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Also if I read "kb executable", I assume one kb. Just like when I read "backpack computer", I assume it fits in one backpack.

It's 12 kB, aka 96 kb.

The HN submission's title is not even the article's title, which is "How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need To Be?"

As pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649569 , this is probably HN autoremoving numbers from the start of titles to combat blog spam titles like "12 reasons to switch to XYZ".

> In 383 bytes we've managed to achieve garbage collection, lazy lists, and tail recursion.

wat

If you get a scientific education, the importance of clearly noting your units is drilled into you. Programmers with their non-STEM laxity smh :p

That’s more likely HN reformatting titles.

HN auto-title cases submissions titles and removes any numbers prefixing the title string. So “7 KB” would be changed to “Kb”.

That bit-encoded lambda calculus is nuts!

As you wish. kB for kibibytes.