top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-15

Announcing Rust 1.0

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html

11 years ago

1363 upvotes – 306 comments

B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/music/b-b-king-blues-singer-dies-at-89.html

11 years ago

647 upvotes – 86 comments

JavaScript at 20

http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/

11 years ago

427 upvotes – 315 comments

Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/12/intelligence-industry-cash-flows-media-echo-chamber-defending-nsa-surveillance/

11 years ago

322 upvotes – 85 comments

8^8 – Find another you

http://8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8.com/

11 years ago

306 upvotes – 161 comments

In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”

http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/my-first-mistake

11 years ago

277 upvotes – 94 comments

Replacing jQuery with D3

http://blog.webkid.io/replacing-jquery-with-d3/

11 years ago

195 upvotes – 61 comments

MAME is going completely open-source to be a 'learning tool for developers'

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/243598/MAME_is_going_open_source_to_be_a_learning_tool_for_developers.php

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 65 comments

Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html

11 years ago

185 upvotes – 156 comments

Secure yourself, Part 1: Air-gapped computer, GPG and smartcards

http://viccuad.me/blog/secure-yourself-part-1-airgapped-computer-and-GPG-smartcards/

11 years ago

171 upvotes – 58 comments

Atom's autocomplete just got better

http://blog.atom.io/2015/05/15/new-autocomplete.html

11 years ago

165 upvotes – 61 comments

Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes

http://lernertandsander.com/cubes/

11 years ago

163 upvotes – 44 comments

Street View, North Korea

http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/PU5f5QDJXBLbaLySNgpqMg

11 years ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

On the Taxonomy of Spaceships

http://criticalshit.org/2015/05/15/on-the-taxonomy-of-spaceships/

11 years ago

145 upvotes – 18 comments

The Little Prover

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-prover

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 20 comments

Wolfram Language

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/03/frontiers-of-computational-thinking-a-sxsw-report/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 90 comments

Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy (2013)

http://blog.alinelerner.com/silicon-valley-hiring-is-not-a-meritocracy/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 90 comments

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf]

http://landley.net/writing/hackermonthly-issue022-pg33.pdf

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 25 comments

Error Message Style Guide

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/error-style-guide.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 9 comments

STRML: Projects and Work

http://strml.net/

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 15 comments
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