[ForOldHack]

This is literally a brilliant idea. This guy needs a Macarthur grant now. Even if he rewrites half of all the broken shit we have, (and takes all of 20 years to do it) the world will be a better place. Except for _ which will always be a ___ hole.

[keepamovin]

There's enough money on HN (the demographics) that some wealthy benefactors in a WhatsApp group could just donate it to him. No excuses, get behind ICs.

Of course, back in Renaissance days it was the ICs/artists job to court benefactors -- though sometimes they did approach unsolicited.

Maybe he already has patronage but he doesn't want to flash it around...

[ForOldHack]

Redmond.

This guy should have had a Macarthur grant a decade ago.

The list of brilliant stuff he has done is longer than my arm, and I have long arms.

[melvinroest]

Just writing a comment here to support this idea as much as I can on HN.

I also upvoted all the comments mentioning that he should have a grant. In my opinion, he really should have.

[throwaway2037]

As I understand, he was born in France, so probably a French national. According to Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program), he needs to be a citizen or resident of the US to qualify. Bummer. Better idea: Get some crypto-bros to donate 5-10B USD in Bitcoin into a foundation so we can create the international version.