Computing & Software

208 Wikipedia articles in this topic discovered via Hacker News

• Cyc ▲ 357
• Kelly Criterion ▲ 330
• Kateryna Yushchenko ▲ 328
• Ward Christensen ▲ 323
• _NSAKEY ▲ 254
• Dennis Ritchie ▲ 243
• CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type ▲ 229
• Looped Square Or ⌘ ▲ 225
• Yahoo Pipes ▲ 224
• Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS ▲ 218
• Rope (data structure) ▲ 217
• DRAKON ▲ 213
• Project Cybersyn ▲ 212
• PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law ▲ 211
• “Bush Hid the Facts” ▲ 206
• Oberon Operating System ▲ 196
• Year 2038 problem ▲ 194
• Microsoft Comic Chat ▲ 192
• Grace Hopper ▲ 190
• I never realized how useful netcat is ▲ 190
• Better Portable Graphics ▲ 186
• Miller Columns ▲ 177
• Karatsuba Algorithm ▲ 170
• SoftICE ▲ 168
• Burrows–Wheeler Transform ▲ 162
• MSX-DOS ▲ 161
• Polytope Model ▲ 157
• VRML ▲ 150
• Reversible Computing ▲ 149
• Man or boy test ▲ 148
• Wang tile ▲ 145
• Flashsort ▲ 141
• Fork Bomb ▲ 140
• Mach kernel ▲ 139
• Lambda Cube ▲ 139
• WikiWikiWeb ▲ 137
• Ralf Brown's Interrupt List ▲ 136
• Morris worm ▲ 134
• Yoda conditions ▲ 133
• Antiobjects ▲ 133
• Project Xanadu ▲ 132
• The Amiga Smart File System ▲ 129
• Zero one infinity rule ▲ 128
• C Minus Minus ▲ 128
• Koomey's law ▲ 128
• Constraint Programming ▲ 125
• Fourth-generation programming language ▲ 120
• Amdahl's Law ▲ 118
• Langton's ant ▲ 118
• Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater ▲ 113
• BonziBuddy ▲ 111
• Cowsay ▲ 106
• Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound ▲ 106
• ‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB ▲ 105
• Stack-Oriented Programming ▲ 103
• Sensorvault ▲ 101
• Heisenbug ▲ 100
• Piet is a programming language, whose programs look like abstract art. ▲ 99
• KaiOS ▲ 98
• Two Generals' Problem ▲ 97
• Mojibake ▲ 95
• Base58 ▲ 95
• SIMH ▲ 92
• Overlapping markup ▲ 92
• AT&T Hobbit ▲ 92
• Father of the moderm tiling WMs proposed for deletion in Wikipedia. ▲ 92
• Cyclomatic complexity ▲ 91
• Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies ▲ 91
• Aspect-oriented programming ▲ 90
• Tiresias typeface ▲ 86
• NeWS – Network Extensible Window System ▲ 86
• DeCSS Haiku ▲ 85
• Comparison of X Window Managers ▲ 85
• SNOBOL ▲ 84
• Cybernetic Culture Research Unit ▲ 82
• Coherent OS ▲ 82
• FRACTRAN ▲ 82
• Go! -- the non-Google programming language by Keith Clark and Francis McCabe. ▲ 82
• Law of Demeter ▲ 81
• MISRA C ▲ 80
• Hashlife ▲ 80
• Accumulo: NSA's Apache-licensed BigTable-based key-value store ▲ 79
• SHA-3 NIST announcement controversy ▲ 77
• Higher-order abstract syntax ▲ 76
• Damm algorithm ▲ 75
• Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site ▲ 75
• Evercookie ▲ 75
• BRL-CAD ▲ 74
• PL/0 ▲ 73
• Shoelace formula ▲ 73
• IBM System/360 Model 67 ▲ 73
• Phantom OS, a Russian OS where “everything is an object” ▲ 72
• Michigan Terminal System ▲ 71
• .DS_Store ▲ 71
• Scunthorpe Problem ▲ 71
• M4 (computer language) ▲ 70
• Expect – automates programs that expose a text terminal interface ▲ 69
• One instruction set computer ▲ 69
• Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable ▲ 67
• The Telescript programming language ▲ 66
• Karnaugh map ▲ 66
• Sabre (computer system) ▲ 65
• Turing Tarpit ▲ 65
• Homotopy Type Theory ▲ 64
• Gray Goo ▲ 64
