I imagine Daniel wouldn't have trouble getting a job with a YC company, if he were so inclined. If we were hiring (couple more months...), we'd certainly talk to him.
It's amazing how it's never the guys with the blogs full of bombastic prose that really blow you away, it's the guys who just engineer something fantastic.
This should be exhibit A, B, and C in the death of the idea of the "rockstar programmer".
That hack was damned impressive for breadth and depth of knowledge, pretty rare in my experience.