Hackernews posts about Knuth

Knuth is Donald Ervin Knuth, an American computer scientist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of computer science.

1. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer (research.swtch.com)
   2 points by KnuthIsGod 29 days ago | discuss
2. Two Notes on Notation (Knuth, 1992) (arxiv.org)
   1 points by tosh 10 days ago | discuss
3. Two notes on notation (Knuth, 1992) (arxiv.org)
   1 points by tosh 27 days ago | discuss
4. Show HN: Hyphenate.dev: illustration of TeX's hyphenation algorithm (hyphenate.dev)
   5 points by returningfory2 24 days ago | 2 comments
5. BYD will pay for any damage caused using it's autonomous driving technology (www.drive.com.au)
   6 points by KnuthIsGod 28 days ago | 1 comments
6. Bitcoin is cratering, but there is a new Wall Street crypto HYPE (www.cnbc.com)
   6 points by KnuthIsGod 27 days ago | discuss
7. I'm a Philosophy Professor. Here's Why I'm Training AI to Replace Me (www.chronicle.com)
   4 points by KnuthIsGod 27 days ago | discuss
8. The US Needs Mechanics and Electricians.Big Business Is Spending to Create Some (www.wsj.com)
   3 points by KnuthIsGod 27 days ago | discuss
9. They don't make them like this anymore (www.knut.fyi)
   3 points by jeffinpdx 30 days ago | discuss
10. Show HN: Cited – a searchable index of what experts recommend on podcasts (cited.co)
    2 points by knothacker 11 days ago | 1 comments
11. Incoming: Vanguard On-Demand (www.riotgames.com)
    4 points by Nuthen 10 days ago | 3 comments
12. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (www.youtube.com)
    413 points by esbudylin over 1 year ago | 68 comments
13. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    304 points by bambax about 1 month ago | 54 comments
14. Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)
    261 points by mean_mistreater 3 months ago | 184 comments
15. Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
    207 points by glth over 1 year ago | 65 comments
16. Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper (probablydance.com)
    194 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 141 comments
17. Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)
    132 points by surprisetalk over 1 year ago | 134 comments
18. Knuth on ChatGPT (2023) (cs.stanford.edu)
    125 points by b-man 11 months ago | 47 comments
19. Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video] (www.youtube.com)
    83 points by vismit2000 6 months ago | 10 comments
20. The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
    81 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 56 comments
21. Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth (www.youtube.com)
    62 points by tzury about 2 months ago | 6 comments
22. Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
    62 points by vismit2000 6 months ago | 5 comments
23. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    37 points by MilnerRoute 6 months ago | 2 comments
24. Generalizing Knuth's Pseudocode Architecture From Algorithms to Knowledge (www.researchgate.net)
    33 points by isomorphist 4 months ago | 5 comments
25. Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check (orlp.net)
    23 points by g0xA52A2A 6 months ago | 2 comments
26. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer (research.swtch.com)
    16 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago | discuss
27. Opus 4.6 solved one of Donald Knuth's conjectures [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    15 points by peterjliu 4 months ago | 1 comments
28. Donald Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    13 points by car 3 months ago | 3 comments
29. Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    11 points by joebig over 1 year ago | 1 comments
30. Knuth's Algorithm X (en.wikipedia.org)
    10 points by jacquesm 9 months ago | discuss
31. Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper (probablydance.com)
    9 points by Bogdanp about 1 year ago | 2 comments
32. Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
    7 points by tzury about 2 months ago | discuss
33. Donald Knuth "32 Years of Metafont" at the San Francisco Public Library [video] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by gjvc 6 months ago | 1 comments
34. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)
    6 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | discuss
35. Sorting with Fibonacci numbers, and a Knuth reward check (orlp.net)
    5 points by fanf2 6 months ago | discuss
36. Reconstructing the Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm (cambium.inria.fr)
    5 points by nsajko about 1 year ago | discuss
37. Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
    5 points by mci over 1 year ago | discuss
38. Donald Knuth says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks (boingboing.net)
    4 points by taubek 4 months ago | 6 comments
39. Knuth Claude's Cycles note update: problem now fully solved, by LLMs (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    4 points by fs123 4 months ago | 2 comments
40. Knuth Claude's Cycles note update: problem now fully solved by LLMs (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    4 points by fs123 4 months ago | 2 comments
41. Donald Knuth: The Internal Details of Tex82 (1982) (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by brudgers 6 months ago | 1 comments