Wasn’t lichess developed by one person? I’m not sure how old it is but I think it “withstands the test of time” since there are few (maybe no) other places on the internet so zealously and universally beloved by users.
Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
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#92List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…
> say supposedly because ... ... because they did not write the compiler for their game.
> ... because they did not write the compiler for their game.
That's like saying a painting isn't a single person creation because the artist didn't make their own brushes from scratch. Maybe true technically, but splitting hairs to the point that it makes the conversation about something else entirely.
I, pencil is an interesting essay, but it's not what OP is asking about, I don't think.
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#93Coral Castle outside of miami, one weird man's project. https://coralcastle.com/
The Watts Towers in LA https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2021-12-24/how-the-watt...
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#94Liquid Paper[0] It may be on its way out, now. [0] https://www.thoughtco.com/liquid-paper-bette-nesmith-graham-...
Most of the time I've seen people using Wite-Out, they're using the tape version because you don't have to wait for it to dry
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#95Just 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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#96Dwarf Fortress is one person right?
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#98An intern I met a few years back built a Farnsworth fusor while he was in high school. He showed me pictures of it in operation, complete with some really cool shots of the plasma.
It occurred to me a few years later that the helium atoms he snapped together will likely survive until they are swallowed up by a black hole or maybe have a front row seat to a supernova or gamma ray burst. So likely hundreds of billions if not trillions of years.
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#99The light-bulb - Thomas Edison
No. His research for a better filament was conducted by a large team.
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#100What do you mean by test of time? Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony? Or some random tech stuff like Git if all the math is run on the shoulders of the likes of Euklid? But to add something technical: Nicolas Appert the guy who did canning before Pasteur could explain how it worked.
Forgive the tangent, but this is the first time I've seen Euclid written with a "k". In retrospect that seems like the more obvious Latinization. I wonder why Euclid is more common.
I suspect the clue is in your phrasing: Latinization. European scholars wrote in Latin, where "k" is uncommon and "kl" almost unknown, and transliterated Εὐκλείδης as "Euclidis". Later writers in French and English - but probably not in Germanic languages other than English - turned this into "Euclid".
If the Elements was discovered now, we'd probably favour a more direct transliteration of the Greek: Eukleidos.