Hacker News with Generative AI: Anniversaries

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.

Anniversaries, Social Media, Technology, Web

8 points by irs 3 days ago | 4 comments

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!

Software, Open Source, Anniversaries, PDF, Libraries

55 points by alemos 3 days ago | 27 comments

Delphi Is 30 (marcocantu.com)
Today is 30 years since Delphi was launched, in February 1995.

Programming, Software, History, Anniversaries

142 points by andsoitis 7 days ago | 88 comments

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.

Google Maps, History, Technology, Anniversaries

22 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 1 comments

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:

Anniversaries, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Startups

11 points by lawgimenez 43 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Anniversaries, Retro Computing, Atari, Gaming History

31 points by rbanffy 43 days ago | 14 comments

Tell HN: Happy Birthday, Celsius - Canada marks 50 years of metric (todayinbc.com)
Happy Birthday, Celsius!

Canada, Metric System, History, Anniversaries

12 points by cf100clunk 52 days ago | 8 comments

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.

Anniversaries, Programming, Compilers

4 points by mgaudet 64 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Anniversaries, Community, Software, Web Development, Open Source

22 points by ksec 66 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Software, Open Source, Anniversaries, Milestones

12 points by ahamez 86 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Google, Research, History, Anniversaries

419 points by thepuppet33r 95 days ago | 190 comments

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)

Video Games, Anniversaries, Updates

574 points by Philpax 98 days ago | 266 comments

Go Turns 15 (go.dev)
Happy birthday, Go!

Programming Languages, Anniversaries, Go

88 points by zdw 102 days ago | 26 comments

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.

Mathematics, Anniversaries, Conferences

87 points by jjgreen 102 days ago | 8 comments

Aaron Swartz Day 2024 (aaronswartzday.org)
Aaron would have been 38 years old on Friday, November 8th, 2024.

Anniversaries, Activism, Technology, Internet Freedom

14 points by mastazi 104 days ago | 0 comments

Thunderbird Turns 20 Years Old (thunderbird.net)
On December 7, 2004, Thunderbird 1.0 was released.

Software, Email Clients, Anniversaries

49 points by popcalc 105 days ago | 25 comments

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.

Video Games, Anniversaries, History

10 points by blacktechnology 109 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Software, Anniversaries, Code Editors

548 points by thunderbong 112 days ago | 247 comments

Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate (play2048.co)

Games, Anniversaries, Web Development

669 points by terabytest 120 days ago | 212 comments

MQTT turns 25 (andypiper.co.uk)
It’s October 2024 and I’m sitting here in my creative maker studio, wearing a bright t-shirt that excitedly bellows “MQTT 25”! To my left is a top-end Bambu Lab X1C 3D printer, that uses MQTT internally for communication. On my wall are a variety of connected gadgets that display data or that light up in response to MQTT notifications. Node-RED is sitting quietly on a Raspberry Pi in the corner, processing MQTT messages as they come and go.

Communication Protocols, Technology, Software, Anniversaries

289 points by andypiper 122 days ago | 74 comments

Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary (ubuntu.com)
The warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team are proud to present the very first release of Ubuntu!

Operating Systems, Linux, Ubuntu, Anniversaries

248 points by aquova 124 days ago | 107 comments

Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today (ycombinator.com)
Join us and hold a KDE birthday party in your city. Fill in the wiki, meet up with your friends and celebrate 28 years of collaboration, free software and altruism!

Software, Open Source, Community, Events, Anniversaries

77 points by Bro6666 130 days ago | 30 comments

Glad I did it in Go (thorstenball.com)
The eight year anniversary of Writing An Interpreter In Go is coming up. This year again, just like every time I look back to November 2016, I find myself thinking: man, I’m glad I used Go for these books.

Programming Languages, Go, Software Development, Books, Anniversaries

35 points by tosh 142 days ago | 2 comments

At 35, 'Patlabor' now looks awfully prescient (japantimes.co.jp)
It’s typhoon season, and for fans of a certain anime film, reports of powerful cyclones heading for Tokyo have an extra layer of meaning. That film is “Patlabor: The Movie,” and it’s now back in theaters across Japan in celebration of its 35th anniversary.

Anime, Japan, Movies, Anniversaries

36 points by mikhael 153 days ago | 7 comments

ReBoot TV series 30th anniversary – remastered episode 1 'The Tearing' [video] (youtube.com)

Television, Anniversaries, Remastering, Video

7 points by ChrisArchitect 164 days ago | 5 comments

Nvidia GeForce 256 is 25 years old (videocardz.com)

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Technology, Anniversaries, History

30 points by stare_spb 173 days ago | 11 comments

Happy 15th Birthday, Oh My Zsh (reddit.com)

Software, Operating Systems, Community, Anniversaries

5 points by doppp 176 days ago | 1 comments

Happy 15-th Anniversary of SQLite on Fossil (fossil-scm.org)