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1,169 Hall of Fame links and 1,994 Candidates.
We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
web.mit.edu
1164 peak points
57 submissions · 50 people · 17.9 years
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
norvig.com
586 peak points
32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
www.w3.org
387 peak points
24 submissions · 21 people · 16.4 years
What You Can't Say (2004)
www.paulgraham.com
241 peak points
31 submissions · 31 people · 14.5 years
All-time greats
Browse all-time greatsNewest class: June 2026
5 links completed the Hall rule in this class.
The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
Completed last:breakout pair
635max pts
The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Completed last:breakout pair
205max pts
Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)
Completed last:5th submission
272max pts
Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)
Completed last:3rd submitter
211max pts
Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?
Completed last:5th submission
276max pts
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