I have been on HN a long time, I remember reading this back in 2008 and learning from it. It’s been posted a lot but that’s an indication of an important educat

I have been on HN a long time, I remember reading this back in 2008 and learning from it. It’s been posted a lot but that’s an indication of an important educational resource: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20to%20Write%20a%20Spelling%20Corrector&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20to%20Write%20a%20Spellin... Amusingly half the comments from the first time it was posted (2007) are about how the post is a dupe… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587 Another brilliant one is PGs “a plan for Spam”: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html