Class of 2026 — HN Hall of Fame

August 2026

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Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

ntfy.sh Software & code 13 submissions · 11 people · 4.8 years

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July 2026

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Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music

arxiv.org Research & data 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-28

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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

jdan.github.io Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-23

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Collapse OS

collapseos.org Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2025-03-26

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Htop Explained

peteris.rocks Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-04

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Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)

skins.webamp.org Reference 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-02

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Mondragon Corporation

en.wikipedia.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-28

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How to Study Mathematics (2017)

www.math.uh.edu Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2024-12-01

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Organic Maps

organicmaps.app Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-07 Resurfaced 2026-07-05

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June 2026

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The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

www.destroyallsoftware.com Audio, video & images 27 submissions · 23 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-14

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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-15

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OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

www.openra.net Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 4 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-27

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Mechanical Watch

ciechanow.ski Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-16

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The state of building user interfaces in Rust

areweguiyet.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)

www.atlasobscura.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2022-05-05

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Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017)

smalldata.tech Books & learning 14 submissions · 3 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2020-04-11

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Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?

ziglang.org Reference 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2024-01-22

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May 2026

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What Color is Your Function? (2015)

journal.stuffwithstuff.com Essays & writing 25 submissions · 22 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-26

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The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History

www.destroyallsoftware.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-05 Resurfaced 2020-12-25

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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

overreacted.io Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-05 Resurfaced 2026-05-26

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April 2026

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Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.

prog21.dadgum.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 17.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-15

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How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours

www.michaelnielsen.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2023-06-15

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Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)

lcamtuf.coredump.cx Books & learning 5 submissions · 4 people · 13.5 years

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

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Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-28

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Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

friendi.ca Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-05

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C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)

digitalmars.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2023-07-02

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The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’

www.bbc.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-04 Resurfaced 2024-02-02

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March 2026

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Log File Viewer for the Terminal

lnav.org Software & code 20 submissions · 16 people · 12.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-24

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Little Free Library

littlefreelibrary.org Sites & organizations 17 submissions · 6 people · 12.2 years

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

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Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

helix-editor.com Software & code 7 submissions · 6 people · 4.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-06

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The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

uxdesign.cc Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-18

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Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

github.com Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-23

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“It turns out”

jsomers.net Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 16.0 years

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

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C Compiler from Scratch

github.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-24

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Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

forums.tigsource.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-16

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February 2026

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Start all of your commands with a comma

rhodesmill.org Essays & writing 6 submissions · 3 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-04

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Thought-Terminating Cliché

en.wikipedia.org Reference 10 submissions · 9 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-04

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Animated Knots

www.animatedknots.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.7 years

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

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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

anders.unix.se Audio, video & images 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2019-06-10

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Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

www.sheldonbrown.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.4 years

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

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Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no

practicaltypography.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-13

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Ghidra by NSA

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-14

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C isn't a programming language anymore

faultlore.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.4 years

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

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January 2026

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Open Infrastructure Map

openinframap.org Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 12 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-08

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Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

indieweb.org Reference 7 submissions · 6 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-03-23

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European Alternatives

european-alternatives.eu Reference 9 submissions · 5 people · 4.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-23

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Cameras and Lenses

ciechanow.ski Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 5.1 years

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

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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)

karl-voit.at Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

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

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Shipmap.org

www.shipmap.org Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-07

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PysimpleGUI

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

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

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A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3

github.com Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-15

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