alt Hacker NewsIt's because of their Simons Foundation support, but not only because of that. I mean, I invite anyone to name another billionaire pet project of comparable quality.
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BobaFloutist • 11/05/2025
I like what MacKenzie Scott is doing in the space of "What it takes to actually spend down billions of dollars"
Iwan-Zotow • 11/04/2025
Clay Mathematics Institute, with its 7 Millennium problems
gowld • 11/04/2025
Mathematica?
Good game and a hard question, especially if you make "comparable" more explicit. I'd add "noncommercial, open-access", and "modern" in the sense that it happened under the current norms with respect to legacy and the social contract.