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Top of Month - May 2010

1. A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
   (25 May 2010 | 491 points | Comments)

2. _why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius
   (15 May 2010 | 382 points | Comments)

3. I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.
   (11 May 2010 | 362 points | Comments)

4. Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"
   (13 May 2010 | 360 points | Comments)

5. Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
   (28 May 2010 | 357 points | Comments)

6. Google Prediction API
   (19 May 2010 | 355 points | Comments)

7. Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
   (4 May 2010 | 340 points | Comments)

8. Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
   (17 May 2010 | 325 points | Comments)

9. Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched
   (17 May 2010 | 321 points | Comments)

10. How real-world corruption works
    (26 May 2010 | 316 points | Comments)

11. Scribd in HTML
    (7 May 2010 | 315 points | Comments)

12. Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes.
    (6 May 2010 | 310 points | Comments)

13. Perfect email regex finally found
    (28 May 2010 | 310 points | Comments)

14. Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats
    (5 May 2010 | 301 points | Comments)

15. Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″
    (5 May 2010 | 299 points | Comments)

16. Play PacMan at google.com Now.
    (21 May 2010 | 298 points | Comments)

17. Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried
    (17 May 2010 | 296 points | Comments)

18. Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
    (18 May 2010 | 293 points | Comments)

19. What To Do With Your Millions
    (28 May 2010 | 291 points | Comments)

20. PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively
    (28 May 2010 | 281 points | Comments)

21. 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
    (20 May 2010 | 280 points | Comments)

22. An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)
    (14 May 2010 | 279 points | Comments)

23. The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
    (19 May 2010 | 275 points | Comments)

24. What iPads Did To My Family
    (7 May 2010 | 270 points | Comments)

25. Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
    (19 May 2010 | 268 points | Comments)

26. Why are the east of cities usually poorer?
    (31 May 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

27. Google ditches Windows on security concerns
    (31 May 2010 | 260 points | Comments)

28. Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour
    (14 May 2010 | 254 points | Comments)

29. American Express fails miserably at basic security
    (25 May 2010 | 252 points | Comments)

30. Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
    (8 May 2010 | 250 points | Comments)

31. How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable
    (5 May 2010 | 249 points | Comments)

32. I've Changed My Mind About The iPad
    (27 May 2010 | 249 points | Comments)

33. China drops Dropbox
    (10 May 2010 | 246 points | Comments)

34. Thursday = Thor's day
    (7 May 2010 | 245 points | Comments)

35. YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund
    (21 May 2010 | 238 points | Comments)

36. My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel
    (13 May 2010 | 236 points | Comments)

37. Work at a Startup
    (14 May 2010 | 236 points | Comments)

38. For loops help - comp.lang.c
    (12 May 2010 | 233 points | Comments)

39. Opera browser is much faster than a potato
    (28 May 2010 | 226 points | Comments)

40. Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
    (21 May 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

41. Primer (film)
    (28 May 2010 | 225 points | Comments)

42. Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested
    (11 May 2010 | 222 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06)
    (6 May 2010 | 220 points | Comments)

44. Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
    (5 May 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

45. Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft
    (26 May 2010 | 215 points | Comments)

46. Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new.
    (17 May 2010 | 213 points | Comments)

47. Django 1.2 released
    (17 May 2010 | 212 points | Comments)

48. Ask HN: HN Alternatives?
    (20 May 2010 | 210 points | Comments)

49. You’re Just the Founder
    (20 May 2010 | 208 points | Comments)

50. LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
    (18 May 2010 | 207 points | Comments)

51. Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function
    (27 May 2010 | 206 points | Comments)

52. Solving the Alt-Tab Problem
    (3 May 2010 | 204 points | Comments)

53. Gmail has become unusably slow
    (28 May 2010 | 203 points | Comments)

54. Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit
    (8 May 2010 | 202 points | Comments)

55. Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud
    (19 May 2010 | 201 points | Comments)

56. Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder
    (14 May 2010 | 195 points | Comments)

57. What happens to an unprotected human body in space?
    (21 May 2010 | 195 points | Comments)

58. Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation
    (8 May 2010 | 193 points | Comments)

59. I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA
    (18 May 2010 | 193 points | Comments)

60. It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux
    (12 May 2010 | 192 points | Comments)

61. Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
    (12 May 2010 | 190 points | Comments)

62. Your Office Chair Is Killing You
    (2 May 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

63. Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit
    (4 May 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

64. Google launches Google TV
    (20 May 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

65. I am one of the creators of the first "synthetic" bacterial cell. AMA
    (21 May 2010 | 188 points | Comments)

66. On Working Remotely
    (6 May 2010 | 187 points | Comments)

67. Steam version of Max Payne 2 is a version cracked by pirate group Myth
    (13 May 2010 | 187 points | Comments)

68. The Google (Ads) Job Experiment
    (13 May 2010 | 186 points | Comments)

69. The Humble Indie Game Bundle
    (4 May 2010 | 185 points | Comments)

70. If Mario Was Designed in 2010
    (5 May 2010 | 183 points | Comments)

71. How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet
    (25 May 2010 | 182 points | Comments)

72. WebM - an open web media project
    (19 May 2010 | 181 points | Comments)

73. I’m graduating with a CS degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.
    (13 May 2010 | 180 points | Comments)

74. Life is Beautiful
    (11 May 2010 | 177 points | Comments)

75. GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store
    (26 May 2010 | 177 points | Comments)

76. How do emulators work and how are they written?
    (15 May 2010 | 176 points | Comments)

77. Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial
    (17 May 2010 | 176 points | Comments)

78. A Cover Letter To Penny Arcade
    (6 May 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

79. The technology behind the new Google Docs editor
    (11 May 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

80. Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android
    (21 May 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

81. Lessons learned from 13 failed software products
    (27 May 2010 | 175 points | Comments)

82. More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart
    (9 May 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

83. What are the lesser known but cool data structures?
    (22 May 2010 | 174 points | Comments)

84. Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure
    (11 May 2010 | 173 points | Comments)

85. The latest version of the LittleDog robot
    (23 May 2010 | 173 points | Comments)

86. Get Portal for free
    (12 May 2010 | 172 points | Comments)

87. PyPy is the Future of Python
    (16 May 2010 | 172 points | Comments)

88. Rubinius 1.0 (Fabius) Released
    (14 May 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

89. Snap: A Haskell Web Framework
    (22 May 2010 | 171 points | Comments)

90. HN Members' Workspaces
    (2 May 2010 | 170 points | Comments)

91. Introduction To Online Payments - TL;DR: It's A Total Bitch
    (4 May 2010 | 170 points | Comments)

92. Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence
    (27 May 2010 | 170 points | Comments)

93. Learning Advanced JavaScript
    (1 May 2010 | 169 points | Comments)

94. Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O
    (18 May 2010 | 169 points | Comments)

95. The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
    (24 May 2010 | 169 points | Comments)

96. Obviously, HP Thinks We Are Stupid
    (25 May 2010 | 169 points | Comments)

97. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife)
    (14 May 2010 | 168 points | Comments)

98. The Secret Lives of Professors (What Being a Professor is Really Like)
    (24 May 2010 | 168 points | Comments)

99. Academia and the decline of wealth in America
    (5 May 2010 | 166 points | Comments)

100. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
     (7 May 2010 | 166 points | Comments)