I think it's humour, that magic numbers can be used to "create consensus" among operating systems, enabling portable binaries. See discussion here: https://new

I think it's humour, that magic numbers can be used to "create consensus" among operating systems, enabling portable binaries. See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117