanation of how DeepDream works and how mid‑level representations would behave on broader data; most prescient in the thread"

"good systems-level explanation of PCIe lane limits and the need for balanced designs; entirely aligned with how AI server design evolved"

"right call that this fit better with Google Life Sciences than Calico and that it aligned with other less‑invasive monitoring projects"

"good reasoning on incentives and testability; somewhat optimistic about how universally this would be “a good move”"

"good historical context and self-correction re: “parsing is solved”; still broadly aligned with how packrat/PEG renewed interest"

"nailed Echo/Alexa as the long‑term “universal controller” role"

"accurate on coal’s rapid decline in the US and on EVs enabling decarbonization via the grid"

"extends the horse metaphor in a way that, jokingly, matches just how far past relevance Flash already was by 2015"

"good analysis of how a few true stories plus the “no one will ever believe you” line sustain an urban-legend persona"

"useful cultural correction about unhelpful negativity; not predictive but constructive and still relevant"

"helpful follow-up with better zoomed imagery"

"strong structural analysis of why inefficient, hierarchical chaebol culture persists despite market pressures"

"explicitly emphasizes North Korea’s economic changes driving fishermen to take greater risks, which is exactly what subsequent work showed"

"rightly emphasizes that open source without actual funded audits is not a real solution"

"good explanation of numeric-like compactness and later-corroborated observation that IMEs give “best of both worlds”"

"right that ISS is reusable infrastructure supporting multiple payloads; understated but directionally correct"

"good Tu‑95–B‑52 comparison and observation about Soviet iterative airframe replacement; slightly underestimates how far B‑52 life would be stretched with upgrades"

"nailed the enduring hybrid model of Office 365: desktop + cloud + mobile, and its enterprise dominance"

"gives sourced context from Wolfram’s own writing about Macsyma and SMP that matches the standard story"

"correctly emphasized “1 TB per person” and the total capacity of Office 365 Home; this model persisted"

"describes a basically correct, mainstream “cut junk, more veg and fiber” approach and notes you don’t need med school to know this"

"right that *The Good Gut* authors are serious scientists; somewhat overconfident that prestige strongly guarantees low speculation"

"right that an honest “Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale” title would be less clicky—but that mismatch of framing vs content is exactly what triggered the productive debate."

"early real-world evidence from a home ZFS array, correctly concluding that checksums and redundancy are essential on commodity hardware"

"excellent, intuitive explanation of how transform matrices are built and composed in a graphics pipeline; remains fully accurate"

"accurate “insurance move” characterization of BoA’s patent strategy"

"nuanced take that Dragon Book is over‑theoretical on parsing and outdated on backend; right directionally, maybe slightly harsh on its ongoing reference value"

"accurate critique of Emacs’ highlighting architecture; later developments like tree-sitter confirm the need for more structured, efficient approaches"

"realistic description of custom enterprise SaaS pricing dynamics; still true, though PLG reduced the scope of purely bespoke pricing"

"correctly skeptical about self‑driving timelines and clear that autonomous cars wouldn’t eliminate the need for transit or solve capacity constraints"

"good catch on the date discrepancy between the article and the YouTube upload, showing healthy skepticism of secondary reporting"

"factually correct correction about helium vs hydrogen in Akron‑class airships; aligns with aviation history as currently understood"

"accurately frames YouTube/online content as an ultra‑low barrier field where fans expect free access and creators are easily replaced—very much how the creator economy has unfolded"

"correct that 0% nominal interest doesn’t disqualify something from being debt, and that cost overruns act like implicit interest"

"clarified how donor naming is effectively “pay money, get your name on something,” which continues to describe reality"

"captures a sentiment that grew more common: “If I can’t see even ballpark pricing, I’ll skip you”"

"accurately describes the commoditization and uneven quality of web long‑form that only became more obvious in subsequent years"

"thoughtful, still‑relevant analysis of the philosophical difficulty of specifying “friendly” values; maps closely onto current alignment discourse"