5 stories tagged history-of-computing, newest first.
![Screenshot of math.pku.edu.cn: A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/446ed254-a594-4c6a-bf1e-57d899482389.jpg)
27 points by mbustamanter | 4 comments
Gerald Farin's paper giving a historical account of curves and surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design up to the mid-1980s.
76 points by list | 47 comments
Pessimists Archive newsletter post on the 1976 computer-assisted proof of the Four Color Theorem and the debate it sparked among mathematicians.
544 points by glimshe | 428 comments
Blog post by Stephan Schwab on why businesses have tried to replace software developers every decade since 1969, from COBOL to AI.
318 points by drcwpl | 81 comments
A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.
375 points by conanxin | 229 comments
Plain-text copy of Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay on operating systems, graphical interfaces, and the command line, hosted on a Stanford course site.