Thanks! Happy to have my comment hidden by the mods if they get around to it.

> you'd rather say Andreessen-Horowitz, which is just as arbitrary as a16z

Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z. Reading the title i thought it will be about the cryptography serialisation specification. Turns out i was mixing it up with ASN.1.

> Their website is literally a16z.com

I hear now. Before this if pressed i would have guessed that they probably have a website indeed. If you would have twisted my arm my guess would have been andersenhorovitz.com (yup, with the typos. I learned the correct spelling today from your comment.)

> exceedingly relevant for the HN audience

We contain multitudes.

I'll be honest - I was thinking authorization (a11n?) - so I didn't read it closely enough. But despite that, and being on HN from almost the beginning (with a different account I lost the password to), I still didn't know what a16z was, though I do recognize Andreessen-Horowitz.

Sorry, I come here for hacker content.

The guidelines require using the same title on HN as is on the original post.