It looks like he merely created a website named after the law which is named after himself. Which is slightly less pompous.

Once someone has popularized a law in your name then it’s too late to change the name. For related reasons.

Titus is the head of the C++ org. He's pretty chill, not at all pompous like you seem to be implying.

I'm not implying anything about Titus, I'm implying something about Hyrum. Apparently he must have thought to himself: "Well, I'm still missing a name drop here for my credit-grabbing." If that name had been "Niklaus Wirth" or whatever, and it was Niklaus Wirth who put up the website, then, sure.

...but the best name he could come up with is a name only recognized by fellow Googlers and people attending highly specialist conferences, and he's going around telling people "Hey look, this super-smart thing that I once said. It's so cool. Look, this guy over here also thinks that I'm the one who deserves credit for it. This is so smart, it will blow your mind. Now listen up, ..."

If this kind of thing doesn't "pop" to you as a violation of social norms then you know you're living in a subpopulation where, basically, narcissism has gone endemic.

I think you are extrapolating a bit much from an almost in-joke in a community you aren't part of. Domains are cheap, putting up a website about something doesn't mean much.

I met the eponymous Hyrum; went to lunch with him on a social occasion that had nothing to do with software. He is a very nice guy and quite humble, in fact. Thoroughly good chap.

I too see the page as a bit pretentious, but life is so short and this small quantity hubris isn't going to lead to the starvation of orphans. Let people deploy some arrogance.

Most HN users do more damage to the world through their adtech careers than any blog post.

>Titus Winters guy (who I've never heard of)

He's well known from the talks he has given at CppCon.