top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-24

John Nash Has Died

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/famed_a_beautiful_mind_mathematician_wife_killed_in_taxi_crash_police_say.html

11 years ago

1282 upvotes – 249 comments

Losing it All

http://shakycode.com/post/119775920434/losing-it-all

11 years ago

331 upvotes – 165 comments

Rust Playground

http://play.rust-lang.org/

11 years ago

257 upvotes – 42 comments

John Nash's letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf]

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/nash_letters/nash_letters1.pdf

11 years ago

238 upvotes – 47 comments

The responsibility we have as software engineers

http://benlog.com/2015/05/23/the-responsibility-we-have-as-software-engineers/

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 130 comments

P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX40hbAHx3s/

11 years ago

190 upvotes – 53 comments

After Senate vote, NSA prepares to shut down phone tracking program

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nsa-tracking-program-20150523-story.html

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 88 comments

The Restful CookBook

http://restcookbook.com/

11 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Can a Font Make Us Believe Something Is True?

http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/can-a-font-make-us-believe-something-is-true/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 66 comments

My Microsoft Experience (2013)

http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2013/12/17/my-microsoft-experience-13/

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 112 comments

A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4630

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 19 comments

Mach7: Pattern Matching for C++

https://github.com/solodon4/Mach7

11 years ago

★ 1.3k C++
109 upvotes – 27 comments

Math Blaster Copy Protection

https://ia802301.us.archive.org/11/items/MathBlaster4amCrack/Math%20Blaster%20%284am%20crack%29.txt

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 20 comments

Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals – A DSP Primer

http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 2 comments

MenuetOS 1.0 – 1.5 MB OS written entirely in assembly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAOQ-hPqIE

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 24 comments

Building Microsoft Surface Pro 3 [video]

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3302

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 28 comments

Scrape: A simple, higher level interface for Go web scraping

https://github.com/yhat/scrape

11 years ago

★ 1.5k Go BSD-2-Clause
79 upvotes – 15 comments

In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/technology/in-busy-silicon-valley-protein-powder-is-in-demand.html

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 80 comments

Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Linux kernel initialization, part 10: Running first process

https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Initialization/linux-initialization-10.md

11 years ago

★ 32.5k Python
72 upvotes – 1 comments
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