Class of 2025 — HN Hall of Fame

December 2025

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How SQLite Is Tested

www.sqlite.org Reference 23 submissions · 20 people · 16.6 years

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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

userinyerface.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.8 years

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Paged Out

pagedout.institute Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.3 years

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Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

frinkiac.com Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.8 years

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Python Data Science Handbook

jakevdp.github.io Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.3 years

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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

web.archive.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

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Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

anders.unix.se Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.0 years

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Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

bruno-simon.com Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.1 years

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November 2025

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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2007)

britneyspears.ac Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.1 years

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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

sqlite.org Research & data 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.2 years

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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

bradconte.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.7 years

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Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.1 years

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The Average Font

iotic.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.0 years

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Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

beets.io Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.6 years

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Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

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Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated

blog.pragmaticengineer.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.2 years

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October 2025

11 links

M5 MacBook Pro

www.apple.com Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 7 people · 13.3 years

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TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

www.propublica.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.0 years

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Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

elementary.io Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.7 years

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The fastest math typesetting library for the web

katex.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

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Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

valetudo.cloud Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.9 years

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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on

ourworldindata.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 6.4 years

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Learn TLA+ (2018)

learntla.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.2 years

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EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution

easyos.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

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September 2025

10 links

OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

openwrt.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.9 years

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The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

doc.cat-v.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 16.4 years

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Lit: Simple. Fast. Web Components

lit.dev Software & code 10 submissions · 9 people · 4.4 years

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Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML

picocss.com Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 4.6 years

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Speed Test

speed.cloudflare.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

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Normalization of Deviance (2015)

danluu.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.8 years

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GNU LibreJS

www.gnu.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.5 years

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How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial

github.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.4 years

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August 2025

9 links

Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-21

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Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature

sso.tax Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 6.8 years

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The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)

yosefk.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 16.2 years

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Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)

www.lysator.liu.se Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 14.8 years

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The Open-Office Trap (2014)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.7 years

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Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

usebottles.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.3 years

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Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

bits.ashleyblewer.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.6 years

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

harpers.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 5.2 years

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July 2025

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Curl Wttr.in

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 7 people · 9.4 years

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I should have loved biology

jsomers.net Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.7 years

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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

music.ishkur.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.1 years

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Learn Rust by writing a small OS

os.phil-opp.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.0 years

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DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

daisyui.com Software & code 8 submissions · 7 people · 4.0 years

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Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

www.quantamagazine.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.0 years

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The jank programming language

jank-lang.org Reference 8 submissions · 6 people · 2.9 years

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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page

endtimes.dev Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 2.9 years

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June 2025

11 links

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app

delta.chat Sites & organizations 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.0 years

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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

grugbrain.dev Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 3.0 years

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Use plaintext email

useplaintext.email Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.9 years

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Unfit for work

apps.npr.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.2 years

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Learn Makefiles

makefiletutorial.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 7 people · 10.5 years

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Algorithms for Modern Hardware

en.algorithmica.org Books & learning 10 submissions · 9 people · 4.2 years

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Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet

gist.github.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

eukaryotewritesblog.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.2 years

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May 2025

10 links

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

ncase.me Tools, games & demos 25 submissions · 24 people · 6.4 years

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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

youglish.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.9 years

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How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

training.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.2 years

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Beware of Fast-Math

simonbyrne.github.io Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.5 years

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Animated Factorisation Diagrams

www.datapointed.net Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.6 years

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Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.9 years

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The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

www.chosenplaintext.ca Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

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The Awful German Language (1880)

faculty.georgetown.edu Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.0 years

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April 2025

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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

www.jsoftware.com Research & data 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.8 years

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The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less

www.muppetlabs.com Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 17.1 years

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Open guide to equity compensation

github.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 6 people · 9.4 years

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That's a Lot of YAML

noyaml.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.5 years

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Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 7 people · 3.8 years

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SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

serenityos.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.8 years

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Solidjs – JavaScript UI Library

www.solidjs.com Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 3.8 years

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Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.1 years

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March 2025

10 links

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

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Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

veloren.net Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

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How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code

github.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.0 years

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Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)

www.exurbe.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

play.date Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

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MS Paint IDE

ms-paint-i.de Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

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An opinionated approach to GNU Make

tech.davis-hansson.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.2 years

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Statistical Formulas For Programmers

www.evanmiller.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.8 years

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February 2025

10 links

C Is Not a Low-Level Language

queue.acm.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

jellyfin.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.1 years

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Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

blog.danslimmon.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.5 years

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Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

github.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.2 years

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Suckless.org: software that sucks less

suckless.org Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.6 years

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Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu

waydro.id Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

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TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language

toml.io Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-21

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Foundations of Computer Science

infolab.stanford.edu Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2022-01-27

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January 2025

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

www.jofreeman.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 17 people · 16.3 years

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Jevons paradox

en.wikipedia.org Reference 35 submissions · 31 people · 16.3 years

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TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems

tmsu.org Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.1 years

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Files Are Fraught with Peril

danluu.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.5 years

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Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

purelymail.com Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.0 years

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World Airports Voronoi (2014)

www.jasondavies.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.8 years

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Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)

amasci.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 13.2 years

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Why Racket? Why Lisp?

beautifulracket.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

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