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. A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) (kolja.rs)
   7 points by nk_kolja 5 days ago | 2 comments
2. Knuth versus Email (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
   3 points by thombles 16 days ago | discuss
3. Show HN: Knuth–Plass algorithm for short-form video (viki.wiki)
   2 points by richardprince4 14 days ago | 1 comments
4. The Future of Business Technology: Tools to Work Smarter (Octopus Intelligence) (www.octopusintelligence.com)
   2 points by knutmartin 27 days ago | discuss
5. Smart Business solutions helping businesses succeed (blog post) (www.portotheme.com)
   2 points by knutmartin 29 days ago | discuss
6. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (www.youtube.com)
   413 points by esbudylin over 1 year ago | 68 comments
7. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   304 points by bambax 3 months ago | 54 comments
8. Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)
   261 points by mean_mistreater 5 months ago | 184 comments
9. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
   239 points by archargelod about 1 month ago | 60 comments
10. Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
    207 points by glth over 1 year ago | 65 comments
11. Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web (justif.lyall.co)
    198 points by lyall about 1 month ago | 40 comments
12. Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper (probablydance.com)
    194 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 141 comments
13. Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)
    132 points by surprisetalk over 1 year ago | 134 comments
14. Knuth on ChatGPT (2023) (cs.stanford.edu)
    125 points by b-man about 1 year ago | 47 comments
15. Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video] (www.youtube.com)
    83 points by vismit2000 8 months ago | 10 comments
16. The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
    81 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago | 56 comments
17. Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth (www.youtube.com)
    62 points by tzury 3 months ago | 6 comments
18. Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
    62 points by vismit2000 8 months ago | 5 comments
19. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    37 points by MilnerRoute 8 months ago | 2 comments
20. Generalizing Knuth's Pseudocode Architecture From Algorithms to Knowledge (www.researchgate.net)
    33 points by isomorphist 5 months ago | 5 comments
21. Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check (orlp.net)
    23 points by g0xA52A2A 8 months ago | 2 comments
22. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer (research.swtch.com)
    16 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | discuss
23. Opus 4.6 solved one of Donald Knuth's conjectures [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    15 points by peterjliu 5 months ago | 1 comments
24. Donald Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    13 points by car 5 months ago | 3 comments
25. Curriculum Vitae of Donald E. Knuth [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    11 points by joebig over 1 year ago | 1 comments
26. Knuth's Algorithm X (en.wikipedia.org)
    10 points by jacquesm 10 months ago | discuss
27. Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper (probablydance.com)
    9 points by Bogdanp about 1 year ago | 2 comments
28. Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
    7 points by tzury 3 months ago | discuss
29. Donald Knuth "32 Years of Metafont" at the San Francisco Public Library [video] (www.youtube.com)
    6 points by gjvc 8 months ago | 1 comments
30. Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas lecture: 'strong' memories (thenewstack.io)
    6 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | discuss
31. Sorting with Fibonacci numbers, and a Knuth reward check (orlp.net)
    5 points by fanf2 8 months ago | discuss
32. Reconstructing the Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm (cambium.inria.fr)
    5 points by nsajko over 1 year ago | discuss
33. Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024 (learn.stanford.edu)
    5 points by mci over 1 year ago | discuss
34. Donald Knuth says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks (boingboing.net)
    4 points by taubek 6 months ago | 6 comments
35. Knuth Claude's Cycles note update: problem now fully solved, by LLMs (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
    4 points by fs123 5 months ago | 2 comments