Bellard is a well-known software superhero, but I'm not sure there's much to discuss here.

Yep, and several of these articles have had solid exposure and discussion here in recent months/years, including in the past 24 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bellard.org

HN discussions are generally much better when there's a specific topic to discuss, rather than a list of articles.

It's always good to rehash it from time to time. Maybe there have been to many posts lately. But there must also be some deeper insight hidden in his work or life's history. I'm not the one to write that article though. :) But I'd like to read it.

Fabrice’s work is gold!

i propose the unit "bellard" as an asymptotic unit of developer productivity

I propose the millibellard as a convenient unit.

amendment accepted, although picobellard might be more useful in my case