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. Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson And others on the Unix system [video] (www.youtube.com)
   2 points by tzury 23 days ago | 1 comments
2. Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)
   260 points by dxs 5 months ago | 68 comments
3. A new oral history interview with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
   92 points by oldnetguy 5 months ago | 7 comments
4. That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler (micahkepe.com)
   80 points by thunderbong 5 months ago | 13 comments
5. Oral History of Ken Thompson [video] (www.youtube.com)
   28 points by alphazard 6 months ago | discuss
6. Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video] (www.youtube.com)
   15 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | 2 comments
7. Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" Compiler Backdoor – Source Code Released (2023) (micahkepe.com)
   7 points by birdculture 5 months ago | 1 comments
8. Oral History of Ken Thompson [video] (www.youtube.com)
   6 points by hamza_q_ 6 months ago | 1 comments
9. A Computing Legend Speaks – A New Oral History with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
   5 points by verdverm 6 months ago | 1 comments
10. Ken Thompson tells how he developed Go at Google (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by donatj 3 months ago | discuss
11. A Computing Legend Speaks – Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    3 points by janvdberg 5 months ago | discuss
12. A New Oral History with Ken Thompson (computerhistory.org)
    2 points by m-hodges 5 months ago | discuss
13. Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson) [pdf] (www.cs.cmu.edu)
    2 points by behnamoh over 1 year ago | discuss
14. Ken Thompson's Real-Time Code Rewrite: Why No One Knows James D. Johnston? (substack.com)
    1 points by birdculture 3 months ago | discuss
15. Ken Thompson Interviewed by Brian Kernighan (VCF East 2019) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by tosh almost 2 years ago | discuss
16. Saddest letters and texts written by programmers
    9 points by 01-_- 12 months ago | 2 comments
17. Ask HN: Who is your favorite historical person in computer science?
    6 points by heygarrison 10 months ago | 15 comments
18. Show HN: A Data Interchange Format (github.com)
    2 points by JohnMatthias about 2 months ago | discuss