Don Knuth

Most-linked posts?

1. Knuth versus Email (1999)
   44 people · 47 mentions · first linked 2018-02-12
2. Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
   23 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2010-05-10
3. The Bank of San Serriffe
   16 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
4. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth
   16 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2020-02-18
5. Knuth: Literate Programming
   14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2018-04-01
6. Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]
   13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2026-03-03
7. Knuth vs. Email
   13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2007-04-01
8. Knuth's Bank of San Serriffe
   11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2011-04-23
9. /~knuth/organ.html
   10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-05-18
10. Financial Fiasco (Knuth, 2008)
    10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-01-21

What Hacker News says?

1. bingerman · 2020-05-31

   Knuth still does code basically on a daily basis. At least that's what he said in some interview (writing two complete programs per week on average, small and large, and that definitely qualifies him as software engineer among other things) and I have no reason to doubt it. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

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   on “Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?”
2. inetsee · 2022-10-04

   Submitted Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print as a story · 940 points

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3. ttepasse · 2025-04-16

   Knuth in the wake of the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraid crimes asked some "Infrequently Asked Questions" which are of course highly political. He kept this page linked on top of his home page. And in 2022 he wrote a postscript with more political questions. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html

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   on “CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]”
4. sfk · 2014-04-10

   Submitted Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) as a story · 523 points

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5. sanbor · 2018-03-24Recommends

   I'm not familiar enough with the details to deny that she didn't "spearhead" the Iraq War. However I'd like that a person that was involved in the wrong side of decision making for torturing people[1] and defending massive surveillance [2][3] to be as far as posible of a backup company. I suggest to visit http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ and https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/rice.html for more arguments against…

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   on “Congrats Dropbox”
6. ColinWright · 2022-07-29

   Submitted Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1 as a story · 300 points

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7. pjmorris · 2022-11-18

   What you describe is how I tend to comment. At the opposite end of the spectrum we have Knuth's 'literate programming', exemplified in Tex, which has as its goal 'making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun' [0] by merging documentation with code. I'd bet if you counted documentation lines vs. code lines in Tex they'd be near 50/50, and I'd bet that if we asked Knuth whe…

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   on “Fred Brooks has died”
8. taeric · 2015-07-03

   Submitted Current draft of The Art of Computer Programming pre-fascicle 6a [ps] as a story · 207 points

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9. carapace · 2019-11-27

   Yah... "Planet Without Laughter" https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html

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   on “Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA”
10. taeric · 2016-12-09

    Submitted Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica as a story · 191 points

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11. sedachv · 2016-11-14

    > I love Donald Knuth but let's face it, from a productivity standpoint he's strictly below average. In fact, Donald Knuth is so below average from a productivity standpoint that there is an entire book published about books and papers that Donald Knuth published: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cp.html

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    on ““I have toyota corola””
12. jackfoxy · 2010-04-11

    Submitted Donald Knuth making an Earthshaking Announcement June 30 in San Francisco as a story · 167 points

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13. jodrellblank · 2021-03-06

    You're fighting against Knuth: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

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    on “30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server”
14. MrXOR · 2020-08-27

    Submitted Knuth versus Email (1999) as a story · 158 points

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15. theonething · 2018-12-17

    As mentioned in the article he is also a devoted Christian and one of the smartest I know of. Some of his writings on the subject: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/things.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.html

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    on “The Yoda of Silicon Valley”
16. dermatthias · 2010-06-29

    Submitted Knuth's 'Earthshaking Announcement' due tomorrow as a story · 149 points

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17. maxtollenaar · 2018-12-17Recommends

    My favorite Knuth quote: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study."…

    Comment linking /~knuth/email.html

    on “The Yoda of Silicon Valley”
18. tambourine_man · 2017-06-09

    Submitted MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) as a story · 145 points

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19. r85804306610 · 2022-10-05

    his fvwm config is public, and there's a screenshot floating around, if you want to take a closer look https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/screen.jpeg the only mistake you won't be able to correct from observing screenshot is the "look like org-mode" thing. it's https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/color-mo... minor mode which lets you highlight arbitrary lines in a buffer.

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    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
20. dhruvbird · 2012-08-02

    Submitted Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps] as a story · 141 points

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21. azalemeth · 2022-10-04

    I once had the pleasure of listening to Knuth speak at my university's computer science department. I joined the very large queue of other people, and expected the great man to totally revolutionise my understanding of – well, I didn't know what, but something . Computer programming to TeX, I don't mind. I was expecting enlightening solutions to famously difficult problems, a great study of algorithms, that kind of…

    Comment linking /~knuth/paradox.pdf

    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
22. danso · 2015-09-16

    Submitted Programs to Read as a story · 133 points

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23. Jtsummers · 2022-10-04

    https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmixware.html - MMIXware by Knuth introduces the updated assembly. https://www.mmix.cs.hm.edu/supplement/index.html - The MMIX Supplement by Ruckert The first introduces the updated assembly language, the second updates all the MIX programs from Volumes 1-3 to MMIX.

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    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
24. michael_dorfman · 2008-10-30

    Submitted Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 as a story · 102 points

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25. lifthrasiir · 2022-10-04

    This comment made me check the history of the official TAOCP page [1] through the Wayback Machine. Volume 5 was estimated to be ready in 2009 at the very first snapshot (1997), in 2010 by 2003, in 2015 by 2007, in 2020 by 2010, in 2025 by 2015 which is the latest estimate today. At the first glance this looks like an eternal "10 years later", but note that that estimate didn't change since 2015 and the 2025 estimate…

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    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
26. jgrahamc · 2014-02-07

    Submitted The Firing Squad Problem as a story · 100 points

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27. kragen · 2022-10-04

    It may not be a coincidence that one of the author's other books is on Biblical studies: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.html I didn't realize it had been blurbed by a professor emeritus at a seminary (as well as Martin Gardner).

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    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
28. taeric · 2016-09-26

    Submitted 32 Years of Metafont [pdf] as a story · 96 points

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29. bugfix-66 · 2022-10-04

    I've been randomly skipping around inside these books for a long, long time. They're full of little gems that you won't find elsewhere. For example, in Volume 4A there's a simple technique for comparing two pointers in bit-reversed form. This technique was patented by Hewlett-Packard as a method of randomizing search trees (treaps): https://bugfix-66.com/fdb8bb4fa84cf810aa25ff40c88a13c1874410... From Volume 3, here…

    Comment linking /~knuth/boss.html

    on “Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print”
30. jdnier · 2019-05-18

    Submitted Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017) as a story · 93 points

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