Distributed Systems Classics (2017)(nvartolomei.com)
329 points by grep_it | 68 comments
A curated reading list of classic, influential distributed systems research papers, such as Lamport's work on clocks and Byzantine generals, with DOI links.
#computer-science on Hacker News
18 stories tagged computer-science, newest first.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)(ocw.mit.edu)
339 points by gjvc | 44 comments
MIT OpenCourseWare page hosting the twenty 1986 SICP video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, recorded for Hewlett-Packard employees.
Michael Rabin has died(en.wikipedia.org)
402 points by tkhattra | 82 comments
Wikipedia biography of Michael O. Rabin, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, 1976 Turing Award co-recipient, who died April 14, 2026.
Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)
443 points by jfantl | 140 comments
A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.
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Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf](courses.csail.mit.edu)
366 points by vismit2000 | 62 comments
PDF of the 2018 revision of the MIT textbook Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, and Albert R. Meyer.
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science(beej.us)
332 points by amruthreddi | 126 comments
Landing page for Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science, a free work-in-progress beta guide offered in several HTML formats.
Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break(urlahmed.com)
373 points by linkregister | 303 comments
Personal blog post by an unemployed computer science new grad reflecting on a broken entry-level job market, the white collar recession, and automation.
Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category(blog.arxiv.org)
483 points by dw64 | 228 comments
arXiv blog post announcing that its computer science category has updated moderation practice for review/survey articles and position papers.
A visual introduction to big O notation(samwho.dev)
605 points by samwho | 170 comments
An interactive visual essay by Sam Rose explaining big O notation and how function running time grows with input size.
“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”(vidarholen.net)
382 points by r4um | 199 comments
Blog post on Vidar's Blog explaining that "programming" in "dynamic programming" refers to mathematical planning/optimization rather than computer programming.
Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS(github.com)
466 points by saikatsg | 139 comments
GitHub repository for Open Source Society University's free self-taught computer science curriculum built from online courses.
Succinct data structures(blog.startifact.com)
515 points by pavel_lishin | 84 comments
Blog post by Martijn Faassen introducing succinct data structures, drawn from a computer science paper he studied while trying to speed up code.
Dynamic programming is not black magic(qsantos.fr)
433 points by qsantos | 192 comments
A blog post by Quentin Santos explaining dynamic programming as an approachable algorithmic technique rather than black magic.
Turing Complete is a game about computer science(turingcomplete.game)
366 points by thunderbong | 102 comments
The website for Turing Complete, a game about building a computer from logic gates, which returned a 502 Bad Gateway error when captured.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures(xlinux.nist.gov)
337 points by gballan | 41 comments
NIST-hosted Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, a reference of algorithms, techniques, data structures, and problems edited by Paul E. Black.
Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
327 points by debanjan16 | 94 comments
Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.
Ask HN: What is new in algorithms and data structures these days?
528 points by jvanderbot | 159 comments
Ask HN thread asking for recent notable research results in algorithms and data structures, with replies mentioning topics like CRDTs.
The seven programming ur-languages (2021)(madhadron.com)
320 points by surprisetalk | 167 comments
An essay on the madhadron blog arguing that programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore, rather than near-identical mainstream ones.