Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Science?

• learn-you-a-haskell

  78 297 0.0 Makefile

  “Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!” by Miran Lipovača

  Learn You A Haskell is full of useful illustrations.

  http://learnyouahaskell.com/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• ClickHouse

  217 36,555 10.0 C++

  ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics DBMS

  

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

  I want to make use of it in ClickHouse, but we did not (yet), see https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/41195

• a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words

  7 11,148 6.7

  I am trying to describe complex matters in simple doodles!

  https://github.com/girliemac/a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words

  Specially the git-purr one that explains git.

• Encoder

  14 546 2.3 C++

  Quadrature Encoder Library for Arduino

  I can't really come up with any good illustrations for something complex off the top of my head, so I'll go for a really simple one. In fact, that's part of it's beauty.

  When I had to deal with the signals from a rotary encoder the first time (being a programmer with two left hands and zero hardware affinity), I had a look at a couple of C libraries but didn't have the patience to slog through their implementations in order to understand what signals they were decoding.

  ...until I saw this: https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/Encoder/blob/master/Encode...

  I'm not sure if it was this exact library, but that's the comment I saw. Nice and obvious, in contrast to all the obscure attempts to convey what was happening all the other libs made through prose comments.

• LinuxTimeline

  38 1,634 0.0 Shell

  Linux Distributions Timeline

  Not sure you can find diffs, but this is the repository that builds that svg in case you wanna poke around: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline

• Om

  2 166 10.0 C++

  The Om programming language. (by sparist)

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