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. Premature Optimization: How Donald Knuth "Skill Issued" Dijkstra (blog.slamdunk.software)
   2 points by nickagliano 10 days ago | 1 comments
2. Knuth: Knight's Tours Writ Large (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
   1 points by ripe 10 days ago | discuss
3. Interview with Donald Knuth (2008) (web.archive.org)
   1 points by todsacerdoti 13 days ago | discuss
4. The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) (www.nytimes.com)
   5 points by Tomte 29 days ago | 1 comments
5. RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies (www.theguardian.com)
   170 points by KnuthIsGod 3 days ago | 78 comments
6. Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president's demands (www.theguardian.com)
   24 points by KnuthIsGod 27 days ago | 2 comments
7. Chinese jacket maker is now the biggest company, according to Bloomberg (www.ft.com)
   5 points by KnuthIsGod 23 days ago | 1 comments
8. Rescinding the Definition of "Harm" Under the Endangered Species Act (www.federalregister.gov)
   5 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | discuss
9. How Is Elon Musk Powering His Supercomputer? Fast and Loose in Memphis,as in D.C (www.newyorker.com)
   5 points by KnuthIsGod 26 days ago | discuss
10. Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory Amplified: Biden Is a Robotic Clone (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by KnuthIsGod about 2 hours ago | discuss
11. Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-based Email, Browser, and Search (www.wired.com)
    3 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | discuss
12. Derek Lowe: The Continuing Crisis, Part XIV (www.science.org)
    3 points by KnuthIsGod 25 days ago | discuss
13. Executive Order on Building the National Garden of American Heroes (2021) (trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov)
    2 points by KnuthIsGod 1 day ago | discuss
14. Huawei AI CloudMatrix 384 – China's Answer to Nvidia GB200 NVL72 100% Optics (semianalysis.com)
    2 points by KnuthIsGod 29 days ago | discuss
15. Pegasus spyware creator ordered to pay WhatsApp $168M for 2019 hack (www.ft.com)
    1 points by KnuthIsGod 26 days ago | 1 comments
16. RAAF recruit had chilli in eyes and was set afire and choked in hazing ritual (www.dailytelegraph.com.au)
    1 points by KnuthIsGod 4 days ago | discuss
17. Tech unicorn Immutable cuts staff as AI bots replace jobs (www.afr.com)
    1 points by KnuthIsGod 12 days ago | discuss
18. The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch (slate.com)
    133 points by prawn 12 days ago | 16 comments
19. The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch (slate.com)
    3 points by onychomys 18 days ago | discuss
20. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (www.youtube.com)
    413 points by esbudylin 4 months ago | 68 comments
21. Donald Knuth’s 2023 Christmas Lecture: Making the Cells Dance (thenewstack.io)
    264 points by howrude over 1 year ago | 24 comments
22. Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
    255 points by toinewx over 1 year ago | 182 comments
23. Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
    207 points by glth 3 months ago | 65 comments
24. Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf] (cs.stanford.edu)
    190 points by kbradero about 1 year ago | 100 comments
25. Knuth–Morris–Pratt illustrated (www.cambridge.org)
    189 points by g0xA52A2A about 1 year ago | 46 comments
26. Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers (taylor.town)
    159 points by schmudde over 1 year ago | 50 comments
27. Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing (pncnmnp.github.io)
    151 points by pncnmnp over 1 year ago | 51 comments
28. This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002) (www.larry.denenberg.com)
    139 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 29 comments
29. Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)
    132 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 134 comments
30. 30 years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' are online – including 2023's (science.slashdot.org)
    128 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | 10 comments
31. Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2023 (learn.stanford.edu)
    97 points by mci over 1 year ago | 5 comments
32. Don Knuth's MIP, 64 years later (nathanbrixius.wordpress.com)
    80 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 55 comments
33. Alan Kay on Donald Knuth (twitter.com)
    71 points by tosh about 1 year ago | 39 comments
34. Knuth's 20 Questions for ChatGPT (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    70 points by _ZeD_ over 1 year ago | 23 comments
35. Knuth and Plass line-breaking revisited (2007) (defoe.sourceforge.net)
    32 points by tosh about 1 year ago | 2 comments
36. Donald E. Knuth's Homepage (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    29 points by dorkwood about 1 year ago | 12 comments
37. Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017) (yakshav.es)
    27 points by MontagFTB about 1 year ago | 5 comments
38. Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    11 points by joebig 6 months ago | 1 comments
39. Show HN: I Created a Rust Crate to Handle KMP (Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm) (crates.io)
    9 points by Tom0427 over 1 year ago | discuss
40. Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn? (thenewstack.io)
    6 points by subomi almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
41. Donald Knuth Asked ChatGPT 20 Questions. What Did We Learn? (thenewstack.io)
    6 points by miohtama almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
42. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)
    6 points by MilnerRoute 5 months ago | discuss
43. A Very Bad Estimator – With Donald Knuth (www.numberphile.com)
    6 points by JamesCoyne over 1 year ago | discuss
44. Don Knuth Code Review (github.com)
    5 points by signa11 over 1 year ago | 2 comments
45. Reconstructing the Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm (cambium.inria.fr)
    5 points by nsajko about 2 months ago | discuss
46. Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
    5 points by mci 6 months ago | discuss
47. Interview with Donald Knuth, with his opinions on multicore CPUs (www.informit.com)
    4 points by fanf2 4 months ago | 1 comments
48. Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
    4 points by mci 6 months ago | 1 comments
49. Strong Components and Weak Components: 2024 Annual Christmas Lecture, Don Knuth [video] (www.youtube.com)
    4 points by matt_d 6 months ago | discuss