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Some past HN discussions:

Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (John Backus, 1977) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159792

A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Claude Shannon, 1948) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079826

Vannevar Bush symposium: Closing Panel (1995) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457056

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Seymour Papert, 1980) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18361665

No Silver Bullet (Fred Brooks, 1986) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22084137

Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (Alan Kay, 1984) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352020

The Tyranny of the Clock (Ivan Sutherland, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995966

Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language (William W. Wadge and Edward A. Ashcroft, 1985) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233054

Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution (Lynn Conway, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18140297

A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (Larry Tesler, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670877

Robust Design Through Diversity (Gerald Sussman, 1999) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9984899

I really like to see what https://dynamicland.org/ is doing at the moment. A team with bright minds, but so little news.

The team is back in research mode working on the next version of Realtalk

Do you know when their next open house is going to be? I went over there once, but it seems to be closed to the public. I subscribed to their newsletter, but no news.

I'm curious, how is this work funded? I see that they accept donations but I can't find any details on who the donors are. I wonder if their work is mostly self-funded.

If you want to download all of the pdfs:

  wget --no-parent --accept pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/

I believe you need a `--recursive --level 1` in there too, so overall:

    wget --no-parent --accept pdf --recursive --level 1 http://worrydream.com/refs/

Context please?

worrydream.com is the website of Bret Victor, a popular researcher and proponent of computation as a new kind of dynamic media rather than simply a substrate for software. He's made a number of influential essays and talks, and is now working on a project called Dynamicland. His essays often reference great works of computer science, HCI, electrical engineering, and other related fields. This directory listing is full of such works.

I posted a link to https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love the other day. In addition the repo, they run meetups where they discuss the papers.

Looking forward to the next talk of your perspectives and ideas Bret!

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