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 the bug that exposed his compiler trojan (2021) (www.tuhs.org)
   224 points by throwawaylinux almost 2 years ago | 33 comments
2. The Ken Thompson Hack (wiki.c2.com)
   127 points by stephc_int13 about 1 year ago | 43 comments
3. Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999) (www.cs.princeton.edu)
   75 points by pncnmnp about 1 year ago | 30 comments
4. Trusting Trust: Ken Thompson on supply chain security (1984) (dl.acm.org)
   49 points by brianzelip about 1 year ago | 21 comments
5. Ubuntu is a Linux OS that was designed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (www.javatpoint.com)
   18 points by Ambolia almost 2 years ago | 8 comments
6. Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson (web.archive.org)
   13 points by idle_cycles over 1 year ago | discuss
7. Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (Turing Award Lecture, 1984) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
   4 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | discuss
8. Coding Machines – A short story about the Ken Thompson Hack (www.teamten.com)
   3 points by smig0 about 1 year ago | discuss
9. Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
   2 points by behnamoh 10 months ago | discuss
10. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain Unix (Bell Labs) (yt.hcrypt.net)
    2 points by udev4096 over 1 year ago | discuss
11. Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-Referencing C Compiler (scienceblogs.com)
    2 points by popcalc over 1 year ago | discuss
12. Ken Thompson Interviewed by Brian Kernighan (VCF East 2019) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by tosh about 1 year ago | discuss
13. Ken Thompson Interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019 (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by nyc111 over 1 year ago | discuss
14. Saddest letters and texts written by programmers
    9 points by 01-_- about 2 months ago | 2 comments