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Top of Month - May 2015
  1. Lily – Drone camera
    (12 May 2015 | 1397 points | Comments)

  2. Announcing Rust 1.0
    (15 May 2015 | 1363 points | Comments)

  3. John Nash Has Died
    (24 May 2015 | 1282 points | Comments)

  4. Be Kind
    (12 May 2015 | 1198 points | Comments)

  5. Tesla Energy
    (1 May 2015 | 1162 points | Comments)

  6. GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
    (29 May 2015 | 1038 points | Comments)

  7. Postgres gets support for upsert
    (8 May 2015 | 1003 points | Comments)

  8. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
    (21 May 2015 | 913 points | Comments)

  9. Fractal Lab
    (4 May 2015 | 900 points | Comments)

  10. Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it
    (12 May 2015 | 803 points | Comments)

  11. Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
    (13 May 2015 | 794 points | Comments)

  12. Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
    (5 May 2015 | 698 points | Comments)

  13. Solved by Flexbox
    (22 May 2015 | 671 points | Comments)

  14. Show HN: Twenty
    (14 May 2015 | 666 points | Comments)

  15. U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court
    (7 May 2015 | 653 points | Comments)

  16. Talking About Money
    (1 May 2015 | 650 points | Comments)

  17. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
    (15 May 2015 | 647 points | Comments)

  18. Get Your Shit Together
    (19 May 2015 | 635 points | Comments)

  19. Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
    (19 May 2015 | 633 points | Comments)

  20. Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
    (29 May 2015 | 623 points | Comments)

  21. Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
    (26 May 2015 | 605 points | Comments)

  22. Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation
    (21 May 2015 | 604 points | Comments)

  23. How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
    (13 May 2015 | 602 points | Comments)

  24. Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
    (22 May 2015 | 582 points | Comments)

  25. Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
    (11 May 2015 | 579 points | Comments)

  26. Grooveshark Shuts Down
    (1 May 2015 | 555 points | Comments)

  27. Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh
    (31 May 2015 | 553 points | Comments)

  28. Facebook PathPicker
    (7 May 2015 | 538 points | Comments)

  29. Project Jacquard
    (29 May 2015 | 531 points | Comments)

  30. The programming talent myth
    (4 May 2015 | 510 points | Comments)

  31. MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
    (29 May 2015 | 506 points | Comments)

  32. I would have hired Doug, but...
    (6 May 2015 | 505 points | Comments)

  33. Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
    (14 May 2015 | 503 points | Comments)

  34. Wait, Google Sent Me
    (12 May 2015 | 502 points | Comments)

  35. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
    (1 May 2015 | 501 points | Comments)

  36. Microsoft TouchDevelop
    (14 May 2015 | 500 points | Comments)

  37. Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
    (23 May 2015 | 491 points | Comments)

  38. “I'm wiping this repository away”
    (20 May 2015 | 485 points | Comments)

  39. Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?
    (22 May 2015 | 485 points | Comments)

  40. The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious
    (28 May 2015 | 483 points | Comments)

  41. Unhappy Birthday
    (25 May 2015 | 479 points | Comments)

  42. Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem
    (31 May 2015 | 479 points | Comments)

  43. Rearchitecting GitHub Pages
    (27 May 2015 | 477 points | Comments)

  44. NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats
    (7 May 2015 | 473 points | Comments)

  45. Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
    (2 May 2015 | 468 points | Comments)

  46. Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011)
    (6 May 2015 | 462 points | Comments)

  47. PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web
    (6 May 2015 | 461 points | Comments)

  48. Goodbye, Sourceforge
    (29 May 2015 | 459 points | Comments)

  49. Fish shell
    (18 May 2015 | 451 points | Comments)

  50. Go in Go
    (27 May 2015 | 447 points | Comments)

  51. Jump – Experiences like you're actually there
    (28 May 2015 | 445 points | Comments)

  52. Silk
    (23 May 2015 | 442 points | Comments)

  53. Rust for Python Programmers
    (27 May 2015 | 442 points | Comments)

  54. A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
    (12 May 2015 | 440 points | Comments)

  55. Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
    (11 May 2015 | 439 points | Comments)

  56. FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers
    (12 May 2015 | 428 points | Comments)

  57. EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US
    (25 May 2015 | 428 points | Comments)

  58. JavaScript at 20
    (15 May 2015 | 427 points | Comments)

  59. 210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum
    (8 May 2015 | 425 points | Comments)

  60. The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies
    (6 May 2015 | 418 points | Comments)

  61. Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
    (10 May 2015 | 418 points | Comments)

  62. Improve your touch typing
    (20 May 2015 | 413 points | Comments)

  63. Cops: We Need Rights More Than You, Citizen
    (3 May 2015 | 411 points | Comments)

  64. Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos
    (17 May 2015 | 408 points | Comments)

  65. FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S
    (27 May 2015 | 405 points | Comments)

  66. Take the Money and Run
    (8 May 2015 | 404 points | Comments)

  67. Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
    (11 May 2015 | 402 points | Comments)

  68. Test drive of a petrol car
    (4 May 2015 | 401 points | Comments)

  69. Guide for Technical Development
    (12 May 2015 | 396 points | Comments)

  70. What one may find in robots.txt
    (18 May 2015 | 393 points | Comments)

  71. Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger
    (27 May 2015 | 391 points | Comments)

  72. Racking Mac Pros
    (6 May 2015 | 388 points | Comments)

  73. RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting
    (21 May 2015 | 384 points | Comments)

  74. Call me maybe: Aerospike
    (5 May 2015 | 383 points | Comments)

  75. PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices
    (20 May 2015 | 380 points | Comments)

  76. Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
    (20 May 2015 | 374 points | Comments)

  77. The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop
    (16 May 2015 | 369 points | Comments)

  78. House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
    (13 May 2015 | 368 points | Comments)

  79. Why I Sold My Company and Didn't Tell Anyone for a Year
    (28 May 2015 | 363 points | Comments)

  80. Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source
    (26 May 2015 | 362 points | Comments)

  81. Antimony – A fresh look at CAD software
    (29 May 2015 | 357 points | Comments)

  82. Servo Continues Pushing Forward
    (1 May 2015 | 354 points | Comments)

  83. Tmux 2.0 released
    (7 May 2015 | 353 points | Comments)

  84. Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
    (8 May 2015 | 353 points | Comments)

  85. Popcorn Time in Your Browser
    (19 May 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

  86. “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
    (30 May 2015 | 349 points | Comments)

  87. UK government quietly rewrites hacking laws to give GCHQ immunity
    (17 May 2015 | 348 points | Comments)

  88. Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study
    (18 May 2015 | 346 points | Comments)

  89. My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator
    (14 May 2015 | 345 points | Comments)

  90. Thoughtcrime
    (18 May 2015 | 344 points | Comments)

  91. How to Build a Unicorn and Walk Away with Nothing
    (9 May 2015 | 341 points | Comments)

  92. Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
    (14 May 2015 | 339 points | Comments)

  93. Show HN: An Isomorphic JavaScript Framework Faster Than React
    (26 May 2015 | 337 points | Comments)

  94. The Failure of Agile
    (13 May 2015 | 335 points | Comments)

  95. How I do my computing
    (17 May 2015 | 334 points | Comments)

  96. Logjam TLS attack
    (20 May 2015 | 334 points | Comments)

  97. Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
    (11 May 2015 | 332 points | Comments)

  98. Losing it All
    (24 May 2015 | 331 points | Comments)

  99. Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
    (5 May 2015 | 328 points | Comments)

  100. Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison
    (21 May 2015 | 328 points | Comments)