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I've no idea who DJB or Jensen are.
by tpxl 3y ago
I've no idea who DJB or Jensen are.
- nailer 3y agoDJB 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 agoI thought these types of explanations were unnecessary on Hacker News...