Class of 2023 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2023

16 links

Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

www.nand2tetris.org Books & learning 12 submissions · 12 people · 13.6 years

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Lena

qntm.org Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-02-13

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An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)

betterexplained.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.9 years

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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

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Social Cooling (2017)

www.socialcooling.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.3 years

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How to run a small social network site for your friends

runyourown.social Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-31

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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

arxiv.org Research & data 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-14

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End of Life of Technologies and Devices

endoflife.date Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.0 years

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November 2023

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Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

users.ece.utexas.edu Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2023-11-01

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Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM

gleam.run Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 6.8 years

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Things You're Allowed to Do

milan.cvitkovic.net Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.8 years

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

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Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

flix.dev Software & code 7 submissions · 6 people · 4.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2025-07-10

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Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.9 years

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Android vendors, don’t kill my app

dontkillmyapp.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

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Qanat – Water Tunnels in Iran

en.wikipedia.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.2 years

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Iknowwhatyoudownload.com – Torrent Activity Checker

iknowwhatyoudownload.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

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October 2023

16 links

Accounting for Computer Scientists

martin.kleppmann.com Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.8 years

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Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)

eater.net Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.7 years

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The C4 model for visualising software architecture

c4model.com Reference 14 submissions · 13 people · 7.6 years

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MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers

www.mathjax.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.6 years

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Email and Git = <3

git-send-email.io Books & learning 12 submissions · 12 people · 6.2 years

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Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale

mkorostoff.github.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

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Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances

gokrazy.org Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-12-19

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Elastic Tab Stops (2017)

nickgravgaard.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 11 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-18

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September 2023

21 links

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

xlinux.nist.gov Reference 17 submissions · 17 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-28

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I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup

slatestarcodex.com Essays & writing 16 submissions · 16 people · 8.9 years

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

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WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

wtfhappenedin1971.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2025-01-15

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Johnny.Decimal

johnnydecimal.com Sites & organizations 15 submissions · 12 people · 7.4 years

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The Tao of Programming (1987)

www.mit.edu Books & learning 17 submissions · 16 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-27

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$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a failed deployment (2014)

dougseven.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.4 years

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

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Georgism

en.wikipedia.org Reference 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.9 years

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

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Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.6 years

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August 2023

21 links

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++

blog.regehr.org Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 14.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2025-03-13

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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

yosefk.com Essays & writing 16 submissions · 16 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2024-12-28

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Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels

noclip.website Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-19

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Overthewire.org

overthewire.org Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-27

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V Programming Language

vlang.io Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.5 years

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WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

github.com Books & learning 14 submissions · 13 people · 7.4 years

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

apenwarr.ca Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-19

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micro – A Modern Alternative to nano

micro-editor.github.io Software & code 14 submissions · 11 people · 6.6 years

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July 2023

14 links

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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Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 6.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-08-04

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

harpers.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2025-09-17

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“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success” – Dennis Ritchie

www.bell-labs.com Research & data 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.6 years

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Java for Everything (2014)

www.teamten.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2021-04-25

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FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

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

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UP: A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

github.com Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2021-03-31

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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

erikbern.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2023-07-14

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June 2023

15 links

Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers

sandstorm.io Software & code 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.0 years

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

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How much your computer can do in a second

computers-are-fast.github.io Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.2 years

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The Deep Sea

neal.fun Tools, games & demos 22 submissions · 22 people · 5.0 years

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Don’t Talk to Police

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 14 submissions · 14 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-17

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Adblock via /etc/hosts

github.com Software & code 13 submissions · 13 people · 9.0 years

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

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Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)

software.rajivprab.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 5 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2025-10-31

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Whatsapp Web

web.whatsapp.com Sites & organizations 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.0 years

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Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

kakoune.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.5 years

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May 2023

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

idlewords.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-06-01

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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

www.sandimetz.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 9.1 years

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Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.3 years

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Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

nyxt.atlas.engineer Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 4.4 years

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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

meyerweb.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 14.7 years

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Click

clickclickclick.click Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-18

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Lamest Edit Wars

en.wikipedia.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.8 years

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Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design

brutalist-web.design Reference 7 submissions · 6 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2023-05-02

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April 2023

6 links

System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-04 Resurfaced 2020-12-17

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Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub

codeberg.org Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 12 people · 6.3 years

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Brandolini's Law

en.wikipedia.org Reference 17 submissions · 16 people · 5.9 years

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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)

www.raphkoster.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

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A Mind Is Born (2017)

linusakesson.net Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-04 Resurfaced 2021-03-19

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Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot

probablydance.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-14

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March 2023

8 links

Parse, Don’t Validate

lexi-lambda.github.io Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2026-02-10

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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

jsomers.net Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.4 years

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You can't tell people anything

habitatchronicles.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 16.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2023-03-23

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Meditations on Moloch (2014)

slatestarcodex.com Essays & writing 18 submissions · 17 people · 11.8 years

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Cargo Cult Science (1974)

calteches.library.caltech.edu Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 7.3 years

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Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)

beej.us Books & learning 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.2 years

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PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter

github.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2021-01-29

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Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014)

oliveremberton.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.1 years

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

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February 2023

9 links

The missing semester of CS education

missing.csail.mit.edu Books & learning 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-23

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AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

adnauseam.io Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2025-04-05

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Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

janet-lang.org Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2025-07-27

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Web Design Museum

www.webdesignmuseum.org Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-08-29

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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

www.otherhand.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-06-03

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A Python Interpreter Written in Rust

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-08-02

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The “Talk”

www.smbc-comics.com Audio, video & images 15 submissions · 9 people · 9.3 years

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Paper Models of Vintage Computers

rockybergen.com Reference 9 submissions · 8 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2023-02-24

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January 2023

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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem

www.sqlite.org Research & data 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2024-10-26

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Autopilot: an open source driving agent

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2024-09-20

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Why Use Make

bost.ocks.org Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-11

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Calculus Made Easy (1910)

calculusmadeeasy.org Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2021-07-28

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ReactOS

reactos.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-13

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How the Blog Broke the Web

stackingthebricks.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-15

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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)

github.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

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Dumb Ideas in Computer Security (2005)

www.ranum.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.9 years

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

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