Class of 2024 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2024

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Boltzmann Brain

en.wikipedia.org Reference 17 submissions · 17 people · 15.6 years

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It’s Not Wrong that “ ”.length == 7

hsivonen.fi Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

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A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

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

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Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring

diataxis.fr Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 5.2 years

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The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014)

www.politico.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

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AdNauseam: Fight Back Against Advertising Networks and Privacy Abuse

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.0 years

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What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

twobithistory.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.3 years

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IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services

www.includeos.org Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 9.2 years

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November 2024

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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 6.4 years

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The Great Unbundling

www.ben-evans.com Reference 21 submissions · 20 people · 6.3 years

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Yggdrasil Network

yggdrasil-network.github.io Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

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ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text

ronaldduncan.wordpress.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.6 years

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Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

mtlynch.io Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.7 years

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Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

www.nongnu.org Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.4 years

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Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output

github.com Software & code 13 submissions · 9 people · 5.1 years

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Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

grep.app Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.1 years

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October 2024

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The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)

www.theatlantic.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 15 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-22

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Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies

hackertyper.net Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 13.5 years

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418 I’m a teapot

developer.mozilla.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.7 years

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-27

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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

www.mersenne.org Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.5 years

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Restic – Backups Done Right

restic.net Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.1 years

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Distributed Systems Reading List

dancres.github.io Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.5 years

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Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

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September 2024

10 links

Visual and interactive way to learn Git

learngitbranching.js.org Tools, games & demos 14 submissions · 13 people · 8.1 years

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Plain Text Accounting

plaintextaccounting.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-09 Resurfaced 2024-09-15

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RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

blog.trailofbits.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-09 Resurfaced 2022-04-01

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What's Functional Programming All About?

www.lihaoyi.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 7 people · 7.6 years

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How real are real numbers? (2004)

arxiv.org Research & data 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.5 years

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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

surma.dev Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.2 years

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Nova by Panic

nova.app Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.0 years

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Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

www.bookstackapp.com Software & code 5 submissions · 4 people · 8.7 years

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

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August 2024

13 links

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

www.sqlite.org Reference 9 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

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Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player

mpv.io Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.8 years

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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

sponsor.ajay.app Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.0 years

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Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.0 years

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

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Open Source Farming Robot

farm.bot Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-08 Resurfaced 2024-08-03

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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C

blog.reverberate.org Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.3 years

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So you want to build an embedded Linux system?

jaycarlson.net Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.8 years

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Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

aerc-mail.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

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July 2024

13 links

Big Ball of Mud (1999)

www.laputan.org Research & data 21 submissions · 20 people · 18.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-10

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu Books & learning 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

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WebGL Fluid Simulation

paveldogreat.github.io Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.6 years

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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

media.defense.gov Research & data 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-25

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JSON with Sqlite

www.sqlite.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2023-08-10

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Google humans.txt

www.google.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.4 years

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Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

github.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.9 years

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ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 5.9 years

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June 2024

15 links

Bouba/kiki effect

en.wikipedia.org Reference 21 submissions · 21 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-16

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An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)

betterexplained.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2022-03-31

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Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]

www.ams.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 13.9 years

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CSS grid garden

cssgridgarden.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.2 years

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

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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

sfwriter.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 5 people · 11.7 years

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Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-29

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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

intuitiveexplanations.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-08

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You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)

mywiki.wooledge.org Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.9 years

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May 2024

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A Single Div

a.singlediv.com Reference 16 submissions · 16 people · 9.7 years

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100k Stars

stars.chromeexperiments.com Tools, games & demos 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-10

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Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

shademap.app Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 13 people · 4.9 years

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Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)

danluu.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.8 years

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Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

www.caniemail.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

www.dampfkraft.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

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A Slower Speed of Light

gamelab.mit.edu Tools, games & demos 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.5 years

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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

remarkable.com Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-09-04

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April 2024

12 links

Exploring different microcontrollers less than $1

jaycarlson.net Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-30

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Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS. No jailbreak required

altstore.io Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.5 years

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Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

www.dangermouse.net Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.8 years

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MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console

github.com Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.4 years

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A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function

neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.6 years

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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)

en.wikipedia.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

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WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-06

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Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?

kryogenix.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.5 years

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March 2024

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Simpson's paradox

en.wikipedia.org Reference 28 submissions · 28 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-11

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Monodraw

monodraw.helftone.com Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-27

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No Hello (2013)

www.nohello.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.8 years

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So You Want to Abolish Time Zones (2015)

qntm.org Essays & writing 13 submissions · 11 people · 7.3 years

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Dead Man's Switch

www.deadmansswitch.net Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 15.5 years

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Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

www.theverge.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-26

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Apache Guacamole

guacamole.apache.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

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The Man in Seat 61

www.seat61.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-08

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February 2024

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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

www.joelonsoftware.com Essays & writing 31 submissions · 31 people · 9.2 years

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Coroutines in C (Simon Tatham, 2000)

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk Books & learning 18 submissions · 16 people · 14.5 years

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The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)

brucefwebster.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.8 years

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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

jeffhuang.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)

blog.chriszacharias.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 10 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2025-10-16

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu Research & data 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2026-06-12

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CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs

clig.dev Reference 12 submissions · 12 people · 5.1 years

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

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Osquery: An sqlite3 virtual table exposing operating system data to SQL

osquery.io Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-25

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January 2024

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Every Noise at Once

everynoise.com Tools, games & demos 21 submissions · 21 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-23

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Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society

ncase.me Tools, games & demos 34 submissions · 23 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-07

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Cold Showers

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2025-11-03

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Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image

github.com Software & code 15 submissions · 15 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-08

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Trunk-Based Development

trunkbaseddevelopment.com Reference 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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The Odin Programming Language

odin-lang.org Software & code 11 submissions · 10 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-03

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The Power of Prolog

www.metalevel.at Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2022-06-06

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Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

flipperzero.one Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.1 years

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