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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- The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
- Donald Trump's Superficiality Is Bone-Deep (www.theatlantic.com)
- Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
- The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
- Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
- Opus 4.6 solved one of Donald Knuth's conjectures [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- Donald Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- 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)
- Premature Optimization: How Donald Knuth "Skill Issued" Dijkstra (blog.slamdunk.software)
- Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es)
- 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)
- The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) (www.nytimes.com)
- Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
- Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
- Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
- MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are 'built on sand' (www.theguardian.com)