Hacker Wisdom

A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.

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Have you ever seen a perfect codebase?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check

What does "legacy code" mean to you?

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-effectively-with/0131177052/

Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/

https://www.hetzner.com/sb/

Why does Y Combinator seem to be consistently funding AI slop?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2EZqQ-p1XkybYp21llKCfLsME

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

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

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/

Senior people, how did your career evolve?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801184

https://staffeng.com/

What were the best books you read in 2025?

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com