I guess that explains why it's on HN. It still doesn't explain the author's glorification of his incompetence... From the bottom of page 4: "It would have been

I guess that explains why it's on HN. It still doesn't explain the author's glorification of his incompetence... From the bottom of page 4: "It would have been reasonable to assume that a man with Tackmann’s criminal smarts would be on a Greyhound bus to Virginia or Florida or anywhere across state lines to get out of New York. But he went to Spanish Harlem." It seems like the entire article is about this criminal genius who is so insanely good at being a criminal, he actually appears to be a _bad_ criminal. Why not just make the leap to the conclusion that he simply sucks at being a criminal?