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Books & learning about Computer science

Every link here is both Books & learning and about computer science.

Hall of Fame: 31
Candidates: 57
Median span: 8.0 yrs
First seen: 2007

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31 items

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

jeffe.cs.illinois.edu 10 submissions · 10 people · 7.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2023-11-13

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The Power of Prolog

www.metalevel.at 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2022-06-06

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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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Learn Rust by writing a small OS

os.phil-opp.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-30

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Visual Information Theory (2015)

colah.github.io 9 submissions · 8 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2019-07-24

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Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)

github.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-11 Resurfaced 2021-01-15

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Algorithms for Modern Hardware

en.algorithmica.org 10 submissions · 9 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-06 Resurfaced 2024-03-14

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How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code

github.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-15

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A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec and more

github.com 9 submissions · 5 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-21

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Foundations of Computer Science

infolab.stanford.edu 5 submissions · 5 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2022-01-27

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Unraveling the JPEG

parametric.press 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2022-03-08

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Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)

mzucker.github.io 7 submissions · 6 people · 6.3 years

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

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“Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It?” v2 Is Out

mirrors.edge.kernel.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.1 years

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

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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering

surma.dev 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-09 Resurfaced 2023-05-21

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The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

www.chosenplaintext.ca 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

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

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Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know

www.catonmat.net 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.9 years

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

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Learn TLA+ (2018)

learntla.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2022-09-28

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How Shazam works

coding-geek.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2020-07-11

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Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional compiler from first principles

dev.stephendiehl.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2017-03-03

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Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)

raytracing.github.io 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.3 years

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

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JVM Internals (2013)

blog.jamesdbloom.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2018-06-09

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Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

getkerf.wordpress.com 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2019-09-13

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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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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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Learn Rust by writing a small OS

os.phil-opp.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-30

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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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The radix 2^51 trick (2017)

www.chosenplaintext.ca 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

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

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Candidates

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Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)

compilers.iecc.com 12 submissions · 12 people · 18.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-26

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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

norvig.com 15 submissions · 14 people · 11.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-02-23

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

raft.github.io 15 submissions · 13 people · 9.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-13

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Sudoku Solving

norvig.com 15 submissions · 14 people · 17.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-04

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Donut math: how donut.c works

www.a1k0n.net 12 submissions · 12 people · 11.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-17

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Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)

hypirion.com 15 submissions · 12 people · 12.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-04-10

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Baby's First Garbage Collector

journal.stuffwithstuff.com 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-10

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/dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them

www.linusakesson.net 17 submissions · 10 people · 14.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-13

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A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

www.cs.princeton.edu 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-25

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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours

en.wikibooks.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 14.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-14

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SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)

pvk.ca 10 submissions · 6 people · 9.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-20

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Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

blog.burntsushi.net 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-08-20

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Implement a programming language from scratch

matt.might.net 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-11

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Open Data Structures

opendatastructures.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 11.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-12-08

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Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

www.cleveralgorithms.com 10 submissions · 8 people · 8.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-11-19

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Bloom Filters by Example

llimllib.github.io 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-29

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The Book of Shaders

thebookofshaders.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 6.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-26

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Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)

www.lurklurk.org 7 submissions · 6 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-09-01

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Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012)

h14s.p5r.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-08-16

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Levenshtein Automata

blog.notdot.net 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-05

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A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016)

aosabook.org 7 submissions · 7 people · 10.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-04-13

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WebGL2 Fundamentals

webgl2fundamentals.org 8 submissions · 7 people · 7.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-02-26

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Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code

angg.twu.net 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-29

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Algorithms

www.khanacademy.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-02-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (2010)

szeliski.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 14.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-27

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3D Game Shaders for Beginners

github.com 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-04-25

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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)

interactivepython.org 4 submissions · 3 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-12-21

Needs:5 submissions

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Introduction to A* (1997)

theory.stanford.edu 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-08-16

Needs:5 submissions

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Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011)

dbp-consulting.com 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-04

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Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works

0xax.gitbooks.io 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-14

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LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than assembly

idea.popcount.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-01-01

Needs:5 submissions

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Category Theory for Programmers (2014)

bartoszmilewski.com 8 submissions · 8 people · 4.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-04-03

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Distributed systems for fun and profit

book.mixu.net 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-27

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Software Foundations

softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-04

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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)

blog.leahhanson.us 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis

discrete.gr 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-06-13

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Let's Write a Malloc

danluu.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-26

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Write Your Own Virtual Machine

justinmeiners.github.io 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Probabilistic Filters By Example

bdupras.github.io 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-28

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C as an intermediate language (2012)

yosefk.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 13.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-01-20

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