Observed arrival · 2026-11-09
Hacker Tutorials turns Hacker News votes into build-from-scratch curricula
A catalog of ordered, from-scratch programming courses assembled from tutorials that Hacker News users upvoted.
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- Self-directed programmers learning systems by building them
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- The operating-system path spans 23 sources and estimates 6–9 months of part-time study.
Field notes
Course paths combine sources across years and expose their Hacker News submission counts and score distributions, rather than presenting a single tutorial as a complete curriculum. The database path describes a progression toward a key-value store with a B+tree, crash recovery, transactions, and a small SQL layer. The network-stack path includes projects such as a DNS resolver that walks from root servers and a toy TLS 1.3 client that talks to a real server.
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