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Somewhat on tangent but interesting fact I just read about the CFAA - two cofounders of HN (Morris and Swartz) were convicted of breaking CFAA - Morris being th
by tmotwu 6y ago
Somewhat on tangent but interesting fact I just read about the CFAA - two cofounders of HN (Morris and Swartz) were convicted of breaking CFAA - Morris being the first ever.
- Macha 6y agoAssuming Morris and Swartz here are Robert Morris and Aaron Swartz - Morris is a cofounder of YC, but I don't believe he had much to do with HN. Swartz was involved with Reddit, not HN.
- tmotwu 6y agoAh you might be right about Swartz. I thought Morris developed the HN we use today?
- Macha 6y agoHe was a co-developer on the Lisp variant that HN is written in, but as far as I know the HN codebase was PG doing a POC that said Lisp variant could write software (and given he was more concerned with Lisp then and Reddit, then a company YC had investments in, had just rewritten from Lisp to Python, maybe making the case that Lisp could be used)
- tmotwu 6y agoI'd say administrative work is considered involvement no? [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364