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It's both. That's why.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 from way back when.

I thought it was a Chinese name

Related: My daughter's second grade teacher was Mrs. Emily Chewning, of Scottish extraction. She told me that when the first parent-teacher conferences happened, a number of parents were surprised at her appearance: kids always referred to her as "Miss Chew" and from the sound of the name, parents assumed she was Chinese.

You shouldn't just mention her full name like that lol bruh

Same! I think I'm going to keep referring to Dan G as dang, cause it's a really endearing name for a moderator in my opinion.

I thought it was a surname Dang.

"Woo sh"!

Joking aside, if there were to be forum awards, Hacker News would top it all the time. Best moderated, high level, most interesting discussion forum award goes to ...

Most of my family is Asian. It was self-evident to me for the last six or so years that he was Vietnamese :0