Curated collections & archives

Curated collections & archives that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 48
Candidates: 106
Topics: 16
Median span: 6.9 yrs

Topics in Curated collections & archives

16 topics

Software engineering 42 links 14 Hall · 28 Candidates Design & creativity 15 links 4 Hall · 11 Candidates Computer science 14 links 5 Hall · 9 Candidates Web & internet 14 links 3 Hall · 11 Candidates Culture & media 12 links 4 Hall · 8 Candidates Education & learning 10 links 4 Hall · 6 Candidates Computer games 9 links 2 Hall · 7 Candidates Security & privacy 8 links 4 Hall · 4 Candidates History & humanities 6 links 1 Hall · 5 Candidates Mathematics & science 6 links 1 Hall · 5 Candidates Hardware & electronics 5 links 0 Hall · 5 Candidates Work & careers 4 links 3 Hall · 1 Candidates Economics & business 3 links 1 Hall · 2 Candidates Society & policy 3 links 0 Hall · 3 Candidates AI & data 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates Space & transportation 1 link 1 Hall · 0 Candidates

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48 items

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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Project Euler is offline

projecteuler.net Reference 18 submissions · 17 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2025-11-12

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Open Source Game Clones

osgameclones.com Reference 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-12-27

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Teach Yourself Computer Science

teachyourselfcs.com Reference 15 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2021-11-26

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List of falsehoods programmers believe in

github.com Reference 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-03

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A Single Div

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-02

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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

academictorrents.com Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2020-01-13

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Dynamicland 2024

dynamicland.org Reference 13 submissions · 12 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2024-09-04

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Linux Performance

www.brendangregg.com Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

github.com Reference 36 submissions · 12 people · 5.8 years

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

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Standard Ebooks

standardebooks.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2024-01-01

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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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Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

darkpatterns.org Reference 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2019-09-02

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Fast

patrickcollison.com Reference 16 submissions · 15 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-01

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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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A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

www.cameronsworld.net Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.6 years

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

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Hiring Without Whiteboards

github.com Reference 10 submissions · 9 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2020-07-28

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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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Free public domain audiobooks

librivox.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2025-06-01

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Learn how to design large-scale systems

github.com Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2023-10-29

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Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature

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

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

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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 Great Unbundling

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

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

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GTFOBins

gtfobins.github.io Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-10 Resurfaced 2023-07-07

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Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-10 Resurfaced 2025-01-27

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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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Paper Airplane Designs

www.foldnfly.com Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2024-01-23

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Lamest Edit Wars

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2023-05-07

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Programming cheat sheets

overapi.com Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-05 Resurfaced 2017-11-14

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A computer science study plan to become a software engineer

github.com Reference 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2020-12-16

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Amit's Game Programming Information

www-cs-students.stanford.edu Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2017-02-19

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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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Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills

github.com Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2023-08-23

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Distributed Systems Reading List

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-19

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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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Paged Out

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

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

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All software sucks

harmful.cat-v.org Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-08 Resurfaced 2018-08-30

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Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-10 Resurfaced 2020-10-26

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Why the name?

wiki.debian.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2020-04-06

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Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

www.fmwconcepts.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2022-02-18

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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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Android vendors, don’t kill my app

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-11 Resurfaced 2023-11-23

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Ideas for Computing

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 6 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2021-05-19

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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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Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2021-05-03

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Tools for Better Thinking

untools.co Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.0 years

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

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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

www.eff.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2021-06-24

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Nestflix

nestflix.fun Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-05 Resurfaced 2024-01-04

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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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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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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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Paged Out

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

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

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Project Euler is offline

projecteuler.net Reference 18 submissions · 17 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2025-11-12

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Candidates

Browse 106 candidates

Learn X in Y Minutes

learnxinyminutes.com Reference 25 submissions · 25 people · 12.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-19

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Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

oeis.org Reference 34 submissions · 32 people · 15.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-04

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Free for Developers

free-for.dev Reference 14 submissions · 13 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

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Microjs

microjs.com Reference 16 submissions · 16 people · 13.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-30

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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

507movements.com Reference 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-18

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TldrLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English

tldrlegal.com Reference 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2014-03-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today

github.com Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-16

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Kubernetes Failure Stories

k8s.af Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-25

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Software optimization resources

www.agner.org Reference 17 submissions · 17 people · 15.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-19

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A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)

beza1e1.tuxen.de Reference 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-27

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Killed by Google

killedbygoogle.com Reference 17 submissions · 16 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-01

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A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 6 people · 9.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-11-21

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International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries

www.ioccc.org Reference 18 submissions · 15 people · 11.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-05-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A List of Post-Mortems

github.com Reference 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-04

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Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago

olduse.net Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 13.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-03-02

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Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub

dotfiles.github.io Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-07

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"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)

steveblank.com Reference 10 submissions · 8 people · 11.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-18

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Code.nasa.gov

code.nasa.gov Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-03

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Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)

skins.webamp.org Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-15

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The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

github.com Reference 16 submissions · 15 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-31

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tosdr.org Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-16

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BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts

betterexplained.com Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-11-15

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List of command line tools for manipulating CSV, XML, HTML, JSON, INI, etc.

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-04-08

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Github now publishes all DMCA takedown notices they receive here.

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 8 people · 13.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-28

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Ian's Shoelace Site

www.fieggen.com Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-02-01

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Quotes

paulgraham.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-05-11

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The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games

tcrf.net Reference 8 submissions · 7 people · 13.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-24

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How Many Computers Are in Your Computer?

www.gwern.net Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-04-11

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Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

www.typewritten.org Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-12

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Cool but obscure X11 tools

cyber.dabamos.de Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-03-21

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The Graphical User Interface Gallery

toastytech.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-26

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The Programming Languages Zoo

plzoo.andrej.com Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-23

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Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

math.stackexchange.com Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 12.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-11

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Software Library: MS-DOS Games

archive.org Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-03

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List of open source applications for macOS

github.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-12

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Show HN: A curated list of remote jobs

github.com Reference 7 submissions · 6 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-09

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Testing Distributed Systems

asatarin.github.io Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-11

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Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security

foundation.mozilla.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-06

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A list of public JSON APIs for use in web development

github.com Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-02-04

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Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors

up-for-grabs.net Reference 7 submissions · 6 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-06-14

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