Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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What does "legacy code" mean to you?
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-effectively-with/0131177052/
Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2EZqQ-p1XkybYp21llKCfLsME
Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/
https://www.hetzner.com/sb/
What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905163826/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_SJzNJnXU
How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
https://blog.algomaster.io/p/15-leetcode-patterns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906193
Claude Is Down
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780
Cloudflare is down and causing outages at X, OpenAI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780
What's the Least Amount of Process a Small Team Can Get Away With?
https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-depend.html
What were the best books you read in 2025?
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com
How to learn concurrency?
https://deadlockempire.github.io/
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/core/concurrency.html
https://github.com/dabeaz/concurrencylive
https://leetcode.com/problemset/concurrency/
https://www.os-book.com/OS10/
https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~greg/mpdbook/
Why is there black line on top? I guess not because of Cloudflare outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960368
How do you monitor the threads on HN you are engaging with?
https://hackernewsalerts.com
https://www.hnreplies.com
https://hnrss.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mindcrime
Cloudflare Down, Again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780
Senior people, how did your career evolve?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801184
https://staffeng.com/