I remember reading the cosmic rays article but did not know it was also written by ksplice, neat! Also, I'm not sure how well HN supports markdown. I was able

I remember reading the cosmic rays article but did not know it was also written by ksplice, neat! Also, I'm not sure how well HN supports markdown. I was able to use asterisks to get italics, but not square braces followed by parentheses for links. That was following github's cheat-sheet (go to github and press 'm' to see the markdown cheat-sheet).