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A comment on Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depicted in movies?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depi... by acesubido on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @03:46AM (#4606319)
The starting scene on The Social Network. The way they depicted how Zuck pieced together the facemash app. It had no special effects, it was an accurate depiction of a hackathon session.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depi... by jbranchaud on Thursday October 04, 2012 @11:05AM (#4612623)
I cannot think of any other scene besides this that actually gives a reasonably realistic depiction of someone writing code/hacking. This is a good one!
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