Hackernews posts about Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson is a renowned computer scientist and programmer best known for designing the original Unix operating system and developing the first compiler-based Trojan horse.

  1. Ken Thompson on AI (www.tuhs.org)
    2 points by thefilmore 5 days ago | discuss
  2. Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)
    260 points by dxs 10 months ago | 68 comments
  3. A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    92 points by oldnetguy 10 months ago | 7 comments
  4. That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler (micahkepe.com)
    80 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 13 comments
  5. Oral History of Ken Thompson [video] (www.youtube.com)
    28 points by alphazard 10 months ago | discuss
  6. Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video] (www.youtube.com)
    15 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 2 comments
  7. Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" Compiler Backdoor – Source Code Released (2023) (micahkepe.com)
    7 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 1 comments
  8. Oral History of Ken Thompson [video] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by hamza_q_ 10 months ago | 1 comments
  9. A Computing Legend Speaks – A New Oral History with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    5 points by verdverm 10 months ago | 1 comments
  10. Ken Thompson tells how he developed Go at Google (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by donatj 8 months ago | discuss
  11. A Computing Legend Speaks – Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    3 points by janvdberg 10 months ago | discuss
  12. Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson And others on the Unix system [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by tzury 5 months ago | 1 comments
  13. The Unix Timesharing System 1974: Denis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson (dl.acm.org)
    2 points by KnuthIsGod 3 months ago | discuss
  14. A New Oral History with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    2 points by m-hodges 10 months ago | discuss
  15. Ken Thompson's Real-Time Code Rewrite: Why No One Knows James D. Johnston? (substack.com)
    1 points by birdculture 7 months ago | discuss
  16. Saddest letters and texts written by programmers
    9 points by 01-_- over 1 year ago | 2 comments
  17. Ask HN: Who is your favorite historical person in computer science?
    6 points by heygarrison about 1 year ago | 15 comments
  18. Ask HN: Does Syntax Highlighting Help?
    2 points by mihaigmarin 4 months ago | 4 comments
  19. Show HN: A Data Interchange Format (github.com)
    2 points by JohnMatthias 6 months ago | discuss