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Top of Month - May 2011

1. Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
   (17 May 2011 | 1820 points | Comments)

2. TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
   (18 May 2011 | 1056 points | Comments)

3. Osama bin Laden Is Dead
   (2 May 2011 | 924 points | Comments)

4. Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
   (12 May 2011 | 779 points | Comments)

5. This Guy Has My MacBook
   (31 May 2011 | 741 points | Comments)

6. Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
   (13 May 2011 | 667 points | Comments)

7. How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
   (31 May 2011 | 654 points | Comments)

8. Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad
   (2 May 2011 | 638 points | Comments)

9. The Last Post
   (4 May 2011 | 604 points | Comments)

10. John Resig joins the Khan Academy
    (3 May 2011 | 585 points | Comments)

11. LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things
    (8 May 2011 | 559 points | Comments)

12. Cool, but obscure Unix tools
    (20 May 2011 | 534 points | Comments)

13. You can increase your intelligence
    (19 May 2011 | 519 points | Comments)

14. Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25
    (5 May 2011 | 518 points | Comments)

15. Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves
    (12 May 2011 | 486 points | Comments)

16. My daughter was first sued in the womb
    (16 May 2011 | 477 points | Comments)

17. Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
    (4 May 2011 | 470 points | Comments)

18. "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday
    (19 May 2011 | 467 points | Comments)

19. Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
    (27 May 2011 | 463 points | Comments)

20. Google Chrome Hacked?
    (9 May 2011 | 450 points | Comments)

21. Chromebook
    (11 May 2011 | 446 points | Comments)

22. Top Programming Fonts
    (25 May 2011 | 439 points | Comments)

23. Loren wants to work at Airbnb
    (30 May 2011 | 423 points | Comments)

24. Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
    (10 May 2011 | 421 points | Comments)

25. The Ballmer Days Are Over
    (12 May 2011 | 420 points | Comments)

26. Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins
    (5 May 2011 | 416 points | Comments)

27. Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
    (23 May 2011 | 413 points | Comments)

28. Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody
    (1 May 2011 | 410 points | Comments)

29. Startups Are Hard
    (2 May 2011 | 410 points | Comments)

30. In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley
    (11 May 2011 | 406 points | Comments)

31. HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
    (27 May 2011 | 402 points | Comments)

32. Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA
    (19 May 2011 | 396 points | Comments)

33. FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue
    (11 May 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

34. Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly
    (14 May 2011 | 395 points | Comments)

35. Was LinkedIn Scammed?
    (21 May 2011 | 393 points | Comments)

36. “Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It
    (26 May 2011 | 393 points | Comments)

37. You don't get shit you don't ask for
    (31 May 2011 | 387 points | Comments)

38. Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code
    (28 May 2011 | 380 points | Comments)

39. DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on
    (5 May 2011 | 368 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
    (20 May 2011 | 367 points | Comments)

41. Google humans.txt
    (6 May 2011 | 358 points | Comments)

42. Stallman's Dystopia
    (20 May 2011 | 347 points | Comments)

43. BankSimple: We have cards
    (20 May 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

44. The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
    (25 May 2011 | 346 points | Comments)

45. Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do
    (19 May 2011 | 345 points | Comments)

46. What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard
    (31 May 2011 | 342 points | Comments)

47. Vico Editor (Mac text editor)
    (1 May 2011 | 328 points | Comments)

48. Let’s mug a startup founder
    (10 May 2011 | 326 points | Comments)

49. FBI Tracking Device Teardown
    (9 May 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

50. Mono Developers start their own company
    (16 May 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

51. It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
    (27 May 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
    (1 May 2011 | 324 points | Comments)

53. Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly
    (26 May 2011 | 323 points | Comments)

54. What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?
    (9 May 2011 | 321 points | Comments)

55. JQuery 1.6 released
    (3 May 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

56. Chrome has transcended version numbers
    (23 May 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

57. Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
    (4 May 2011 | 316 points | Comments)

58. On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
    (27 May 2011 | 313 points | Comments)

59. Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
    (13 May 2011 | 310 points | Comments)

60. Telescopictext
    (15 May 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

61. G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed
    (24 May 2011 | 309 points | Comments)

62. Going Paper-Free for $220
    (26 May 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

63. Roger Ebert: The dying of the light
    (26 May 2011 | 297 points | Comments)

64. How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
    (3 May 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

65. Why Geeks Should Love HP WebOS
    (11 May 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

66. Einstein Was Right: NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment
    (20 May 2011 | 294 points | Comments)

67. Why Google's hiring process is broken
    (17 May 2011 | 293 points | Comments)

68. Google Code University
    (10 May 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

69. Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone.
    (16 May 2011 | 292 points | Comments)

70. Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts
    (2 May 2011 | 289 points | Comments)

71. Getting Users For Your New Startup
    (6 May 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

72. Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke
    (31 May 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

73. Joe Hewitt : I'm an indie developer now.
    (7 May 2011 | 284 points | Comments)

74. Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid
    (5 May 2011 | 282 points | Comments)

75. Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app
    (11 May 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

76. Do not let your domain expire with Google Apps
    (18 May 2011 | 281 points | Comments)

77. Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation
    (17 May 2011 | 280 points | Comments)

78. The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men
    (31 May 2011 | 280 points | Comments)

79. Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
    (25 May 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

80. Hacking Hacker News Headlines
    (5 May 2011 | 275 points | Comments)

81. The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers
    (6 May 2011 | 274 points | Comments)

82. Apple not providing LGPL webkit source code for latest iOS 4.3.x
    (6 May 2011 | 274 points | Comments)

83. Pixar: Getting over embarrassment
    (30 May 2011 | 273 points | Comments)

84. After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses
    (2 May 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

85. C++ at Google: Here Be Dragons
    (23 May 2011 | 271 points | Comments)

86. Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys
    (23 May 2011 | 270 points | Comments)

87. Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
    (18 May 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

88. Why I get my entertainment via BitTorrent
    (12 May 2011 | 268 points | Comments)

89. 1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen
    (26 May 2011 | 268 points | Comments)

90. Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine ever invented
    (2 May 2011 | 267 points | Comments)

91. Sony loses 12,700 credit card numbers
    (2 May 2011 | 267 points | Comments)

92. PSN has been hacked again
    (18 May 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

93. Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?
    (14 May 2011 | 264 points | Comments)

94. Guy Asks For Software Crack, Creator Provides Free App Instead
    (19 May 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

95. Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs
    (7 May 2011 | 259 points | Comments)

96. The tent that turns into concrete in less than 24 hours
    (18 May 2011 | 259 points | Comments)

97. How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS
    (28 May 2011 | 255 points | Comments)

98. Visualisation of Machine Learning Algorithms
    (30 May 2011 | 254 points | Comments)

99. The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".
    (13 May 2011 | 253 points | Comments)

100. Erlang inventor: Why do we need modules and files?
     (24 May 2011 | 252 points | Comments)