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Post with more details on the financial situation: https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html

It's quite candid and interesting to read. For those of you that don't know jwz, you may know:

- He was one of the first employees at Netscape and came up with the name Mozilla

- He maintains XScreenSaver

- jwz's law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

- Originally maintained XEmacs.

Clicking the link leads to some balls.

If he really doesn't want his stuff to be seen, why is it being posted here on this site? There are way too many interesting things made by people who want them to be seen for me to waste my time fighting someone to see the stuff they've made.

Ah yeah, forgot about that, sorry. jwz really does not like hn at all. He's clearly a really smart guy, and all of us on hn benefit from what he's done. But at the same time I wish he'd take maciej's approach to criticizing the bad parts of HN (with snarky tweets and great writing, two things HN loves) as opposed to a redirect to a picture of testicles.

Are there a lot of "finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers" here? Yeah. But this is also one of a few places on the open Internet where there are a lot of really interesting, really smart people in one place, and rejecting it wholesale would be sad.

I suspect he set up the redirection before HN was opened up beyond the ycombinator set.

Note that JWZ blocks links to his site from HN; if you click on the link in the parent, dnalounge.com redirects you to a childish NSFW image with an insulting phrase about Hacker News.

Cutting and pasting the URL into another tab works.

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