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This is Hacker News, I'm pretty sure there's no need to rename him from Jensen to 'NVIDIA CEO'. There's only one Carmack, one Linus, one DJB, one Elon and one J

by nailer 3y ago

This is Hacker News, I'm pretty sure there's no need to rename him from Jensen to 'NVIDIA CEO'. There's only one Carmack, one Linus, one DJB, one Elon and one Jensen.

tpxl 3y ago
I've no idea who DJB or Jensen are.
- nailer 3y ago
  DJB might be more of an privacy/infosec/Unix thing, so if you're a different type of programmer then fair enough. He is famous in crypto (as in cryptography) circles for: - Ed25519 for fast + safe asymmetric crypto - chacha/poly for fast symmetric crypto He is also famous in Unix circles for: - qmail - djbdns - his init system daemontools and a bunch of other bits. He also fought the US government for your right to use encryption when encryption was considered a munition. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein or https://cr.yp.to https://cr.yp.to Jensen is NVIDIA. Left MSI, took on the #1 competitor in the space (3DFX) and dominated them, responsible for things like CUDA and DLSS, now supplies the hardware for most of high end gaming and ML, has a two year advantage over AMD, appeared in his kitchen for an announcement once then a few months later told everyone that the entire scene was done with high quality physics based rendering and nobody knew.
  - ShamelessC 3y ago
    I thought these types of explanations were unnecessary on Hacker News...
    - askin4it 3y ago
      I got scolded on HN today for calling readers of HN "hackers." Too much
    - nullsense 3y ago
      Doesn't mean absolutely everyone knows who absolutely everyone is.
    - nailer 3y ago
      TBH I do think people in tech for more than a few years shouldn't need an explanation for who Jensen is.
JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
Except it's not the name that makes him important, but the fact that he's at the helm of a big company like nVidia.
mercutio2 3y ago
Uh, what? I know everyone else on that list, but if your preceding sentence hadn't said "NVIDIA CEO" I would know zero about a "Jensen".
hoffs 3y ago
Linus tech tips?
ChatGTP 3y ago
Had no idea who Jensen was.
accoil 3y ago
Wasn't Sarif CEO though? Pretty certain Adam was Chief of Security.
ksec 3y ago
>This is Hacker News You would expect that. Except HN isn't very good with Hardware. It might have work with Linus or Carmack. Not so much with Jensen.

by nailer 3y ago

This is Hacker News, I'm pretty sure there's no need to rename him from Jensen to 'NVIDIA CEO'. There's only one Carmack, one Linus, one DJB, one Elon and one Jensen.

tpxl 3y ago

I've no idea who DJB or Jensen are.

nailer 3y ago
DJB might be more of an privacy/infosec/Unix thing, so if you're a different type of programmer then fair enough. He is famous in crypto (as in cryptography) circles for: - Ed25519 for fast + safe asymmetric crypto - chacha/poly for fast symmetric crypto He is also famous in Unix circles for: - qmail - djbdns - his init system daemontools and a bunch of other bits. He also fought the US government for your right to use encryption when encryption was considered a munition. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein or https://cr.yp.to https://cr.yp.to Jensen is NVIDIA. Left MSI, took on the #1 competitor in the space (3DFX) and dominated them, responsible for things like CUDA and DLSS, now supplies the hardware for most of high end gaming and ML, has a two year advantage over AMD, appeared in his kitchen for an announcement once then a few months later told everyone that the entire scene was done with high quality physics based rendering and nobody knew.
- ShamelessC 3y ago
  I thought these types of explanations were unnecessary on Hacker News...
  - askin4it 3y ago
    I got scolded on HN today for calling readers of HN "hackers." Too much
  - nullsense 3y ago
    Doesn't mean absolutely everyone knows who absolutely everyone is.
  - nailer 3y ago
    TBH I do think people in tech for more than a few years shouldn't need an explanation for who Jensen is.

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago

Except it's not the name that makes him important, but the fact that he's at the helm of a big company like nVidia.

mercutio2 3y ago

Uh, what? I know everyone else on that list, but if your preceding sentence hadn't said "NVIDIA CEO" I would know zero about a "Jensen".

hoffs 3y ago

Linus tech tips?

ChatGTP 3y ago

Had no idea who Jensen was.

accoil 3y ago

Wasn't Sarif CEO though? Pretty certain Adam was Chief of Security.

ksec 3y ago

>This is Hacker News You would expect that. Except HN isn't very good with Hardware. It might have work with Linus or Carmack. Not so much with Jensen.