Unfortunately, stuff that is interesting to hackers isn't necessarily what they're up to right now. As long as these things pass a certain threshold of interest

Unfortunately, stuff that is interesting to hackers isn't necessarily what they're up to right now. As long as these things pass a certain threshold of interesting or cool, they've caught us. Massive flocking (Boids) simulations on GPGPUs, esoteric bloom filter implementations, optimising instructions on the 6502, cutting edge machine learning research across 2k cores, ... This curiousity is what, in my mind, makes the community so interesting. Unfortunately it's also what leaves so many of us stuck in the mud, obsessively reading articles from each and every frontier of our hacker world. Then there are those entrepreneurs who have read nothing yet stumble their way to success. The code is atrocious, their algorithms mind boggling, but they're the ones with the customers. The customers might be complaining, yes, but there's almost always time to fix the product, especially when you have both the motivation and money from those customers pushing you. Edit: Yes, yes, yes, my mind took a brief vacation and decided to reignite a decade old tag line from elsewhere. Skip the one small issue and pay attention to the content of my post -- I don't think a single error warrants downvoting.