Well, HN is where rather technical discussions take place.
And from a technological viewpoint, some people here may find that swapping gzip/etc for brotli is not that astonishing.
After all, she didn't invent or implement Brotli, but merely applied it.
Note, this is not to denigrate her work in any way - the results, scaled at Google's level, are very impressive.
It is sad to see this turn into a gender-focused discussion, as I'm sure we'd see all the same "meh" comments here regardless of intern's gender or any other physical traits.
Also, I've noticed this trend where the top comment is attacking over-exaggerated "astounding negativity".
There's skepticism here under nearly every article, and the odd couple of dead, downvoted comments; not "astounding negativity" by any means.
While it's challenging to resist the desire to virtue signal and collect karma points, please don't exaggerate.
And from a technological viewpoint, some people here may find that swapping gzip/etc for brotli is not that astonishing. After all, she didn't invent or implement Brotli, but merely applied it.
Note, this is not to denigrate her work in any way - the results, scaled at Google's level, are very impressive.
It is sad to see this turn into a gender-focused discussion, as I'm sure we'd see all the same "meh" comments here regardless of intern's gender or any other physical traits.
Also, I've noticed this trend where the top comment is attacking over-exaggerated "astounding negativity". There's skepticism here under nearly every article, and the odd couple of dead, downvoted comments; not "astounding negativity" by any means. While it's challenging to resist the desire to virtue signal and collect karma points, please don't exaggerate.