The Luminaries

Pioneer of object-oriented programming and Smalltalk at Xerox PARC. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Hana uses: OOP paradigms, UI concepts

Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX. The godfather of algorithm analysis and computer science as a discipline.

Hana uses: Algorithms, typesetting foundations

Inventor of the relational model — normalization, referential integrity, and the principle that data should have no redundancy. The theoretical foundation of every SQL database.

Hana uses: Relational model, SQL, database normalization

Co-creator of Unix, UTF-8, and the Go language. Unix is the foundation that Linux, macOS, and the entire server ecosystem grew from.

Hana uses: Unix foundations, UTF-8

Inventor of the World Wide Web — HTTP, HTML, and URLs. The foundation every web application is built upon.

Hana uses: HTTP, HTML, the web itself

Creator of Linux and Git — the operating system and version control system that underpin all modern software.

Hana uses: Linux servers, Git

Pioneer of relational databases. His research led to PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open-source database.

Hana uses: PostgreSQL

The most prolific contributor to PostgreSQL for over two decades. His work on the query planner, type system, and countless core features is why Postgres is what it is today.

Hana uses: PostgreSQL core

Creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift. LLVM is the compiler infrastructure that powers Rust, the JavaScript engines, and countless tools that build the software we rely on.

Hana uses: LLVM compiler infrastructure

Creator of JavaScript — the language that powers every interactive web experience.

Hana uses: JavaScript everywhere

Lead architect of TypeScript, bringing type safety and developer confidence to the JavaScript ecosystem.

Hana uses: TypeScript across the entire codebase

Creator of Node.js and Deno — server-side JavaScript runtimes that made full-stack JavaScript possible.

Hana uses: Node.js runtime

Creator of Svelte and SvelteKit — the compiler-first framework that eliminates virtual DOM overhead for truly reactive UIs.

Hana uses: Svelte 5, SvelteKit 2

Creator of Vite and Vue.js — Vite revolutionized front-end tooling with instant dev servers and lightning-fast builds.

Hana uses: Vite build tooling

Creator of Tailwind CSS — the utility-first framework that changed how developers think about styling.

Hana uses: Tailwind CSS for all styling

Co-founder of Cloudflare — the global network that secures and accelerates internet traffic for millions of websites.

Hana uses: Cloudflare CDN and edge network

Co-founder of Stripe — the payments infrastructure powering internet commerce for millions of businesses.

Hana uses: Stripe payments

Pioneer of deep learning and backpropagation for neural networks. 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries enabling machine learning.

Hana uses: Deep learning foundations

Co-developed foundational deep learning techniques including neural language models and attention mechanisms. 2018 Turing Award recipient.

Hana uses: Neural language model theory

Lead author of "Attention Is All You Need" — the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind modern AI.

Hana uses: AI features powered by Transformers

Co-invented AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI, and led the GPT research that produced the large language model revolution.

Hana uses: LLM research foundations