Is there anything particularly special about his age to make such a big fuss about it? Sure, this thing is worth an article like that, but it's not the age that makes it remarkable. People this age can just be perfectly capable to do stuff like that. What would have changed in perception of this article if he was not 22, but 32 years old? Would it still be mentioned in the title?
<i>Horn wasn’t looking to discover a major vulnerability in the world’s computer chips</i><p>Maybe that's why he was the first to find it. He was looking where nobody else had thought to look, and he just so happened to have the combination of knowledge and resources (edit: and talent) to find a flaw there.
In typical hackernews fashion, most of the comment (even the top comment) is someone downplaying someone else's brilliance.<p>Why cant you just be happy for the kid?<p>Some people are just plain better than you. And its OKAY. Most of us here are average, and will probably never see our own success story published like this. Kid has done and contributed so much at a young age. He's clearly way above average, judging from the reaction of his peers in the netsec community. His skills has benefited us all. His achievement should be celebrated, not met with bitterness.
I miss all the time I used to have to screw around with random things in my teens and early twenties. There's way too much adulting getting in the way as you get older...
> When a fellow researcher asked him about another possible aspect of processor design that might be vulnerable to attack, Horn said, with a brief-but-telling smile: "I’ve been wondering about it but I have not looked into it."<p>Anyone who was at RWC2018 who can tell us what this item was? Presumably it's too technical for bloomberg's readership and not secret.