Class of 2018 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2018

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How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

swtch.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2024-05-27

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Essential C (2003) [pdf]

cslibrary.stanford.edu Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2022-03-05 archived copy

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24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

people.xiph.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2023-02-07

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Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014)

www.redblobgames.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2025-06-17

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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

medium.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2018-12-25

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November 2018

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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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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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Practical Typography

practicaltypography.com Books & learning 24 submissions · 24 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2021-04-04

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NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution

nixos.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2024-01-14

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Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)

cryto.net Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2018-11-01

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OCaml for the Masses (2011)

queue.acm.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2018-11-26

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Gogs – Go Git Service

gogs.io Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2018-11-10

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Amazon Web Services in Plain English

www.expeditedssl.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2018-11-17

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October 2018

4 links

Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

www.lighterra.com Books & learning 14 submissions · 11 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2021-05-02

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The Fuck – Correct your previous console command

github.com Software & code 15 submissions · 14 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2022-03-18

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The Raising of Chicago

en.wikipedia.org Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2025-01-06

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The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds

grantland.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 7 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2021-02-21

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September 2018

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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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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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Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2024-04-09

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Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

vivaldi.com Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2018-09-10

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Engineering management lessons (2014)

www.defmacro.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.1 years

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

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Subject: Airbnb (2011)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2018-09-17

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On Generative Algorithms

inconvergent.net Books & learning 9 submissions · 8 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2021-12-13

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August 2018

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Analysis of bank PIN numbers

www.datagenetics.com Essays & writing 21 submissions · 21 people · 13.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2024-05-14

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How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”

www.vox.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2023-10-12

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BSD vs. Linux (2005)

www.over-yonder.net Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2018-11-30

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All software sucks

harmful.cat-v.org Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2018-08-30

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July 2018

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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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Latency numbers every programmer should know

gist.github.com Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-10-03

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Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

composingprograms.com Books & learning 7 submissions · 6 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-11-08

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June 2018

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What is code

www.bloomberg.com Essays & writing 20 submissions · 19 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2026-01-01 archived copy

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Open Source License Helper Tool

choosealicense.com Reference 20 submissions · 20 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2018-06-05

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Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

arxiv.org Research & data 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2020-10-21

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Resolutions for programmers

matt.might.net Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2015-12-30

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JVM Internals (2013)

blog.jamesdbloom.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2018-06-09

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May 2018

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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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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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The Egg

www.galactanet.com Essays & writing 35 submissions · 25 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2018-05-24

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One-electron universe

en.wikipedia.org Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 13.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2015-02-06

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Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know

www.catonmat.net Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2018-05-10

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April 2018

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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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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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Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term

www.structuredprocrastination.com Essays & writing 21 submissions · 20 people · 19.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2022-02-10

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Giving up reading news will make us happier

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2023-07-05

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Page Weight Matters

blog.chriszacharias.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 10 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2022-07-29

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Stuff in Space

stuffin.space Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-05

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JavaScript Isn't Scheme

journal.stuffwithstuff.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 6 people · 12.6 years

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

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Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit

javadude.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-22

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March 2018

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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

webaim.org Essays & writing 37 submissions · 34 people · 17.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2026-01-27

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I Hate the News (2006)

www.aaronsw.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 14 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2023-07-04

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Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

stallman.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2018-03-26

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C++ Core Guidelines

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.4 years

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

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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)

bookofhook.blogspot.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2018-03-06

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DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

dec64.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2019-06-22

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February 2018

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An Introduction to Reactive Programming

gist.github.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 16 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2020-10-25

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Advantages of Monorepos (2015)

danluu.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 9 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2022-04-07

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The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 15.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2019-11-02

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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)

camdavidsonpilon.github.io Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2018-02-28

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Set up an email server in two hours

sealedabstract.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2016-03-14

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January 2018

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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (2017)

ds9a.nl Essays & writing 21 submissions · 19 people · 13.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-01 Resurfaced 2018-01-25

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Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer

regexper.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-01 Resurfaced 2018-01-30

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