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Ask HN: Best codebases to study to learn software design?

107 points pixelworm | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 05:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

I’m working on improving my software design skills, and it was recommended that I study existing well designed codebases. What are some publicly accessible codebases you would consider gold standards for software design?
1. BobbyTables2 ◴[25 Aug 25 03:04 UTC] No.45009803[source]▶
Go the other way.

Study and fix shitty code.

Find college students who wrote a web server and put it on GitHub for the world to see.

Find all the bugs and then see how many integer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited to crash it … or worse.