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Hall of Fame: 9
Candidates: 12
Topics: 7
Median span: 6.9 yrs

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Software engineering 11 links 5 Hall · 6 Candidates Computer games 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates History & humanities 2 links 2 Hall · 0 Candidates Security & privacy 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates Web & internet 2 links 0 Hall · 2 Candidates AI & data 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Medicine & health 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi

stackoverflow.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 12 people · 15.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-11 Resurfaced 2021-05-07

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Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate

bugzilla.mozilla.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-18

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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

unix.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2024-10-04

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Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

www.reddit.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-09 Resurfaced 2022-09-19

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“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

people.csail.mit.edu Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-01

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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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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

english.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-17

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Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

github.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2023-08-09

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How is GNU `yes` so fast?

www.reddit.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

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

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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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Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate

bugzilla.mozilla.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-18

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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

unix.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2024-10-04

1058max pts

Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

english.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-17

1220max pts

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

github.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2023-08-09

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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011)

stackoverflow.com Essays & writing 22 submissions · 22 people · 16.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-09-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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How do I give our security auditor the information he wants? (2011)

serverfault.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

codegolf.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 23 submissions · 21 people · 7.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-12-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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By 2029 no computer or “machine intelligence” will have passed the Turing Test

longbets.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 17.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-03-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

bugs.chromium.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

superuser.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-02-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

discussions.apple.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-04

Needs:5 submissions

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Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons

bugzilla.mozilla.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Does memory leak? (1995)

groups.google.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-02-22

Needs:5 submissions

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List of freely available programming books

stackoverflow.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-11-13 archived copy

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

askubuntu.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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TCP in 30 instructions (1993)

www.pdl.cmu.edu Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-09-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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