A couple threads from way back:

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769303 - May 2014 (17 comments)

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656197 - Nov 2013 (21 comments)