• Sharp X68000 ▲ 64
• WTFPL ▲ 64
• Utau – a Japanese singing synthesizer application ▲ 63
• Machine Identification Code ▲ 62
• Pieter Hintjens ▲ 62
• Digital physics ▲ 62
• Wikipedia list of algorithms ▲ 62
• Program slicing ▲ 59
• Schönhage–Strassen Algorithm ▲ 58
• GObject ▲ 58
• Full employment theorem ▲ 58
• Top 500 supercomputers by processor family ▲ 57
• Modelica ▲ 57
• Bremermann's limit ▲ 57
• Williams tube – cathode ray tube used as computer memory ▲ 57
• The Occam programming language ▲ 56
• Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms ▲ 56
• Project Cybersyn: real-time computer control of a planned economy (1970-1973) ▲ 56
• Rocky Mountain Basic ▲ 55
• Warren Abstract Machine ▲ 55
• Toom–Cook multiplication ▲ 55
• Merkle Tree ▲ 53
• HAKMEM ▲ 53
• N8VEM – Homebrew Computing Project ▲ 52
• Lehmer sieve ▲ 52
• Microsoft Creative Writer (1993) ▲ 51
• Iloveyou ▲ 51
• Five Minute Rule ▲ 51
• A* ▲ 50
• Time formatting and storage bugs ▲ 47
• LOLCODE ▲ 47
• Everything is a file ▲ 44
• P versus NP ▲ 44
• Nothing-up-my-sleeve number ▲ 43
• The Skip list ▲ 43
• Help wanted: Seasoned wikipedia editors to write a proper article about Fravia ▲ 43
• Finnix ▲ 42
• CipherSaber - A 'political' encryption cipher ▲ 42
• PhotoDNA ▲ 41
• SCOOP: Simple Concurrent Object Oriented Programming ▲ 41
• Arachne: a self-contained graphical web browser for DOS and Linux ▲ 41
• Malbolge (programming language) ▲ 41
• Blinkenlights ▲ 40
• CAR and CDR ▲ 40
• Grey goo ▲ 40
• Soar (cognitive architecture) ▲ 39
• HAL/S Syntax ▲ 38
• 86-DOS ▲ 38
• Zero to the Power of Zero ▲ 38
• Object Oriented Role Analysis and Modeling ▲ 38
• Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License ▲ 38
• Amoeba (operating system) ▲ 37
• BBCode ▲ 36
• Dhrystone ▲ 36
• Floyd–Hoare logic ▲ 36
• Plan9 – A Distributed Operating System ▲ 35
• PGPfone (1995) ▲ 35
• Interactive EasyFlow ▲ 34
• Alan Kay turns 80 today! Happy Birthday! ▲ 33
• The Lucid programming language ▲ 33
• Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming ▲ 32
• IBM Common User Access ▲ 32
• Mary Kenneth Keller ▲ 32
• Mozilla made $436M from search deals in 2018 ▲ 32
• X Window System: Principles ▲ 32
• Note G ▲ 31
• OpenSSI is an open-source single-system image clustering system ▲ 31
• Knapsack problem ▲ 31
• Cluster (spacecraft) ▲ 29
• Minimalism (computing) ▲ 29
• Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging ▲ 28
• Captive portal ▲ 27
• Macintosh Common Lisp ▲ 27
• OpenDoc ▲ 27
• Surface-conduction electron-emitter display ▲ 26
• Ousterhout's Dichotomy ▲ 26
• Nagle's Algorithm ▲ 25
• Proxmox ▲ 25
• Weissman Score ▲ 25
• Comparison of parser generators ▲ 25
• Linux Router Project ▲ 24
• Wim Taymans ▲ 24
• ArcaOS ▲ 24
• Compound File Binary Format ▲ 23
• Graffiti (Palm OS) ▲ 23
• Linda coordination language ▲ 23
• SCO–Linux disputes ▲ 22
• Tab-separated values ▲ 22
• Christmas Tree EXEC ▲ 22
• One Laptop per Child ▲ 22
• Codd's cellular automaton ▲ 21
• rwall Incident (1987) ▲ 21
• Waterfox browser ▲ 21
• Schwartzian Transform ▲ 21
• The Whitespace programming language ▲ 21
• Icon (programming language) ▲ 21
• Circle-Ellipse Problem ▲ 21
• Dancing Links (A very useful hack by Knuth) ▲ 21
• Non-blocking synchronization ▲ 21
• Bozo Bit ▲ 20
• Unix philosophy ▲ 20
• Homoiconicity ▲ 20
• ACT-R: A cognitive architecture ▲ 20