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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- Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es)
- Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
- Alan Kay on Donald Knuth (twitter.com)
- Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
- Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017) (yakshav.es)
- Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)
- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
- Donald Knuth: The Internal Details of Tex82 (1982) (www.youtube.com)
- Interview with Donald Knuth, with his opinions on multicore CPUs (www.informit.com)
- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
- Donald Knuth's Non-Tech Reading List (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- Donald Knuth – Writing a Compiler for the Burroughs Corporation [video] (www.youtube.com)
- Premature Optimization: How Donald Knuth "Skill Issued" Dijkstra (blog.slamdunk.software)
- TeX for Beginners – Session 1 (Donald Knuth, 1981) (www.youtube.com)
- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2025 – Adventures with Knight's Tours (online.stanford.edu)
- Interview with Donald Knuth (2008) (web.archive.org)
- Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (events.stanford.edu)
- Donald Knuth Quotes (www.brainyquote.com)
- The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) (www.nytimes.com)
- The Computer Scientist Who Can't Stop Telling Stories (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
- Donald E. Knuth's Homepage (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)