All math? Almost all science? Almost all art?
Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
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#122Renderdoc is built and maintained by one guy. https://renderdoc.org/
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#123Just about anything created by djb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein Daemontools, a whole bunch of ciphers, tons of otero software. The man is a living legend.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
It applies to everything you mentioned. I didn't ask anyone to compare the relative greatness of the creations.
I think he's saying one is years old, the other is centuries old.
Exactly.
Maybe Minecraft will be gone in 5 years because Microsoft releases a Minecraft 2.
Then it will not have stood the test of time. while the Mona Lisa and canned food is still there.
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#125The lines blur between creation/discovery for some of these. Additionally, the historic nature makes it impossible to determine if these were all the work of a single individual, but I'll go with: Joseph Shivers - Lycra/Spandex Albert Hoffman - LSD Anton Köllisch - MDMA (was killed in WW1) John Pemberton - Coca Cola (significantly different to the modern drink) John Baird Glen - Propofol Percy Spencer - Microwave Ove…
I'd wonder what the original Coca Cola would taste like.
Tounge-numbing sensation
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#126I'm shocked that noone mentioned Kent Beck and JUnit. JUnit is one of the most widely-used libraries out there.
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#127Michelangelo's David :)
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#128Lululemon founder Chip Wilson was the inventor of Board Shorts (the shorts for surfers... he then went on to invent several other garments - then founded lululemon... His episode on how I built this is REALLY interesting.
Yeah, but did you ever see this interview in the Vancouver magazine the Tyee about how he named the company lululemon so he could hear japanese women pronounce it 'rururemon'?
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#129Literature. Pretty much all of the greatest stories ever told came from the mind of one person.
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#130The list is massive. It probably covers most open source projects from Linux (which might not be single personal now but it certainly was when it started) and git, cURL (still single person AFAIK) etc. even GNU started out as a single person project.