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Top of Month - May 2013

1. Depression Part Two
   (10 May 2013 | 977 points | Comments)

2. Send money with Gmail
   (15 May 2013 | 779 points | Comments)

3. Induction powered LED lit engagement ring
   (22 May 2013 | 771 points | Comments)

4. Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
   (16 May 2013 | 760 points | Comments)

5. Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
   (1 May 2013 | 747 points | Comments)

6. Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
   (20 May 2013 | 743 points | Comments)

7. Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed
   (30 May 2013 | 690 points | Comments)

8. Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging
   (23 May 2013 | 677 points | Comments)

9. Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early
   (22 May 2013 | 670 points | Comments)

10. The One-Person Product
    (20 May 2013 | 666 points | Comments)

11. Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS
    (11 May 2013 | 656 points | Comments)

12. Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup
    (29 May 2013 | 643 points | Comments)

13. Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
    (15 May 2013 | 634 points | Comments)

14. US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits
    (27 May 2013 | 608 points | Comments)

15. Software will not be patentable in New Zealand
    (9 May 2013 | 592 points | Comments)

16. Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
    (7 May 2013 | 590 points | Comments)

17. The New Yorker Strongbox
    (15 May 2013 | 583 points | Comments)

18. Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
    (9 May 2013 | 571 points | Comments)

19. I Don't Want Your Fucking App
    (12 May 2013 | 560 points | Comments)

20. Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up
    (3 May 2013 | 558 points | Comments)

21. 42
    (26 May 2013 | 528 points | Comments)

22. Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet
    (4 May 2013 | 520 points | Comments)

23. Choosing Minecraft over Disney
    (19 May 2013 | 509 points | Comments)

24. Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
    (21 May 2013 | 506 points | Comments)

25. A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA
    (9 May 2013 | 501 points | Comments)

26. Git? tig
    (7 May 2013 | 499 points | Comments)

27. Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation
    (22 May 2013 | 499 points | Comments)

28. The Girl Who Turned to Bone
    (24 May 2013 | 499 points | Comments)

29. The Onion releases fartscroll.js
    (9 May 2013 | 490 points | Comments)

30. Two.js
    (7 May 2013 | 488 points | Comments)

31. Go 1.1 is released
    (13 May 2013 | 484 points | Comments)

32. Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand and shut down my shop
    (14 May 2013 | 482 points | Comments)

33. Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store
    (15 May 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

34. Hacker News is depressing
    (21 May 2013 | 463 points | Comments)

35. A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch
    (13 May 2013 | 459 points | Comments)

36. The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)
    (22 May 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

37. Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick
    (25 May 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

38. How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy
    (3 May 2013 | 452 points | Comments)

39. This page is anonymous
    (1 May 2013 | 450 points | Comments)

40. Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year
    (16 May 2013 | 449 points | Comments)

41. I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore
    (23 May 2013 | 448 points | Comments)

42. Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
    (22 May 2013 | 445 points | Comments)

43. Sydney tunnel water screen stop sign for oversized vehicles [video]
    (14 May 2013 | 443 points | Comments)

44. I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something
    (3 May 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

45. Introducing Android Studio
    (15 May 2013 | 437 points | Comments)

46. Pure: a set of small, responsive CSS modules
    (28 May 2013 | 432 points | Comments)

47. Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
    (8 May 2013 | 429 points | Comments)

48. Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released
    (5 May 2013 | 428 points | Comments)

49. What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
    (16 May 2013 | 425 points | Comments)

50. Lenticular Photo Used To Secretly Convey Hot Line Number To Abused Kids
    (5 May 2013 | 424 points | Comments)

51. A new Gmail inbox
    (29 May 2013 | 424 points | Comments)

52. The New Google Maps
    (15 May 2013 | 414 points | Comments)

53. Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fifth Amendment rights
    (28 May 2013 | 414 points | Comments)

54. Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
    (20 May 2013 | 404 points | Comments)

55. The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
    (14 May 2013 | 401 points | Comments)

56. Glass
    (30 May 2013 | 401 points | Comments)

57. Lying Microsoft Advertising
    (23 May 2013 | 397 points | Comments)

58. Statistical Formulas For Programmers
    (20 May 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

59. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
    (12 May 2013 | 394 points | Comments)

60. Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations
    (8 May 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

61. Every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes
    (14 May 2013 | 381 points | Comments)

62. Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS
    (14 May 2013 | 380 points | Comments)

63. The biggest merger you didn't hear about today
    (20 May 2013 | 377 points | Comments)

64. U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records
    (13 May 2013 | 373 points | Comments)

65. “The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car”
    (9 May 2013 | 370 points | Comments)

66. Web Framework Benchmarks Round 4
    (2 May 2013 | 369 points | Comments)

67. Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
    (13 May 2013 | 367 points | Comments)

68. Kiera Wilmot, student who caused small explosion, won't face charges
    (15 May 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

69. Manchester City Council
    (2 May 2013 | 363 points | Comments)

70. EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5
    (29 May 2013 | 361 points | Comments)

71. The story around the Linode hack
    (7 May 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

72. The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
    (21 May 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

73. Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
    (30 May 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

74. Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)
    (16 May 2013 | 354 points | Comments)

75. A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC
    (4 May 2013 | 352 points | Comments)

76. Soylent Campaign
    (21 May 2013 | 352 points | Comments)

77. Judge Wright issues Prenda Law order
    (7 May 2013 | 350 points | Comments)

78. Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
    (1 May 2013 | 345 points | Comments)

79. "Programmer. Come Work For Us"
    (14 May 2013 | 345 points | Comments)

80. Skype backdoor confirmation
    (18 May 2013 | 345 points | Comments)

81. Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor
    (11 May 2013 | 344 points | Comments)

82. Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep
    (14 May 2013 | 344 points | Comments)

83. Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
    (23 May 2013 | 335 points | Comments)

84. LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
    (9 May 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

85. Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft
    (14 May 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

86. Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
    (16 May 2013 | 334 points | Comments)

87. Evolution of Hacker News
    (18 May 2013 | 333 points | Comments)

88. Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons
    (31 May 2013 | 332 points | Comments)

89. Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11
    (16 May 2013 | 331 points | Comments)

90. John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell
    (7 May 2013 | 330 points | Comments)

91. Improving the security of your SSH private key files
    (24 May 2013 | 330 points | Comments)

92. Animated Vector Icons
    (3 May 2013 | 328 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
    (1 May 2013 | 327 points | Comments)

94. I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks
    (3 May 2013 | 325 points | Comments)

95. The Lethality of Loneliness
    (13 May 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

96. My one talk with Marissa Mayer
    (20 May 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

97. Linux To Become Exclusive OS Of The International Space Station
    (26 May 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

98. Pixar's Chris Horne Sheds New Light on Monsters University
    (28 May 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

99. A Personal API
    (31 May 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

100. Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the US
     (8 May 2013 | 320 points | Comments)