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1.John Nash Has Died (nj.com)
1282 points by rcina on May 24, 2015 | 249 comments
2.Losing it All (shakycode.com)
331 points by shakycode on May 24, 2015 | 165 comments
3.Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse (steveblank.com)
229 points by webhat on May 23, 2015 | 73 comments
4.Rust Playground (rust-lang.org)
257 points by dolftax on May 24, 2015 | 42 comments
5.John Nash's letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf] (nsa.gov)
238 points by jonbaer on May 24, 2015 | 47 comments
πŸ“š. The World’s Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
25 min read | by Asimov Press | saved 155 days ago | 24% read | archive
6.Can a Font Make Us Believe Something Is True? (aiga.org)
134 points by pmcpinto on May 24, 2015 | 66 comments
7.P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
190 points by luu on May 24, 2015 | 53 comments
8.A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open (textfiles.com)
113 points by Mithrandir on May 24, 2015 | 19 comments
9.Mach7: Pattern Matching for C++ (github.com/solodon4)
109 points by adamnemecek on May 24, 2015 | 27 comments
10.How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers (priceonomics.com)
113 points by nols on May 23, 2015 | 62 comments
πŸ“š. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (joelonsoftware.com)
15 min read | by About The Author. & In I Co-… | saved 158 days ago | archive
11.The Restful CookBook (restcookbook.com)
149 points by brudgers on May 24, 2015 | 47 comments
12.Math Blaster Copy Protection (archive.org)
98 points by wbl on May 24, 2015 | 20 comments
13.Extracting Audio from Pictures (mediapreservation.wordpress.com)
69 points by shawndumas on May 24, 2015 | 10 comments
14.Unclimbable (sbnation.com)
58 points by benbreen on May 24, 2015 | 8 comments
15.Scrape: A simple, higher level interface for Go web scraping (github.com/yhat)
79 points by ericchiang on May 24, 2015 | 15 comments
πŸ“š. The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction (kyla.substack.com)
16 min read | by kyla scanlon | saved 299 days ago | 99% read | archive
16.Convert Servers to Docker Containers (zwischenzugs.wordpress.com)
61 points by zwischenzug on May 24, 2015 | 34 comments
17.MenuetOS 1.0 – 1.5 MB OS written entirely in assembly [video] (youtube.com)
92 points by paulcarroty on May 24, 2015 | 24 comments
18.The responsibility we have as software engineers (benlog.com)
193 points by ingve on May 24, 2015 | 130 comments
19.Building Microsoft Surface Pro 3 [video] (msdn.com)
80 points by doczoidberg on May 24, 2015 | 28 comments
20.A Giant, Fake City in the Middle of the Desert (theatlantic.com)
36 points by ohjeez on May 23, 2015 | 39 comments
πŸ“š. Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction (acoup.blog)
31 min read | by Bret Devereaux | saved 174 days ago | 22% read | archive
21.Pronounceable Anagrams (smithamilli.com)
65 points by iheartramen on May 24, 2015 | 7 comments
22.Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011) (scientificamerican.com)
74 points by rosser on May 24, 2015 | 21 comments
23.Linux kernel initialization, part 10: Running first process (github.com/0xax)
72 points by 0xAX on May 24, 2015 | 1 comment
24.OCaml Modules: Think Immutable Singletons (eatonphil.com)
49 points by eatonphil on May 24, 2015 | 22 comments
25. [dupe] Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals – A DSP Primer (jackschaedler.github.io)
98 points by sytelus on May 24, 2015 | 2 comments
πŸ“š. From Memo to Movement: (firstround.com)
14 min read | by firstround.com | saved 206 days ago | archive
26.Saving Arabica coffee (bbc.com)
57 points by jdnier on May 24, 2015 | 20 comments
27.Linkers, part 1 (2007) (airs.com)
51 points by weinzierl on May 24, 2015 | 7 comments
28.Rumprun and Nginx unikernel working on KVM, Xen and bare metal (freelists.org)
56 points by fcambus on May 24, 2015 | 2 comments
29.Cryptol: DSL for specifying cryptographic algorithms (cryptol.net)
50 points by xkarga00 on May 23, 2015 | 5 comments
30.How Things Break: Ali fought Liston 50 years ago (slate.com)
46 points by Thevet on May 24, 2015 | 4 comments
πŸ“š. My Favorite Chad Jones Papers (forourposterity.com)
8 min read | by Leopold Aschenbrenner | saved 207 days ago | archive

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