![Screenshot of gwern.net: The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/2/f40e3e6d-db7b-4d6b-8562-1f3d9460447c.jpg)
The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf](gwern.net)
292 points by suopspaces | 163 comments
A 1973 essay by mathematician Paul Halmos recounting the life, achievements, and legends of John von Neumann, presented as a scanned PDF.
![Screenshot of languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu: Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/7/11/af8c2f51-dbda-4e27-80c8-4b42e465dbc9.jpg)
First screen, captured .
Looks similar
![Screenshot of tomandmaria.com: Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/1/b4d72e53-57fb-489e-98ff-90821d31e684.jpg)
Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)
48 points by nill0 | 1 comments
A 2014 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper by Haigh, Priestley and Rope reconstructing the 1948 ENIAC Monte Carlo nuclear simulations run for Los Alamos.
William James at CERN (1995)(bactra.org)
25 points by benbreen | 4 comments
![Screenshot of users.cs.utah.edu: Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers (2011) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/30/5edac97a-385c-4174-8ab5-c8100d3249aa.jpg)
![Screenshot of erlang.org: Modelling Agent Systems with Erlang (2004) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/11/28/3cfee80c-a409-41f3-8093-4c9c960547e2.jpg)
