Books & learning

Books, tutorials, courses, and lectures that became durable shared references.

Hall of Fame: 177
Candidates: 293
Median span: 7.4 yrs
First seen: 2007

Subtypes in Books & learning

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Tutorials & guides 344 links 126 Hall · 218 Candidates Books & long-form works 95 links 38 Hall · 57 Candidates Courses & lectures 31 links 13 Hall · 18 Candidates

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177 items

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

norvig.com 32 submissions · 32 people · 18.6 years

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

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

www.w3.org 24 submissions · 21 people · 16.4 years

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

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-25

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They're Made out of Meat

www.terrybisson.com 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-04 Resurfaced 2023-11-26 archived copy

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Hexagonal Grids (2013)

www.redblobgames.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2026-02-03

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The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

www.catb.org 17 submissions · 15 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2022-04-27

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How to Write a Spelling Corrector

norvig.com 21 submissions · 21 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-09 Resurfaced 2022-03-06

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Crafting Interpreters

craftinginterpreters.com 16 submissions · 15 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-01-14

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

pages.cs.wisc.edu 20 submissions · 17 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

pomax.github.io 25 submissions · 19 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-28

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How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

www.evanmiller.org 18 submissions · 17 people · 15.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2024-10-25

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Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online

www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu 15 submissions · 15 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-10

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Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

eloquentjavascript.net 14 submissions · 14 people · 18.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-07 Resurfaced 2024-03-07

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Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)

www.somethingsimilar.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2024-09-02

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Linux ate my RAM

www.linuxatemyram.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-09

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Tutorial: How to use Git in a team development environment

nvie.com 17 submissions · 17 people · 12.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-09-07

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Oh Shit, Git?

ohshitgit.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-16

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Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)

cstack.github.io 16 submissions · 15 people · 8.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2023-05-03

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

www.crypto101.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2025-07-06

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0.30000000000000004

0.30000000000000004.com 16 submissions · 15 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2022-06-20

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Beej's Guide to Network Programming

beej.us 11 submissions · 11 people · 17.2 years

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

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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

matt.might.net 16 submissions · 16 people · 14.6 years

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

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Game Programming Patterns (2014)

gameprogrammingpatterns.com 14 submissions · 14 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-05 Resurfaced 2024-02-21

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Advanced programming languages (2009)

matt.might.net 12 submissions · 10 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-06 Resurfaced 2020-05-05

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Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

magcius.github.io 10 submissions · 9 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-01-09

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Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)

www.lighterra.com 14 submissions · 11 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2021-05-02

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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)

www.georgehart.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-05 Resurfaced 2022-03-06

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2025-12-08

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Practical Typography

practicaltypography.com 24 submissions · 24 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-11 Resurfaced 2021-04-04

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Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

sherylcanter.com 15 submissions · 7 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2022-06-02

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Doomsday planning for less crazy folk

lcamtuf.coredump.cx 17 submissions · 16 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2020-11-11

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The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures

www.bzarg.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2024-04-03

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H.264 is Magic

sidbala.com 9 submissions · 8 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2024-06-14

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The XY Problem (2014)

xyproblem.info 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2025-12-04

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Essential C (2003) [pdf]

cslibrary.stanford.edu 10 submissions · 10 people · 13.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2022-03-05 archived copy

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Learn C and build your own Lisp

www.buildyourownlisp.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-08-05

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

github.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.4 years

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

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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

www.righto.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2021-02-15

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Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

immersivemath.com 8 submissions · 6 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2024-05-11

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Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks

karpathy.github.io 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2019-01-06

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Get started making music

learningmusic.ableton.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2023-05-14

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Introduction to the A* Algorithm (2014)

www.redblobgames.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2025-06-17

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Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures

adit.io 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-09 Resurfaced 2021-10-19

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An Introduction to Reactive Programming

gist.github.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-02 Resurfaced 2020-10-25

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The missing semester of CS education

missing.csail.mit.edu 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-23

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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

dev.stephendiehl.com 11 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-09 Resurfaced 2020-04-11 archived copy

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Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)

www.michaelnielsen.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2022-11-08

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WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

github.com 14 submissions · 13 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2023-08-27

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Accounting for Computer Scientists

martin.kleppmann.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2026-01-02

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The Tao of Programming (1987)

www.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-27

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The Website Obesity Crisis

idlewords.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 9.3 years

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

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The cryptopals crypto challenges

cryptopals.com 16 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-02 Resurfaced 2023-06-20

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What every computer science major should know (2011)

matt.might.net 17 submissions · 17 people · 14.5 years

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

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Coroutines in C (Simon Tatham, 2000)

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk 18 submissions · 16 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2024-02-25

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Little book about OS development (2015) [pdf]

littleosbook.github.io 10 submissions · 10 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2025-03-21

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The Art of Command Line (2015)

github.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2022-11-24

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Build Your Own Text Editor

viewsourcecode.org 12 submissions · 11 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-01 Resurfaced 2022-11-13

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Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)

www.bottomupcs.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2023-09-10

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The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less

www.muppetlabs.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 17.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-14

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Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

www.nand2tetris.org 12 submissions · 12 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-22

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What every coder should know about gamma

blog.johnnovak.net 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-11 Resurfaced 2026-06-13

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Practical Common Lisp (2005)

www.gigamonkeys.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-29

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A Primer on Bézier Curves (2013)

pomax.github.io 25 submissions · 19 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-04 Resurfaced 2026-04-28

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

lcamtuf.coredump.cx 5 submissions · 4 people · 13.5 years

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

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The missing semester of CS education

missing.csail.mit.edu 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2026-02-23

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Candidates

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The TTY demystified (2008)

www.linusakesson.net 32 submissions · 32 people · 16.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-26