Reference

Documentation, standards, encyclopedic entries, policies, and curated collections.

Hall of Fame: 143
Candidates: 241
Median span: 7.7 yrs
First seen: 2007

Subtypes in Reference

5 subtypes

Curated collections & archives 154 links 48 Hall · 106 Candidates Encyclopedia entries 116 links 42 Hall · 74 Candidates Documentation & references 86 links 38 Hall · 48 Candidates Standards & specifications 19 links 11 Hall · 8 Candidates Policies & guidelines 9 links 4 Hall · 5 Candidates

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Every link below is both Reference and the selected topic.

17 topics

Software engineering 106 Reference links 44 Hall · 62 Candidates Mathematics & science 38 Reference links 11 Hall · 27 Candidates History & humanities 36 Reference links 10 Hall · 26 Candidates Web & internet 33 Reference links 13 Hall · 20 Candidates Computer science 26 Reference links 11 Hall · 15 Candidates Design & creativity 23 Reference links 7 Hall · 16 Candidates Culture & media 18 Reference links 8 Hall · 10 Candidates Security & privacy 17 Reference links 8 Hall · 9 Candidates Economics & business 14 Reference links 6 Hall · 8 Candidates Society & policy 13 Reference links 6 Hall · 7 Candidates Space & transportation 12 Reference links 6 Hall · 6 Candidates Hardware & electronics 11 Reference links 0 Hall · 11 Candidates Computer games 10 Reference links 2 Hall · 8 Candidates Education & learning 10 Reference links 4 Hall · 6 Candidates Work & careers 9 Reference links 4 Hall · 5 Candidates AI & data 4 Reference links 2 Hall · 2 Candidates Medicine & health 4 Reference links 1 Hall · 3 Candidates

Strongest Hall records

143 items

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

www.aosabook.org 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2023-10-08

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Project Euler is offline

projecteuler.net 18 submissions · 17 people · 17.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2025-11-12

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu 18 submissions · 16 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2023-08-09 archived copy

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How SQLite Is Tested

www.sqlite.org 23 submissions · 20 people · 16.6 years

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

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Laws of UX

lawsofux.com 17 submissions · 17 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-29

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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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

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

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Open Source Game Clones

osgameclones.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-12-27

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The Twelve-Factor App

12factor.net 62 submissions · 61 people · 14.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2023-10-12

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Timeline of the far future

en.wikipedia.org 44 submissions · 44 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-05-17

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DevDocs

devdocs.io 22 submissions · 22 people · 10.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2024-01-12

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Illegal prime

en.wikipedia.org 16 submissions · 16 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2021-04-12

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Teach Yourself Computer Science

teachyourselfcs.com 15 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2021-11-26

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List of falsehoods programmers believe in

github.com 15 submissions · 14 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-03

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A Single Div

a.singlediv.com 16 submissions · 16 people · 9.7 years

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

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Jevons paradox

en.wikipedia.org 35 submissions · 31 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-29

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The Secretary Problem

en.wikipedia.org 24 submissions · 21 people · 15.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2024-04-12

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Gail.com FAQ

gail.com 15 submissions · 14 people · 10.7 years

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

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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

xlinux.nist.gov 17 submissions · 17 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-28

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Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available

academictorrents.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-08 Resurfaced 2020-01-13

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The Philosophy of Computer Science (2017)

plato.stanford.edu 12 submissions · 12 people · 15.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2023-02-20

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Programmer Competency Matrix (2016)

sijinjoseph.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-04 Resurfaced 2017-03-26

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SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login

www.grc.com 20 submissions · 20 people · 12.5 years

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

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Dynamicland 2024

dynamicland.org 13 submissions · 12 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2024-09-04

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JSON5 – JSON for Humans

json5.org 12 submissions · 11 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2024-12-08

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Boltzmann Brain

en.wikipedia.org 17 submissions · 17 people · 15.6 years

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

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Linux Performance

www.brendangregg.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-01 Resurfaced 2023-10-14

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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

github.com 36 submissions · 12 people · 5.8 years

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

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Simpson's paradox

en.wikipedia.org 28 submissions · 28 people · 16.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-11

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Monty Hall Problem

en.wikipedia.org 15 submissions · 15 people · 13.7 years

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

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Standard Ebooks

standardebooks.org 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2024-01-01

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Overthewire.org

overthewire.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.1 years

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

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EditorConfig

editorconfig.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-03 Resurfaced 2023-04-22

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Bouba/kiki effect

en.wikipedia.org 21 submissions · 21 people · 16.6 years

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

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Atlantropa

en.wikipedia.org 14 submissions · 12 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-07 Resurfaced 2020-12-28

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Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

en.wikipedia.org 19 submissions · 18 people · 15.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-17

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Low-Background Steel

en.wikipedia.org 28 submissions · 27 people · 11.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-07 Resurfaced 2021-10-24

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Open Source License Helper Tool

choosealicense.com 20 submissions · 20 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2018-06-05

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One-electron universe

en.wikipedia.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 13.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2015-02-06

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Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

darkpatterns.org 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2019-09-02

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Fast

patrickcollison.com 16 submissions · 15 people · 6.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-01

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Non-English-based programming languages

en.wikipedia.org 16 submissions · 16 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2019-06-30

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Cold Showers

github.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 7.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2025-11-03

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A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

www.cameronsworld.net 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.6 years

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

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Hiring Without Whiteboards

github.com 10 submissions · 9 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-02 Resurfaced 2020-07-28

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Web Design Museum

www.webdesignmuseum.org 13 submissions · 13 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-08-29

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Bash Pitfalls

mywiki.wooledge.org 11 submissions · 11 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2022-02-15

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Free public domain audiobooks

librivox.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2025-06-01

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Georgism

en.wikipedia.org 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-19

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418 I’m a teapot

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

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

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Inventors killed by their own inventions

en.wikipedia.org 16 submissions · 16 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-06 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

sqlite.org 9 submissions · 9 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2022-04-30

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Learn how to design large-scale systems

github.com 13 submissions · 13 people · 8.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2023-10-29

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The Raising of Chicago

en.wikipedia.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2025-01-06

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Latency numbers every programmer should know

gist.github.com 9 submissions · 9 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-10-03

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Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature

sso.tax 13 submissions · 13 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-19

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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

github.com 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2025-10-04

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Trunk-Based Development

trunkbaseddevelopment.com 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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The Great Unbundling

www.ben-evans.com 21 submissions · 20 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-11 Resurfaced 2024-11-22

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Paris syndrome

en.wikipedia.org 14 submissions · 14 people · 10.6 years

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

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Room 641A

en.wikipedia.org 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-05 Resurfaced 2024-09-11

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The state of building user interfaces in Rust

areweguiyet.com 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-06 Resurfaced 2026-06-10

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Laws of UX

lawsofux.com 17 submissions · 17 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2026-04-29

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Galactic Algorithm

en.wikipedia.org 9 submissions · 8 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-04-13

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Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

indieweb.org 7 submissions · 6 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-03-23

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Trunk-Based Development

trunkbaseddevelopment.com 11 submissions · 10 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2026-02-21

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Candidates

Browse 241 candidates

Goiânia Accident

en.wikipedia.org 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-02-01