cperciva. Originally &quot;found&quot; him when a user by the name of &quot;sanj&quot; responded to cperciva, pretty much flaming him and asking him if he won the Putnam, an annual math competition held in the US and CA for undergrads.<p>cperciva was making a few &quot;bold&quot; statements and sanj replied &quot;Did you win the Putnam?&quot; to which cperciva replies, &quot;Yes, I did.&quot; and later goes on to gloat a little bit saying, he considered his earlier score of 53 his most impressive considering he was 14 at the time.<p>A user called dbosson proceeds to calls him out on his gloating and talks about helping others. He replies with this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35120</a><p>The thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35015</a><p>It was one of the few times I&#x27;ve seen News.YC&#x2F;HN delve into the usual internet forum banter and not being disappointed with it.<p>You might know of cperciva also as the creator of Tarsnap. He&#x27;s very open about not being money-driven and the service continues to keep to its roots as a product only made for technologists. He&#x27;s not concerned with developing the product for Enterprise, nor marketing. He&#x27;s also someone who hasn&#x27;t bent to external pressure to further develop his product for anyone else. Everyone else is business-minded, the likes of patio11 included, who are practically screaming for him to take advantage of his brand and following to build up a company.. But he just doesn&#x27;t want to.<p>To me, he&#x27;s someone who&#x27;s truly gifted, not humble about it but doesn&#x27;t gloat in such a way that you feel like he&#x27;s going overboard. His claims are valid, he&#x27;s matter-of-factly saying statements that are all true. Akin to McGregor, a UFC fighter who always seems to predict how he&#x27;ll put the other fighter down in the interviews: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jJeziuaShow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jJeziuaShow</a><p>Sure there are an insane amount of people here I can admire and I follow incessantly because they&#x27;re such valuable sources of knowledge. But cperciva especially I can respect, because he just doesn&#x27;t seem to worry about whatever anyone else thinks or expects from him.