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Top of Month - May 2012

1. Plagiarism
   (14 May 2012 | 1230 points | Comments)

2. Hunting Down My Son's Killer
   (29 May 2012 | 1139 points | Comments)

3. 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
   (29 May 2012 | 989 points | Comments)

4. Please don't learn to code
   (15 May 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

5. Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright
   (31 May 2012 | 735 points | Comments)

6. Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox
   (1 May 2012 | 723 points | Comments)

7. Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case
   (23 May 2012 | 723 points | Comments)

8. Recursive Drawing
   (10 May 2012 | 694 points | Comments)

9. The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
   (2 May 2012 | 688 points | Comments)

10. Being deaf
    (21 May 2012 | 676 points | Comments)

11. Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer
    (15 May 2012 | 670 points | Comments)

12. Please Learn to Code
    (15 May 2012 | 654 points | Comments)

13. Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
    (25 May 2012 | 585 points | Comments)

14. GitHub for Windows
    (21 May 2012 | 549 points | Comments)

15. The frequent fliers who flew too much
    (6 May 2012 | 546 points | Comments)

16. Welcome To Life
    (14 May 2012 | 545 points | Comments)

17. Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip
    (27 May 2012 | 536 points | Comments)

18. Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
    (11 May 2012 | 535 points | Comments)

19. Google is making a huge and annoying mistake
    (2 May 2012 | 534 points | Comments)

20. Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen
    (1 May 2012 | 531 points | Comments)

21. My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie
    (11 May 2012 | 524 points | Comments)

22. Android Ported to C#
    (1 May 2012 | 516 points | Comments)

23. Please learn to write
    (16 May 2012 | 516 points | Comments)

24. CSS arrow please
    (9 May 2012 | 515 points | Comments)

25. Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle
    (16 May 2012 | 494 points | Comments)

26. I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
    (10 May 2012 | 488 points | Comments)

27. RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
    (3 May 2012 | 485 points | Comments)

28. Want good programmers? Then pay them.
    (3 May 2012 | 481 points | Comments)

29. Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays
    (22 May 2012 | 475 points | Comments)

30. The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images
    (30 May 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

31. JQuery knobs
    (9 May 2012 | 472 points | Comments)

32. TED and inequality: The real story
    (17 May 2012 | 471 points | Comments)

33. IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
    (11 May 2012 | 459 points | Comments)

34. Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices
    (21 May 2012 | 458 points | Comments)

35. It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code
    (17 May 2012 | 457 points | Comments)

36. Pretty RFC
    (16 May 2012 | 453 points | Comments)

37. How text editing on the iPad should be
    (3 May 2012 | 436 points | Comments)

38. Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
    (8 May 2012 | 436 points | Comments)

39. Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
    (24 May 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

40. Introducing DuckDuckHack
    (1 May 2012 | 417 points | Comments)

41. Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown
    (31 May 2012 | 405 points | Comments)

42. Light Table is in YCS12
    (18 May 2012 | 401 points | Comments)

43. SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow
    (18 May 2012 | 386 points | Comments)

44. Coda 2
    (21 May 2012 | 376 points | Comments)

45. Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++
    (10 May 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

46. SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
    (22 May 2012 | 370 points | Comments)

47. After Facebook fails
    (24 May 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

48. Chromebox
    (31 May 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

49. The girl with the ANSI tattoo
    (31 May 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

50. Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
    (7 May 2012 | 364 points | Comments)

51. What time is it?
    (1 May 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

52. Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes
    (11 May 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

53. Dress code: blue tie and male
    (12 May 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

54. MIT and Harvard announce edX
    (2 May 2012 | 351 points | Comments)

55. Google open sources key piece of Street View technology
    (1 May 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

56. A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
    (3 May 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

57. Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions
    (9 May 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

58. Behind The Scenes At Adioso - Part 1: Reality Check
    (8 May 2012 | 348 points | Comments)

59. The future is specific
    (22 May 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

60. I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000
    (25 May 2012 | 346 points | Comments)

61. The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon
    (14 May 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

62. Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?
    (29 May 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

63. The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers
    (4 May 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

64. I put my family business on Facebook. Here’s what happened.
    (21 May 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

65. OpenShift by Red Hat
    (15 May 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

66. Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil
    (19 May 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

67. Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip
    (29 May 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

68. VLC has been downloaded over a billion times
    (14 May 2012 | 321 points | Comments)

69. Redactor - javascript (jQuery) WYSIWYG editor
    (28 May 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

70. The new Git-scm.com
    (4 May 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

71. "Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities"
    (10 May 2012 | 317 points | Comments)

72. Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs
    (16 May 2012 | 315 points | Comments)

73. Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
    (9 May 2012 | 314 points | Comments)

74. WYSIHTML5: A better approach to rich text editing
    (21 May 2012 | 312 points | Comments)

75. Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality
    (9 May 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

76. Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement
    (4 May 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

77. My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.
    (31 May 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

78. GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account
    (15 May 2012 | 308 points | Comments)

79. The THX Sound
    (27 May 2012 | 307 points | Comments)

80. Google's Code Editor
    (16 May 2012 | 303 points | Comments)

81. NASDAQ:FB
    (18 May 2012 | 303 points | Comments)

82. Recording police with your smartphone is a Constitutional right, says DoJ
    (18 May 2012 | 302 points | Comments)

83. FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites
    (4 May 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

84. Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.
    (18 May 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

85. The only way to get hold of a human at Google
    (23 May 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

86. Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car
    (22 May 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

87. It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it
    (11 May 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

88. The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
    (17 May 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

89. Getty's New Watermark
    (26 May 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

90. Getting Real book is now free PDF
    (23 May 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

91. Timeline of the far future
    (6 May 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

92. I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year
    (3 May 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

93. Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?
    (7 May 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

94. A set of top Computer Science blogs
    (8 May 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

95. When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
    (10 May 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

96. Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games
    (31 May 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

97. Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research
    (21 May 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

98. Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons
    (9 May 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

99. Mark Zuckerberg married
    (20 May 2012 | 290 points | Comments)

100. Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites
     (30 May 2012 | 290 points | Comments)