Class of 2019 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2019

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Who Goes Nazi? (1941)

harpers.org Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2026-03-13

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Lisp as an Alternative to Java

norvig.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2021-08-02

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You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

youtube.com Audio, video & images 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2023-07-08

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Kill sticky headers (2013)

alisdair.mcdiarmid.org Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 10 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2025-02-01

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In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 6 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2019-12-28

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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

ubiquity.acm.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2022-10-28

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Hexing the technical interview (2017)

aphyr.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2021-10-29

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November 2019

13 links

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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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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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015)

journal.stuffwithstuff.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 7 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2025-10-29

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How Not to Die (2007)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 18.8 years

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

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Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf]

www.cs.kent.ac.uk Research & data 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2024-05-22

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Urbit

urbit.org Sites & organizations 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-30

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A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec and more

github.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-21

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Free Online Courses from Top Universities

www.openculture.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-05

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October 2019

6 links

Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc

fishshell.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2026-01-18

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Panopticlick

panopticlick.eff.org Tools, games & demos 19 submissions · 19 people · 9.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2019-10-25

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Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor

crontab.guru Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2021-08-30

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Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

thejh.net Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2015-11-12

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FTP Must Die

mywiki.wooledge.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2016-03-09

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The decline of Stack Overflow (2015)

hackernoon.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-10 Resurfaced 2019-10-21

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September 2019

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Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

magcius.github.io Books & learning 10 submissions · 9 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-01-09

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Regex Crossword

regexcrossword.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 27 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2022-12-31

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Get started making music

learningmusic.ableton.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-05-14

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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

www.bbc.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 6 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2021-12-20

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The days are long but the decades are short (2015)

blog.samaltman.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-04-19

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The Lisp Curse

www.winestockwebdesign.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2022-03-25

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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

www.nngroup.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-07-06

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Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

sivers.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2019-09-26

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August 2019

7 links

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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Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)

www.michaelnielsen.org Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2022-11-08

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Why do we need modules at all? (2011)

erlang.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-09-25

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RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting

regexr.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2022-01-27

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HTML5 Genetic Cars

rednuht.org Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2024-04-27

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Yoda conditions

en.wikipedia.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2019-08-15

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How to get your first ten customers (2013)

danshipper.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2019-08-06

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July 2019

8 links

Imba – A new programming language for the web

imba.io Software & code 16 submissions · 15 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2023-09-23

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JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

bellard.org Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2026-03-09

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Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)

improvingsoftware.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2019-08-02

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Atlantropa

en.wikipedia.org Reference 14 submissions · 12 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2020-12-28

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What every computer science major should know (2011)

matt.might.net Books & learning 17 submissions · 17 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2019-07-16

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The Future of Programming

worrydream.com Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-31

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The browser “Brave” loads major news sites 2x – 8x faster

brave.com Sites & organizations 12 submissions · 12 people · 4.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2018-01-12

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Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)

www.aaronsw.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2015-03-06

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June 2019

8 links

The XY Problem (2014)

xyproblem.info Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-04

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Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

github.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-07-30

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Non-English-based programming languages

en.wikipedia.org Reference 16 submissions · 16 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2019-06-30

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Inventors killed by their own inventions

en.wikipedia.org Reference 16 submissions · 16 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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What's new in Xcode 7

developer.apple.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2021-06-07

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A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

www.brython.info Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2020-07-06

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The Mathematical Hacker

www.evanmiller.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 5 people · 10.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2022-12-23

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The Z3 Theorem Prover released under MIT license

github.com Software & code 10 submissions · 6 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-10

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May 2019

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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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The Zig Programming Language

ziglang.org Software & code 13 submissions · 12 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-05 Resurfaced 2022-05-12

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April 2019

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Return of the Mac (2005)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-04 Resurfaced 2021-07-04

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The Lobster Programming Language

strlen.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-04 Resurfaced 2026-03-03

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Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

dmitry.gr Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-04 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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March 2019

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EditorConfig

editorconfig.org Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2023-04-22

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PathFinding.js

qiao.github.io Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 11 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2019-03-02

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The brain is not a computer

aeon.co Essays & writing 16 submissions · 16 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2024-06-13

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February 2019

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What I've Learned from Hacker News

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2022-02-19

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The cryptopals crypto challenges

cryptopals.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-06-20

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

karpathy.github.io Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-08-28

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 2.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2019-02-21

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Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem

www.lbatalha.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 4 people · 6.2 years

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

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January 2019

8 links

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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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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Coconut: Pythonic functional programming

coconut-lang.org Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2021-11-04

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The MIT License, Line by Line

writing.kemitchell.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 6 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2021-01-31

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The internals of PostgreSQL

www.interdb.jp Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2025-03-03

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Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2018-10-12

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Consciousness as a State of Matter

arxiv.org Research & data 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2019-01-30

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Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

medium.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 2.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2019-01-17

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