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Links about web & internet that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 101
Candidates: 152
Types: 7
Median span: 6.1 yrs

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Software & code 80 Web & internet links 25 Hall · 55 Candidates Essays & writing 73 Web & internet links 29 Hall · 44 Candidates Reference 33 Web & internet links 13 Hall · 20 Candidates Books & learning 26 Web & internet links 10 Hall · 16 Candidates Tools, games & demos 22 Web & internet links 13 Hall · 9 Candidates Sites & organizations 17 Web & internet links 10 Hall · 7 Candidates Research & data 2 Web & internet links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates

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101 items

We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)

web.mit.edu Essays & writing 57 submissions · 50 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-04 Resurfaced 2026-01-29

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

www.w3.org Books & learning 24 submissions · 21 people · 16.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-05 Resurfaced 2023-03-03

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Submarine Cable Map

www.submarinecablemap.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 30 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2025-09-07

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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

wiki.csswg.org Reference 14 submissions · 11 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2025-12-11

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Nginx 1.0.0 is out

nginx.org Software & code 13 submissions · 11 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-25

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Beej's Guide to Network Programming

beej.us Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 17.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-11

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Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

pi-hole.net Software & code 17 submissions · 17 people · 7.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-05 Resurfaced 2023-01-13

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Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS

caddyserver.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2025-02-16

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How to Disagree

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2012-11 Resurfaced 2018-02-24

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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

webaim.org Essays & writing 37 submissions · 34 people · 17.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2026-01-27

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Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

syncthing.net Software & code 14 submissions · 13 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-10 Resurfaced 2024-08-18

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Gail.com FAQ

gail.com Reference 15 submissions · 14 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2023-01-09

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Shoelace: A library of web components

shoelace.style Software & code 12 submissions · 10 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2024-01-10

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HTTP Cats

http.cat Tools, games & demos 14 submissions · 12 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2026-01-30

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Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers

sandstorm.io Software & code 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-05

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What I've Learned from Hacker News

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2022-02-19

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Thoughts on Flash

www.apple.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2021-05-06

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

apenwarr.ca Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-19

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The Website Obesity Crisis

idlewords.com Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2023-01-21

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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-04-02

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The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)

www.theatlantic.com Essays & writing 17 submissions · 15 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-22

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Mosh: SSH for 2012

mosh.mit.edu Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 4.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-09 Resurfaced 2016-04-26

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Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

kill-the-newsletter.com Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 11 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2024-08-21 archived copy

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Aether – Free, privacy-sensitive public communities

getaether.net Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2018-11-03

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418 I’m a teapot

developer.mozilla.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-28

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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009)

www.moserware.com Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-07 Resurfaced 2020-10-20

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Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot

neocities.org Sites & organizations 15 submissions · 14 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-11 Resurfaced 2022-11-18

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Common Crawl

commoncrawl.org Research & data 13 submissions · 13 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-04

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A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

www.brython.info Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2020-07-06

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Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends

vivaldi.com Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2018-09-10

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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)

blog.chriszacharias.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 10 people · 5.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2025-10-16

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Yggdrasil Network

yggdrasil-network.github.io Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-11 Resurfaced 2026-04-02

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Show HN: HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments

www.hnreplies.com Sites & organizations 16 submissions · 12 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-10 Resurfaced 2022-04-10

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Kill sticky headers (2013)

alisdair.mcdiarmid.org Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 10 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-12 Resurfaced 2025-02-01

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LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

leafletjs.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2021-08-16

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Use plaintext email

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-06 Resurfaced 2025-06-28

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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

meyerweb.com Essays & writing 10 submissions · 9 people · 14.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-05 Resurfaced 2023-05-11

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CSS grid garden

cssgridgarden.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-06 Resurfaced 2024-06-03

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The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

www.windytan.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2024-10-16

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MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers

www.mathjax.org Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-13

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Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

www.caniemail.com Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-06

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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language

www.destroyallsoftware.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2024-12-16

