{
  "id": 10790855,
  "title": "Fabrice Bellard: The Genius Behind the Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/fabrice-bellard-the-genius-behind-the-internets-hidden-infrastructure",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-29T19:00:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/fabrice-bellard-the-genius-behind-the-internets-hidden-infrastructure?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Fabrice Bellard is a programmer who has written code used in various aspects of the internet, from video to cell towers. He is known for computing nearly 2.7 trillion digits of pi on a desktop computer, setting a world record. Bellard does not give interviews and prefers to work in a quiet room with a computer. His website, bellard.org, is a simple list of links to various software projects he has developed, including FFmpeg, QEMU, and a neural-network compressor. His approach to software development emphasizes efficiency and minimalism, avoiding common modern engineering practices. Despite his achievements, Bellard remains a figure shrouded in mystery, with little visual representation of himself online.",
  "summary": "Fabrice Bellard wrote the code that carries the world's video, spins up its clouds, and speaks to its cell towers. But this ultimate coder has no face.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}