[gitgud]

> "He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (as confirmed by other rocket scientists). If that’s a “pseudo nerd”, who qualifies as a “real nerd”?"

If you don't code for 30 years, people might not call you a coder anymore.

Hotz on the other-hand still regular live-streams himself programming and hacking.

[ramraj07]

If anyone has to have the coding chops of Hotz to be called a nerd then we probably have only 50 nerds in the world. Y’all can definitely log off of HACKER NEWS since the news is definitely not for you!

[vntok]

It's not called Nerd News.

[agumonkey]

Last time I've heard of his streams he started on a grandiose project and bailed out when stuck after a few hours.