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We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)

web.mit.edu Essays & writing 57 submissions · 50 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-04 Resurfaced 2026-01-29

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

norvig.com Books & learning 32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

www.w3.org Books & learning 24 submissions · 21 people · 16.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-05 Resurfaced 2023-03-03

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What You Can't Say (2004)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 31 submissions · 31 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-16

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Music for Programming

musicforprogramming.net Audio, video & images 27 submissions · 26 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-11 Resurfaced 2026-04-05

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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

joshworth.com Tools, games & demos 31 submissions · 30 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-06-13

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Choose Boring Technology (2015)

mcfunley.com Essays & writing 41 submissions · 39 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2023-10-01

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

web.mit.edu Books & learning 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-25

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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office"

www.ribbonfarm.com Essays & writing 24 submissions · 24 people · 16.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2026-03-07

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#10

Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

lists.freebsd.org Essays & writing 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-03 Resurfaced 2022-07-24

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#11

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

james-iry.blogspot.com Essays & writing 42 submissions · 41 people · 17.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2012-01 Resurfaced 2023-06-25

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#12

They're Made out of Meat

www.terrybisson.com Books & learning 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-04 Resurfaced 2023-11-26 archived copy

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#13

Hexagonal Grids (2013)

www.redblobgames.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 16 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2026-02-03

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#14

John Carmack on Inlined Code

number-none.com Essays & writing 21 submissions · 14 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2024-10-06

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#15

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)

www.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 23 submissions · 22 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2021-08-19

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#16

Pointer Pointer (2012)

pointerpointer.com Tools, games & demos 18 submissions · 18 people · 13.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-11 Resurfaced 2025-10-09

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#17

ΠFS

github.com Software & code 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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#18

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

www.aosabook.org Reference 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-10-08

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#19

Project Euler is offline

projecteuler.net Reference 18 submissions · 17 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2025-11-12

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#20

Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 20 submissions · 20 people · 15.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-12 Resurfaced 2023-06-24

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#21

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

johnsalvatier.org Essays & writing 19 submissions · 17 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-02-18

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#22

Asciiflow

www.asciiflow.com Tools, games & demos 20 submissions · 20 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-01 Resurfaced 2025-08-27

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#23

Explain Shell

explainshell.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 29 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2022-05-30

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#24

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu Reference 18 submissions · 16 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2023-08-09 archived copy

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#25

The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

www.catb.org Books & learning 17 submissions · 15 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2022-04-27

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#26

Compiler Explorer

godbolt.org Tools, games & demos 32 submissions · 31 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2022-10-16

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#27

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 17.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2023-01-18

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#28

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

norvig.com Books & learning 21 submissions · 21 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2022-03-06

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#29

UTF-8 Everywhere

utf8everywhere.org Essays & writing 18 submissions · 17 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2020-04-14

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#30

Pass: The standard Unix password manager

www.passwordstore.org Software & code 22 submissions · 21 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2025-09-13

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#31

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 12 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2021-06-07

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#32

Asciinema

asciinema.org Sites & organizations 24 submissions · 24 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2025-07-25

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#33

Crafting Interpreters

craftinginterpreters.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 15 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-01-14

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#34

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

pages.cs.wisc.edu Books & learning 20 submissions · 17 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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#35

A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

pomax.github.io Books & learning 25 submissions · 19 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-28

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#36

How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

www.evanmiller.org Books & learning 18 submissions · 17 people · 15.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2024-10-25

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#37

Universal Paperclips

www.decisionproblem.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 27 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-02

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#38

How SQLite Is Tested

www.sqlite.org Reference 23 submissions · 20 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-17

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#39

Submarine Cable Map

www.submarinecablemap.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 30 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2025-09-07

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#40

WebGL Water

madebyevan.com Tools, games & demos 17 submissions · 16 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-02 Resurfaced 2025-05-10

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#41

FFmpeg 4.0 released

ffmpeg.org Software & code 11 submissions · 8 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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#42

Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu Books & learning 15 submissions · 15 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-10

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#43

Laws of UX

lawsofux.com Reference 17 submissions · 17 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-29

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#44

Hiroshima (1946)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 14 people · 10.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2025-08-02

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#45

Why numbering should start at zero (1982)

www.cs.utexas.edu Essays & writing 17 submissions · 16 people · 13.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2023-07-16

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#46

The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

thetruesize.com Tools, games & demos 21 submissions · 20 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2025-04-26

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#47

Pijul: A intuitive VCS unlike Git that's based on sound theory of patches

pijul.org Software & code 16 submissions · 15 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2026-04-07

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#48

Microsoft is Dead (2007)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2020-12-30

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#49

Google Earth for live radios

radio.garden Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2025-10-08

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#50

Open-Source Home Automation

www.home-assistant.io Software & code 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2021-09-15

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#51

Windows93 SP2

www.windows93.net Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-06 Resurfaced 2021-07-28

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#52

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

eloquentjavascript.net Books & learning 14 submissions · 14 people · 18.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-07 Resurfaced 2024-03-07

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#53

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

www.somethingsimilar.com Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2024-09-02

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#54

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

wiki.csswg.org Reference 14 submissions · 11 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2025-12-11

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#55

Crystal Programming Language

crystal-lang.org Software & code 23 submissions · 22 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2022-09-01

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#56

Linux ate my RAM

www.linuxatemyram.com Books & learning 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-09

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#57

What did Earth look like X million years ago?

dinosaurpictures.org Tools, games & demos 25 submissions · 23 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-08

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#58

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

steveblank.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 12 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-16

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#59

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

lists.busybox.net Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 13.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2026-01-04

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#60

Jewish problems

arxiv.org Research & data 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2021-08-11

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#61

Open Source Game Clones

osgameclones.com Reference 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-12-27

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#62

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

www.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 29 submissions · 27 people · 15.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2021-03-07

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#63

Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

adamdrake.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 10 people · 7.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2026-01-18

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#64

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

norvig.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-16

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#65

The Twelve-Factor App

12factor.net Reference 62 submissions · 61 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2023-10-12

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#66

Advent of Code 2021

adventofcode.com Tools, games & demos 24 submissions · 22 people · 10.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2023-11-28

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#67

Timeline of the far future

en.wikipedia.org Reference 44 submissions · 44 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-05-17

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#68

Tutorial: How to use Git in a team development environment

nvie.com Books & learning 17 submissions · 17 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-09-07

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#69

Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

www.qubes-os.org Software & code 15 submissions · 15 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-01-12

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#70

How I do my computing

stallman.org Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-10 Resurfaced 2023-07-29

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#71

Myths about /dev/urandom

www.2uo.de Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-14

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#72

Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 18 submissions · 18 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-15

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#73

Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007)

www.gnu.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-05 Resurfaced 2019-09-24

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#74

Oh Shit, Git?

ohshitgit.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-16

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#75

Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

www.shellcheck.net Tools, games & demos 25 submissions · 22 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2023-11-23

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#76

The Land of Lisp

landoflisp.com Sites & organizations 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2013-01 Resurfaced 2022-01-08

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#77

Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

www.coding2learn.org Essays & writing 19 submissions · 18 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2025-04-10

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#78

Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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#79

Cool Retro Terminal

github.com Software & code 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-11-24

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#80

Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)

cstack.github.io Books & learning 16 submissions · 15 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2023-05-03

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#81

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

www.jofreeman.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 17 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-22

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#82

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

www.crypto101.io Books & learning 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2025-07-06

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#83

0.30000000000000004

0.30000000000000004.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 15 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2022-06-20

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#84

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 10 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2024-01-03

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#85

Nginx 1.0.0 is out

nginx.org Software & code 13 submissions · 11 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-25

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#86

Lisping at JPL (2002)

www.flownet.com Essays & writing 22 submissions · 19 people · 16.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-05-22

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#87

-2000 lines of code

www.folklore.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2022-11-05

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#88

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

250bpm.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-04 Resurfaced 2022-08-12 archived copy

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#89

DevDocs

devdocs.io Reference 22 submissions · 22 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2024-01-12

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#90

Illegal prime

en.wikipedia.org Reference 16 submissions · 16 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2021-04-12

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#91

Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers

cockpit-project.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-16

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#92

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

infiniteundo.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 13 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2022-08-22

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#93

Teach Yourself Computer Science

teachyourselfcs.com Reference 15 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2021-11-26

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#94

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

shapecatcher.com Tools, games & demos 17 submissions · 16 people · 13.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2025-01-18

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#95

Beej's Guide to Network Programming

beej.us Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 17.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-11

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#96

What Color is Your Function? (2015)

journal.stuffwithstuff.com Essays & writing 25 submissions · 22 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-26

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#97

List of falsehoods programmers believe in

github.com Reference 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-03

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#98

GoboLinux

www.gobolinux.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-28

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#99

Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

pi-hole.net Software & code 17 submissions · 17 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-05 Resurfaced 2023-01-13

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#100

Raft Visualization

thesecretlivesofdata.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 29 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2024-09-27

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