TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Why HN readers recommended it

Regarded as the definitive, if heartbreaking, account of Terry Davis and TempleOS.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Fredrik Knudsen

Topic

terry davis and templeos

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Here is a great video on TempleOS and Terry Davis himself. It talks about the development of the OS, it's history and his life in a chronological order. [VIDEO]

• (Context, the late creator of the original TempleOS, Terry Davis, was very schizophrenic.) This video is the definitive rundown on his life and illness: [VIDEO] Terry Davis, in life and online, was completely wild. What's interesting though is that when you play in TempleOS for …

• There's a long video about Terry and TempleOS by YouTube creator Fredrik Knudsen, [VIDEO] It's pretty heart-breaking to watch, though. Had he not drawn the short straw, he could've gone down as a legend. He built his own home-made CNC milling machine in the 90s. …