Hackernews posts about Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth is a renowned computer scientist and mathematician, also known for his humorous writings on topics such as work habits, problem solving, and happiness.

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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth (www.christiancentury.org)
4 points by senor_digimon 24 days ago | 6 comments
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (www.youtube.com)
413 points by esbudylin over 1 year ago | 68 comments
The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
304 points by bambax 4 months ago | 54 comments
Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
207 points by glth over 1 year ago | 65 comments
The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
81 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 56 comments
Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth (www.youtube.com)
62 points by tzury 4 months ago | 6 comments
Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
37 points by MilnerRoute 9 months ago | 2 comments
Opus 4.6 solved one of Donald Knuth's conjectures [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
15 points by peterjliu 6 months ago | 1 comments
Donald Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
13 points by car 5 months ago | 3 comments
Donald Knuth "32 Years of Metafont" at the San Francisco Public Library [video] (www.youtube.com)
6 points by gjvc 9 months ago | 1 comments
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)
6 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | discuss
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
5 points by mci almost 2 years ago | discuss
Donald Knuth says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks (boingboing.net)
4 points by taubek 6 months ago | 6 comments
Donald Knuth: The Internal Details of Tex82 (1982) (www.youtube.com)
4 points by brudgers 9 months ago | 1 comments
Interview with Donald Knuth, with his opinions on multicore CPUs (www.informit.com)
4 points by fanf2 over 1 year ago | 1 comments
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
4 points by mci almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
Stanford Lecture – Strong Components and Weak Components, Dr. Donald Knuth 2024 [video] (www.youtube.com)
3 points by matt_d over 1 year ago | discuss
Premature Optimization: How Donald Knuth "Skill Issued" Dijkstra (blog.slamdunk.software)
2 points by nickagliano over 1 year ago | 1 comments
ACM ByteCast Episode 2 Donald Knuth (learning.acm.org)
1 points by Alien1Being 2 months ago | 1 comments
Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es)
1 points by susam 8 months ago | discuss
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2025 – Adventures with Knight's Tours (online.stanford.edu)
1 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | discuss
Interview with Donald Knuth (2008) (web.archive.org)
1 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | discuss
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (events.stanford.edu)
1 points by bsilvereagle almost 2 years ago | discuss
Show HN: Hyphenate.dev: illustration of TeX's hyphenation algorithm (hyphenate.dev)
5 points by returningfory2 3 months ago | 2 comments
Is there some way to better understand TAOCP Vol 1 by Knuth?
2 points by justanything over 1 year ago | 1 comments
Is there some way to better understand TAOCP Vol 1 by Knuth?
1 points by justanything over 1 year ago | 2 comments
The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) (www.nytimes.com)
5 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 1 comments
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
239 points by archargelod 2 months ago | 60 comments
Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
62 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 5 comments
Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
11 points by joebig almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
7 points by tzury 4 months ago | discuss