Hacker News Reader

Here's the list of people and things featured:

- 1984, original Macintosh

- 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer

- 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement

- 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research

- 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography

- 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop

- 1990, Craig Hickman, creator of Kid Pix

- 1991, John Maeda, artist and pioneer of motion graphics

- 1992, David Carson, graphic designer and art director of Ray Gun magazine

- 1993, Robyn and Rand Miller, creators of Myst

- 1994, Hans Zimmer, composer

- 1995, Dave McKean, comic book artist and filmmaker

- 1996, Tinker Hatfield, Nike shoe designer

- 1997, Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, creators of Wired magazine

- 1998, Alex Townsend, creator of the Computer Bus that helped bring computer access to Manx schools

- 1999, Moby, electronica artist

- 2000, Nick Knight, prolific fashion photographer

- 2001, Takagi Masakatsu, musician and filmmaker

- 2002, John Stanmeyer, photographer for TIME and National Geographic magazines

- 2003, Philip Jackson, founder of Sportstec that makes sports analysis software

- 2004, Noemi Trainor, principal of Mexico's Varmond School which is spearheading a digital-first educational program

- 2005, Jürgen Mayer H., architect

- 2006, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, co-creators of the Radiolab podcast

- 2007, Nicholas Felton, prolific graphic designer known for his "Feltron Annual Reports[1]" and supposed progenitor of Facebook's timeline

- 2008, Es Devlin, prolific costume designer

- 2009, Dr. Pardis Sabeti, pioneer in genetics research and bioinformatics

- 2010, Dr. Maki Sugimoto, surgeon who uses 3D printing to model patients organs to help prepare for surgery

- 2011, Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, co-founders of Codecademy

- 2012, Daito Manabe, artist who specializes in electronic and holographic installations

- 2013, Éric Fournier, Sakchin Bessette, and Dominic Audet, co-founders of Moment Factory

- 2014, the new Mac Pro