Hey Matt! I'm surprised you didn't have an account before, although I guess lurking's a lot easier around these parts.

I just wanted to let you know that I've been a really big fan for a really long time, and you are part of the reason I'm so openly nerdy and excited about math and science in general. Thanks for all of the amazing content you put out.

Also, Let me know if you're gonna be in the Boston area any time. I'd love to buy you a pint.

Hi Matt! Great to see you're doing so well!

(Fellow UWA alum and Slime Volleyball ex-World-Champion here. :D )

Hello! It’s been a long time since playing slime volleyball on translucent iMacs.

Does it cover the Parker Square?

Hi Matt, great to see you here, I enjoyed your performance at freenode.live last year in Bristol.

Thanks! I enjoyed that evening in the museum. My spherical camera is still working as well.

wait... you are on freenode irc network too or just attending the freenode.live event?

Sadly I was only hanging out at the live event (as the so-called “entertainment”).

Didn't expect to see you posting here either. Anyway, thanks for teaching me what a sausage catastrophe is!

Did you use a "maths mistake" in HN to get yourself here? ;-)

That is a great observation. It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk.

http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd

> That is a great observation.

I couldn't agree more.

> It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk. http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd

Looks like I'm going to finish my christmas shopping early boys. Are the floppy disks 3 1/2 or 5 1/4?

They are 3½. We’re not monsters.

720KB LD I would hope. You need to maximise compatibility! Not all of us can afford those new fangled HD or ED drives!

You're probably thinking it's a bit suspicious seeing that the account was made 62 minutes after the post was submitted. It could be that the user just browses HN regularly, saw this post about him, and wanted to separate his comment histories from his main account.

Yes: I normally lurk on HN. But people started messaging me when this reached the top, of course. I can confirm I don’t know or have any connection with the OP.

I can share how it happened. I logged into HN today to read more about the Apple/Amazon/China news, then almost spat out my coffee when I saw Matt was #1 on Hacker News. I went to high school & university with Matt, so it felt really surreal, and I immediately tweeted Matt to tell him:

https://twitter.com/syneryder/status/1048507531352571904

I can confirm all of this is true. I mean, I don’t know how close SyneRyder was to spitting out coffee (or even if they were drinking coffee? how deep does this go?) but everything else is a fact.

that url is dangerous.

it uses a strategy which is mainly utilized by phishing websites to mask the legitimacy of a fqdn. Its also http, so easily modified by hostile parties.

imo a very poor idea considering how you ultimately end up on a shop. i know its just a 301 redirect vhost, but nonetheless...