The mention of Jamie Zawinski[1] caught my eye; quoted in the article as owner of DNA Lounge in SF, he is probably known for many other things by HN dwellers: namer of Mozilla, one of Netscape's initial employees, Lisp hacker during the 80s/90s, and featured in Peter Seibel's book, Coders at Work (which is why the name stood out for me).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

Edit: typo