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I’m sorry, but could someone please elaborate on the significance of this post?

Sneakers is a very popular movie in the HN community. It's a great movie, well written, well cast, well acted, suspenseful, interesting, funny.

It beautifully captures the golden age.

BTW the writers also previously wrote WarGames, and you can see a lot of the same fingerprints...

Hacker culture.