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Top of Month - May 2014

1. Don't mess with Newegg
   (23 May 2014 | 1469 points | Comments)

2. 2048, success and me
   (6 May 2014 | 925 points | Comments)

3. Atom Is Now Open Source
   (6 May 2014 | 914 points | Comments)

4. Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
   (20 May 2014 | 806 points | Comments)

5. The future of Unreal Tournament begins today
   (8 May 2014 | 803 points | Comments)

6. TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
   (28 May 2014 | 797 points | Comments)

7. The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
   (15 May 2014 | 782 points | Comments)

8. Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
   (20 May 2014 | 781 points | Comments)

9. The next version of DuckDuckGo
   (5 May 2014 | 738 points | Comments)

10. FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
    (15 May 2014 | 679 points | Comments)

11. Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
    (25 May 2014 | 648 points | Comments)

12. Using the wrong dictionary
    (20 May 2014 | 635 points | Comments)

13. Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
    (13 May 2014 | 632 points | Comments)

14. Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
    (12 May 2014 | 623 points | Comments)

15. New DuckDuckGo design
    (20 May 2014 | 614 points | Comments)

16. Sistine Chapel
    (30 May 2014 | 608 points | Comments)

17. All of Bach
    (9 May 2014 | 607 points | Comments)

18. Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
    (4 May 2014 | 600 points | Comments)

19. OS X Command Line Utilities
    (15 May 2014 | 567 points | Comments)

20. The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
    (7 May 2014 | 566 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
    (2 May 2014 | 559 points | Comments)

22. Tell HN: Call your mom
    (11 May 2014 | 555 points | Comments)

23. Burying the URL
    (1 May 2014 | 553 points | Comments)

24. An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
    (1 May 2014 | 553 points | Comments)

25. Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
    (28 May 2014 | 540 points | Comments)

26. Scribd and Quora considered harmful
    (25 May 2014 | 511 points | Comments)

27. Google is Breaking the Internet
    (18 May 2014 | 503 points | Comments)

28. Introducing Socket.io 1.0
    (28 May 2014 | 498 points | Comments)

29. AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
    (14 May 2014 | 492 points | Comments)

30. Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
    (13 May 2014 | 491 points | Comments)

31. Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
    (12 May 2014 | 483 points | Comments)

32. Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
    (12 May 2014 | 468 points | Comments)

33. We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
    (29 May 2014 | 466 points | Comments)

34. FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM
    (15 May 2014 | 459 points | Comments)

35. It's Different for Girls
    (2 May 2014 | 427 points | Comments)

36. Observations of an Internet Middleman
    (5 May 2014 | 424 points | Comments)

37. Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
    (15 May 2014 | 424 points | Comments)

38. PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source
    (22 May 2014 | 421 points | Comments)

39. How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
    (29 May 2014 | 421 points | Comments)

40. Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
    (7 May 2014 | 420 points | Comments)

41. ‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
    (13 May 2014 | 418 points | Comments)

42. Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
    (4 May 2014 | 417 points | Comments)

43. Maze Tree
    (14 May 2014 | 414 points | Comments)

44. Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
    (7 May 2014 | 410 points | Comments)

45. Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
    (22 May 2014 | 408 points | Comments)

46. Git 2.0
    (29 May 2014 | 405 points | Comments)

47. Common Python Mistakes
    (8 May 2014 | 404 points | Comments)

48. YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
    (18 May 2014 | 403 points | Comments)

49. State of MetaFilter
    (19 May 2014 | 400 points | Comments)

50. Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
    (23 May 2014 | 395 points | Comments)

51. How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn
    (17 May 2014 | 392 points | Comments)

52. For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome
    (29 May 2014 | 391 points | Comments)

53. The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
    (21 May 2014 | 389 points | Comments)

54. Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API
    (8 May 2014 | 387 points | Comments)

55. Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors
    (15 May 2014 | 387 points | Comments)

56. iMessage purgatory
    (13 May 2014 | 386 points | Comments)

57. How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
    (9 May 2014 | 382 points | Comments)

58. Python 3 can revive Python
    (26 May 2014 | 379 points | Comments)

59. What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?
    (19 May 2014 | 376 points | Comments)

60. Google's XSS game
    (29 May 2014 | 376 points | Comments)

61. Bring Reading Rainbow Back
    (28 May 2014 | 374 points | Comments)

62. A Hacker’s Guide to Git
    (27 May 2014 | 372 points | Comments)

63. Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
    (14 May 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

64. Pain we forgot
    (17 May 2014 | 364 points | Comments)

65. OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready
    (19 May 2014 | 364 points | Comments)

66. I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
    (16 May 2014 | 363 points | Comments)

67. Octotree: the missing GitHub tree view (Chrome extension)
    (13 May 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

68. True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
    (29 May 2014 | 360 points | Comments)

69. The slow death of purposeless walking
    (1 May 2014 | 353 points | Comments)

70. How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
    (2 May 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

71. Surface Pro 3
    (23 May 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

72. The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
    (19 May 2014 | 348 points | Comments)

73. How Apple Cheats
    (28 May 2014 | 348 points | Comments)

74. Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript
    (12 May 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

75. Some of the work we did at Danger
    (22 May 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

76. Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
    (28 May 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

77. Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast
    (30 May 2014 | 339 points | Comments)

78. Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
    (24 May 2014 | 338 points | Comments)

79. “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”
    (16 May 2014 | 337 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
    (1 May 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

81. Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work
    (16 May 2014 | 336 points | Comments)

82. Minimum Viable Block Chain
    (5 May 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

83. My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
    (22 May 2014 | 335 points | Comments)

84. Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation
    (23 May 2014 | 334 points | Comments)

85. HipChat is now free for unlimited users
    (27 May 2014 | 333 points | Comments)

86. How LEDs are Made
    (30 May 2014 | 332 points | Comments)

87. Osmo
    (22 May 2014 | 331 points | Comments)

88. The logic of Buddhist philosophy
    (8 May 2014 | 330 points | Comments)

89. RSS: What Not Dying Looks Like
    (6 May 2014 | 328 points | Comments)

90. The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest
    (29 May 2014 | 326 points | Comments)

91. Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets
    (26 May 2014 | 325 points | Comments)

92. Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands
    (1 May 2014 | 324 points | Comments)

93. HTTP/2.0 – Please admit defeat
    (26 May 2014 | 323 points | Comments)

94. The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
    (12 May 2014 | 322 points | Comments)

95. The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later
    (16 May 2014 | 321 points | Comments)

96. Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers
    (12 May 2014 | 317 points | Comments)

97. Computers are fast
    (13 May 2014 | 315 points | Comments)

98. The Internet With A Human Face
    (26 May 2014 | 315 points | Comments)

99. An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2
    (8 May 2014 | 313 points | Comments)

100. The new VirginAmerica.com
     (23 May 2014 | 313 points | Comments)