Education & learning

Links about education & learning that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 36
Candidates: 41
Types: 8
Median span: 6.9 yrs

Browse Education & learning by type

Every link below is about education & learning and belongs to the selected type.

8 types

Strongest Hall records

36 items

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

norvig.com Books & learning 32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

586max pts

The Land of Lisp

landoflisp.com Sites & organizations 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2013-01 Resurfaced 2022-01-08

477max pts

Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

www.coding2learn.org Essays & writing 19 submissions · 18 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2025-04-10

625max pts

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

1308max pts

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

matt.might.net Books & learning 16 submissions · 16 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2013-03 Resurfaced 2021-11-07

319max pts

Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game

vim-adventures.com Tools, games & demos 18 submissions · 17 people · 14.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-03 Resurfaced 2022-09-23

497max pts

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

theamericanscholar.org Essays & writing 20 submissions · 20 people · 16.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2026-05-06

238max pts

Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science

github.com Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2025-05-25

691max pts

Flexbox Froggy

flexboxfroggy.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2023-09-30

499max pts

What every computer science major should know (2011)

matt.might.net Books & learning 17 submissions · 17 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2019-07-16

540max pts

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

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-27

341max pts

English has been my pain for 15 years

antirez.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 4 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2021-12-22

433max pts

Lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)

web.williams.edu Research & data 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2023-11-13

426max pts

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]

youtube.com Audio, video & images 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2023-07-08

957max pts

There's no speed limit (2009)

sivers.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-11 Resurfaced 2016-06-20

699max pts

Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

jeremykun.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2016-02-18

213max pts

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

178max pts

Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution

pythontutor.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-02 Resurfaced 2016-02-29

325max pts

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-16

378max pts

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-05 Resurfaced 2023-10-30

770max pts

Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

medium.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2018-12-25

929max pts

How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

castel.dev Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.9 years

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

703max pts

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

374max pts

To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)

www.wired.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2024-12-27

740max pts

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

702max pts

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

937max pts

A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

functionalcs.github.io Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-13

394max pts

GitHub Classroom

classroom.github.com Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2020-06-03

559max pts

Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

danwang.co Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2023-07-15

130max pts

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

392max pts

Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning

apps.ankiweb.net Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-28

636max pts

I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

castel.dev Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2022-05-01

542max pts

Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (2014) [pdf]

www.cs.cmu.edu Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-05 Resurfaced 2020-05-13

179max pts

Thoughts on Public Speaking (2014)

speaking.io Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 3.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-06 Resurfaced 2017-06-07

371max pts

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-24

480max pts

How to parent more predictably (2018)

www.jefftk.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-13

555max pts

Recently resurfaced in education & learning

latest 20+ point return

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

theamericanscholar.org Essays & writing 20 submissions · 20 people · 16.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2026-05-06

238max pts

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

178max pts

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

702max pts

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-24

480max pts

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

norvig.com Books & learning 32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

586max pts

Candidates

Browse 41 candidates

2011 Startup School

startupschool.org Books & learning 19 submissions · 17 people · 15.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

282max pts

A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf]

www.maa.org Essays & writing 27 submissions · 22 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-13 archived copy

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

170max pts

Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017

github.com Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-01-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

261max pts

Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.

www.khanacademy.org Books & learning 10 submissions · 10 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-11-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

344max pts

The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling

www.garlikov.com Books & learning 11 submissions · 9 people · 18.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

253max pts

Books and lectures don't work

andymatuschak.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-09-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

195max pts

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

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

483max pts

Internet in a Box

internet-in-a-box.org Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-27

Needs:5 submissions

897max pts

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (2019)

www.apmreports.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-02

Needs:5 submissions

258max pts

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger

www.npr.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-04

Needs:5 submissions

611max pts

How to Study Mathematics (2017)

www.math.uh.edu Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-12-01

Needs:5 submissions

661max pts

What Problems to Solve

genius.cat-v.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 10.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-25

Needs:5 submissions

574max pts

A Survival Guide to a PhD

karpathy.github.io Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-03-10

Needs:5 submissions

319max pts

Ian's Shoelace Site

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

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-02-01

Needs:5 submissions

502max pts

95th percentile isn't that hard to reach

danluu.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-07

Needs:5 submissions

444max pts

Numworks: open-source, Python-compatible handheld graphing calculator

www.numworks.com Sites & organizations 9 submissions · 8 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

158max pts

Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy

ankisrs.net Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-12-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

398max pts

Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

prog21.dadgum.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-03-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

277max pts

Teaching C (2016)

blog.regehr.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-05

Needs:5 submissions

263max pts

CS Unplugged – Computer Science without a computer

csunplugged.org Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-04-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

262max pts

Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

www.gradeinflation.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

70max pts

Teaching Linear Algebra

bentilly.blogspot.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 4 people · 16.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2012-10-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

208max pts

Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

github.com Reference 4 submissions · 3 people · 7.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-07

Needs:5 submissions

819max pts

Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)

betterexplained.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 5 people · 9.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-11-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

270max pts

Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s

usborne.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

188max pts

Language learning with Netflix

languagelearningwithnetflix.com Software & code 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

324max pts

The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill

azeria-labs.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 4 people · 2.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-07-15

Needs:3 active years

1331max pts

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world

www.theverge.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-09-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

235max pts

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

www.wisdomandwonder.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-07-25

Needs:5 submissions

284max pts

Mentat Wiki: exploring ways to become a better thinker

www.ludism.org Reference 5 submissions · 4 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-09-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

219max pts

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days

www.nature.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-01-06

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

159max pts

How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

www.npr.org Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-02

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

233max pts

Free private Github repos for students and edu people

github.com Sites & organizations 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-05-23

Needs:5 submissions

220max pts

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall

www.efavdb.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-02

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

281max pts

An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia

crypto.junod.info Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-04-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

211max pts

Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)

www.theatlantic.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-07

Needs:5 submissions

268max pts

Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)

www.vox.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-03-31

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

308max pts

Retiring Python as a Teaching Language

prog21.dadgum.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-01-21

Needs:5 submissions

280max pts

How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

jvns.ca Essays & writing 6 submissions · 4 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

170max pts

The Unix Pipe Card Game

punkx.org Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

270max pts