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How to run a small social network site for your friends

runyourown.social Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-31

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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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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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CSS Zen Garden

www.csszengarden.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2021-12-24

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SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

sponsor.ajay.app Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.0 years

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

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Urbit

urbit.org Sites & organizations 10 submissions · 10 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-30

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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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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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Whatsapp Web

web.whatsapp.com Sites & organizations 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-05

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Mosh: The Mobile Shell

mosh.org Software & code 8 submissions · 7 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-28

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Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

transfer.sh Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.9 years

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

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Dead Man's Switch

www.deadmansswitch.net Sites & organizations 7 submissions · 7 people · 15.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-24

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Lit: Simple. Fast. Web Components

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

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-09 Resurfaced 2025-09-03

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How the Blog Broke the Web

stackingthebricks.com Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-15

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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes

features.jsomers.net Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2020-12-26

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JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard

jmap.io Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.3 years

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

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Semantic UI

semantic-ui.com Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.1 years

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

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Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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

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

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

apenwarr.ca Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-19

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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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Yggdrasil Network

yggdrasil-network.github.io Software & code 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-11 Resurfaced 2026-04-02

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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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HTTP Cats

http.cat Tools, games & demos 14 submissions · 12 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2026-01-30

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Candidates

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A Modern JavaScript Tutorial

javascript.info Books & learning 14 submissions · 13 people · 14.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-15

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“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”

github.com Reference 20 submissions · 19 people · 12.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-16

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Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)

www.newsweek.com Essays & writing 19 submissions · 19 people · 11.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-18

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Scunthorpe Problem

en.wikipedia.org Reference 25 submissions · 24 people · 14.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-04-13

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Swatch Internet Time

en.wikipedia.org Reference 22 submissions · 21 people · 17.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-14

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Hckr news – Hacker News sorted by time

hckrnews.com Tools, games & demos 14 submissions · 13 people · 15.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-10-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Listen to Wikipedia

listen.hatnote.com Tools, games & demos 27 submissions · 27 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-12-28

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Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

ngrok.com Sites & organizations 17 submissions · 17 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-05-06

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The Flask Mega-Tutorial

blog.miguelgrinberg.com Books & learning 21 submissions · 9 people · 12.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Killed by Google

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

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)

dontasktoask.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-21

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Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication

matrix.org Sites & organizations 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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High Performance Browser Networking

hpbn.co Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-14

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Servo v0.0.1

github.com Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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D J Bernstein – The IPv6 mess

cr.yp.to Essays & writing 8 submissions · 6 people · 17.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-08-14

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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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Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL

nplusonemag.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-05-10

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Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent

instant.io Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-09-18

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JSON API

jsonapi.org Reference 5 submissions · 4 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-08-19

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Wt – C++ Web Toolkit

www.webtoolkit.eu Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 15.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Start Your Own ISP

startyourownisp.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-25

Needs:5 submissions

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Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)

twobithistory.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-27

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Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

wigle.net Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 10 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-07

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Mail-in-a-Box

mailinabox.email Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-11-25

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What is the small web? (2020)

ar.al Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-01-02

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DNS Toys

www.dns.toys Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-07

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This JPEG is also a webpage

lcamtuf.coredump.cx Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-09-10

Needs:5 submissions

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Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser

www.waterfox.net Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-28

Needs:5 submissions

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Xanadu: we have a working deliverable

xanadu.com Sites & organizations 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-09-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Old CSS, New CSS

eev.ee Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-13

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Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework

bulma.io Software & code 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-27

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BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory

github.com Software & code 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-16

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Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenResty

leafo.net Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Dark Reader – enable Dark Mode on Wikipedia and many other websites

darkreader.org Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-11-20

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Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

utteranc.es Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-11

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Smalltalk runtime in the browser

amber-lang.net Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-03

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What No One Told You About Z-Index

philipwalton.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-03-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network

meshtastic.org Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-30

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Why Is Gopher Still Relevant?

gopher.floodgap.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-12

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How SSH got port number 22

www.ssh.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-24

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