History & Retro Computing

The most popular blog posts about history & retro computing on Hacker News. 33 posts.

Bringing improved PDF support to Google Chrome

Chromium Blog201078 points21 comments details

Millions of web users rely on PDF files every day to consume a wide variety of text and media content. To enable this, a number of plug-ins ...

First Clay Millennium Prize goes to Grigoriy Perelman

Clay Mathematics Institute201077 points13 comments details

Poincare official problem description

Debt: The first five thousand years

Long Now Foundation Blog201075 points14 comments details

Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors.