Class of 2017 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2017

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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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Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

sherylcanter.com Books & learning 15 submissions · 7 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2022-06-02

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

www.righto.com Books & learning 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2021-02-15

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Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

jeremykun.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2016-02-18

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Startups in 13 Sentences

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2016-08-15

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October 2017

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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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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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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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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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Suicide Linux

qntm.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 16.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2026-02-16

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Data Structure Visualizations

www.cs.usfca.edu Tools, games & demos 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2021-07-06

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A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python

iamtrask.github.io Books & learning 7 submissions · 5 people · 9.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2017-10-18

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September 2017

4 links

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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North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)

aschmann.net Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 11 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2026-04-16

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Make a Lisp

github.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2021-04-24

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Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)

jroweboy.github.io Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-08

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August 2017

3 links

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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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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Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go

andrewkelley.me Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2017-09-15

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July 2017

5 links

Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

bost.ocks.org Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2022-07-01

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Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks

karpathy.github.io Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2019-01-06

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Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 5 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2018-09-21

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Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

www.snopes.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2014-05-16

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Evolution of a Python programmer

gist.github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2012-03-08 archived copy

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June 2017

5 links

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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SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login

www.grc.com Reference 20 submissions · 20 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-06 Resurfaced 2017-06-01

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iPad Pro

www.apple.com Sites & organizations 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-06 Resurfaced 2017-06-05

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Webdesigners: please make text readable

contrastrebellion.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-06 Resurfaced 2023-05-07

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Thoughts on Public Speaking (2014)

speaking.io Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 3.4 years

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

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May 2017

7 links

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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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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MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua

moonscript.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2022-05-29

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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

worrydream.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 11 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2021-09-11

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-20

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“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

people.csail.mit.edu Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.4 years

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

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So you want to write your own language?

www.drdobbs.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 4 people · 3.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-19

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April 2017

6 links

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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Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?

www.viemu.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2021-12-07 archived copy

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Cello: Higher level programming in C

libcello.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2024-09-26

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Semantic UI

semantic-ui.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.1 years

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

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How to Read Mathematics

web.stonehill.edu Books & learning 5 submissions · 4 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2017-04-30

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Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 6 submissions · 4 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2017-04-24

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March 2017

5 links

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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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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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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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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Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles

dev.stephendiehl.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2017-03-03

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February 2017

6 links

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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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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Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

www.infoq.com Audio, video & images 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2020-07-21

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Amit's Game Programming Information

www-cs-students.stanford.edu Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2017-02-19

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Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin

filecoin.io Sites & organizations 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2017-02-24

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The STEM Crisis is a Myth

spectrum.ieee.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2017-02-03

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January 2017

7 links

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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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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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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Linux Performance

www.brendangregg.com Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2020-10-07

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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

learnyouahaskell.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2018-08-21

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Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

www.tarsnap.com Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2017-01-28

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