Knuth reward check(thomas-huehn.com)
217 points by Curiositry | 76 comments
Personal blog post recounting finding an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and receiving his famous reward check twenty years ago.
#donald-knuth on Hacker News
4 stories tagged donald-knuth, newest first.
![Screenshot of www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu: Claude's Cycles [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/3/3/2c182f6b-c095-4e9b-98c7-8c15bc25b620.jpg)
Claude's Cycles [pdf](www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
742 points by fs123 | 311 comments
Don Knuth's note describing how Claude Opus 4.6 solved his open problem on decomposing a 3D torus digraph's arcs into three directed Hamiltonian cycles.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/2/7/720ae0bf-b2c0-4c40-9934-e183a489e75b.jpg)
Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video](youtube.com)
388 points by esbudylin | 63 comments
YouTube video of Donald Knuth's 2024 Stanford Christmas lecture on strong and weak components in graphs, posted by Stanford Online.
Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT(cs.stanford.edu)
805 points by talonx | 557 comments
A plain-text note by Donald Knuth recording twenty questions he posed to ChatGPT, with its answers and his commentary.