Hacker News with Generative AI: Anniversaries

Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50 (arstechnica.com)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered to be among the best comedy films of all time, and it's certainly one of the most quotable. This absurdist masterpiece sending up Arthurian legend turns 50 (!) this year.

Movies, Comedy, Anniversaries

10 points by chha 6 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Git, Software Development, History, Anniversaries

10 points by amichail 25 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Build Systems, Bazel, Software, Anniversaries

89 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 88 comments

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.

Movies, Film, Retrospectives, Anniversaries

33 points by walterbell 31 days ago | 8 comments

Microsoft 50th Anniversary (microsoft.com)
Microsoft empowers you with AI

Microsoft, Anniversaries, AI, Technology

5 points by LopRabbit 31 days ago | 0 comments

FuguIta: OpenBSD Live CD – Celebrates Their 20th Anniversary (fuguita.org)
FuguIta 7.6, based on OpenBSD 7.6, was released on October 21, 2024.

OpenBSD, Live CD, Operating Systems, Anniversaries

4 points by warmandsoft 31 days ago | 1 comments

Happy 18th Birthday CUDA (thechipletter.substack.com)

CUDA, Software, Anniversaries

26 points by chmaynard 44 days ago | 5 comments

20 Years of YC / HN (vickiboykis.com)
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Y Combinator, Startups, Anniversaries, Venture Capital

175 points by mooreds 49 days ago | 42 comments

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".

Video Games, Anniversaries, RPGs, Square Enix

4 points by ksec 55 days ago | 1 comments

Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Anniversaries, Venture Capital, Startups

1421 points by btilly 56 days ago | 276 comments

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.

Operating Systems, Linux, Software Development, Anniversaries

8 points by 2bluesc 62 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Technology, News, Apple, Anniversaries

7 points by throw0101c 70 days ago | 0 comments

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 76 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

57 points by alemos 77 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 80 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 85 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 116 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 116 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 125 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 137 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 139 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 160 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 168 days ago | 190 comments

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

Video Games, Anniversaries, Updates

574 points by Philpax 171 days ago | 266 comments

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

Programming Languages, Anniversaries, Go

88 points by zdw 175 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 175 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 177 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 178 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 182 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 185 days ago | 247 comments