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Re:Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019) by jonahss on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:56AM (#26521091)
Is this spam?
Re:Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019) by agstewart on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:33PM (#26526213)
I think it's humour, that magic numbers can be used to "create consensus" among operating systems, enabling portable binaries.

See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117