Ask HN: Who do you consider a genius in the CS world?

Donald Knuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth)

Leslie Lamport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport)

Ian Goodfellow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goodfellow)

Just to name a few....

Jeff Lindsay- @progrium. Invented webhooks, co-created Docker, started Dokku.

Fabrice Bellard

Linus Torvalds