Hacker News with Generative AI: Anniversaries

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days – and never imagined it would last 20 years (zdnet.com)
Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.
The next generation of Bazel builds (blogsystem5.substack.com)
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like.
True Romance (1993) – A 30th Anniversary Retrospective (cinemascholars.com)
In the Summer of 1993, most of the cinema-viewing world was fixated on dinosaurs, of the Jurassic kind. However, just a year earlier, another powerful force began to exert its dominance in the film industry.
Microsoft 50th Anniversary (microsoft.com)
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FuguIta: OpenBSD Live CD – Celebrates Their 20th Anniversary (fuguita.org)
FuguIta 7.6, based on OpenBSD 7.6, was released on October 21, 2024.
Happy 18th Birthday CUDA (thechipletter.substack.com)
20 Years of YC / HN (vickiboykis.com)
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Square Enix celebrating Chrono Trigger anniversary with new projects (eurogamer.net)
Square Enix is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its iconic RPG Chrono Trigger with multiple projects that "go beyond the world of the game".
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
14 Years of Systemd (lwn.net)
It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first release or first commit. Usually, these are observed at five and ten‑year increments; the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release, or 25 years since from the first public announcement, etc.
MacRumors Turns 25 Years Old (macrumors.com)
It's a milestone day for MacRumors, as today marks our 25th birthday. MacRumors was coincidentally founded on Steve Jobs' birthday of February 24, 2000, with articles starting just a few days later.
Hacker News is old enough to vote - Happy 18th Birthday HN (wikipedia.org)
Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.
iText PDF Library turns 25 (itextpdf.com)
On 14th February 2000 the first public version of the iText PDF library was released to the open-source community. A quarter of a century later, Apryse is proudly celebrating with the release of iText Suite 9.1 on iText’s 25th anniversary, which is also Valentine’s Day! This release brings significantly expanded SVG and CSS support, huge performance increases, GraalVM for pdfHTML, and a whole lot of love!
Delphi Is 30 (marcocantu.com)
Today is 30 years since Delphi was launched, in February 1995.
Google Maps Origin Story – 20-Year Anniversary (theguardian.com)
Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world’s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google Maps, has buried himself in a big black hole of anonymity.
5 Years of Framework (frame.work)
Framework turned five years old this week! It feels both like an eternity ago and no time at all since we kicked off our mission to remake Consumer Electronics. In that period of time, we’ve:
Atari ST 40th Anniversary (goto10retro.com)
The Atari ST was announced at the 1985 Winter Consumer Electronics show in the first week of January, making this month the 40th anniversary of its introduction to the world.
Tell HN: Happy Birthday, Celsius - Canada marks 50 years of metric (todayinbc.com)
Happy Birthday, Celsius!
5 Years of CompilerJobs (mgaudet.ca)
Turns out I missed the 5 year anniversary of my CompilerJobs page by a little more than a week.
Celebrating a Decade of Discourse (discourse.org)
Happy Anniversary to us! On August 26, 2014, we released Discourse v1.0 and introduced hosting services. We have been full throttle ever since. Now that we’ve hit this milestone we’re taking a look back to see how far we’ve come.
Shields is 10 years old (2023) (github.com/badges)
Reaching this milestone matters: A project does not survive for a decade if it is not providing some value.
20 years of Google Scholar (google)
To celebrate 20 years of Google Scholar, we’re sharing some fun facts about the go-to resource for researchers worldwide.
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)
Go Turns 15 (go.dev)
Happy birthday, Go!
Homage to Alexander Grothendieck (igrothendieck.org)
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the death of the great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, occurred on 13 November 2014, the Grothendieck Institute organises a commemorative conference in his honour.
Aaron Swartz Day 2024 (aaronswartzday.org)
Aaron would have been 38 years old on Friday, November 8th, 2024.
Thunderbird Turns 20 Years Old (thunderbird.net)
On December 7, 2004, Thunderbird 1.0 was released.
Tetris turns 40 this year – let's play it to honor the legacy (tetris.ing)
Experience the iconic puzzle game Tetris, which has captivated millions since 1984 with its simple yet engaging gameplay.
Notepad++ is 21 years old (learnhub.top)
Alright, folks, gather around because it’s story time about one of the most underrated yet indispensable tools in the digital world—Notepad++. This month marks the 21st anniversary of this amazing software, and that’s right, Notepad++ is finally legal to drink (if it were a person, of course). Can you believe it? 21 years of keeping developers, writers, and pretty much anyone who’s ever needed to write a chunk of text happy and efficient.
Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate (play2048.co)