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Top of Month - May 2016

1. Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
   (26 May 2016 | 1832 points | Comments)

2. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
   (20 May 2016 | 1612 points | Comments)

3. Introducing unlimited private repositories
   (11 May 2016 | 1576 points | Comments)

4. Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
   (21 May 2016 | 1423 points | Comments)

5. Moving Forward on Basic Income
   (31 May 2016 | 1330 points | Comments)

6. Apple Stole My Music
   (5 May 2016 | 1259 points | Comments)

7. All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
   (27 May 2016 | 1167 points | Comments)

8. Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
   (12 May 2016 | 1083 points | Comments)

9. WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
   (2 May 2016 | 972 points | Comments)

10. Did I just win?
    (13 May 2016 | 950 points | Comments)

11. A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
    (12 May 2016 | 889 points | Comments)

12. The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It
    (11 May 2016 | 868 points | Comments)

13. Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
    (18 May 2016 | 823 points | Comments)

14. SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch
    (6 May 2016 | 814 points | Comments)

15. A Farewell to FRP
    (10 May 2016 | 771 points | Comments)

16. E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
    (24 May 2016 | 763 points | Comments)

17. The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
    (3 May 2016 | 756 points | Comments)

18. WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
    (16 May 2016 | 755 points | Comments)

19. TTIP Leaks
    (2 May 2016 | 752 points | Comments)

20. Pastejacking
    (24 May 2016 | 722 points | Comments)

21. My time with Rails is up
    (22 May 2016 | 716 points | Comments)

22. Save Firefox
    (11 May 2016 | 702 points | Comments)

23. Chrome removes Backspace to go back
    (19 May 2016 | 690 points | Comments)

24. Electron 1.0 is here
    (11 May 2016 | 679 points | Comments)

25. Crying
    (27 May 2016 | 672 points | Comments)

26. Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision
    (6 May 2016 | 653 points | Comments)

27. Artem vs. Predator
    (12 May 2016 | 651 points | Comments)

28. A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
    (3 May 2016 | 641 points | Comments)

29. Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
    (2 May 2016 | 639 points | Comments)

30. Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
    (4 May 2016 | 636 points | Comments)

31. Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
    (18 May 2016 | 631 points | Comments)

32. Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
    (17 May 2016 | 606 points | Comments)

33. Reason: A new interface to OCaml
    (17 May 2016 | 603 points | Comments)

34. Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
    (19 May 2016 | 592 points | Comments)

35. Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
    (2 May 2016 | 584 points | Comments)

36. Google Home
    (18 May 2016 | 577 points | Comments)

37. Alan Kay's reading list
    (30 May 2016 | 575 points | Comments)

38. Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
    (14 May 2016 | 573 points | Comments)

39. Inside Palantir
    (6 May 2016 | 569 points | Comments)

40. Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand
    (25 May 2016 | 566 points | Comments)

41. OxyContin's 12-hour problem
    (7 May 2016 | 565 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
    (2 May 2016 | 553 points | Comments)

43. New GNU Emacs website
    (8 May 2016 | 547 points | Comments)

44. Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
    (18 May 2016 | 530 points | Comments)

45. “We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
    (9 May 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

46. PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
    (9 May 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

47. React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
    (26 May 2016 | 521 points | Comments)

48. A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
    (14 May 2016 | 517 points | Comments)

49. JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
    (17 May 2016 | 509 points | Comments)

50. CryEngine out on GitHub
    (24 May 2016 | 506 points | Comments)

51. Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
    (25 May 2016 | 501 points | Comments)

52. Blocklist of all Facebook domains
    (28 May 2016 | 499 points | Comments)

53. The void left by the parallel port
    (5 May 2016 | 496 points | Comments)

54. Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area
    (12 May 2016 | 494 points | Comments)

55. 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
    (5 May 2016 | 493 points | Comments)

56. IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
    (23 May 2016 | 481 points | Comments)

57. The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
    (31 May 2016 | 479 points | Comments)

58. Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick
    (3 May 2016 | 478 points | Comments)

59. Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
    (4 May 2016 | 478 points | Comments)

60. Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview
    (23 May 2016 | 474 points | Comments)

61. HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps
    (31 May 2016 | 473 points | Comments)

62. Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
    (25 May 2016 | 472 points | Comments)

63. The Startup Zeitgeist
    (4 May 2016 | 469 points | Comments)

64. Scala Native
    (11 May 2016 | 466 points | Comments)

65. What Happened to Google Maps?
    (1 May 2016 | 464 points | Comments)

66. Uvloop: Fast Python networking
    (4 May 2016 | 456 points | Comments)

67. Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
    (27 May 2016 | 452 points | Comments)

68. Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
    (5 May 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

69. Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core
    (24 May 2016 | 450 points | Comments)

70. GitLab Container Registry
    (23 May 2016 | 449 points | Comments)

71. High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
    (17 May 2016 | 444 points | Comments)

72. Go best practices, six years in
    (1 May 2016 | 440 points | Comments)

73. A former CIA spy has revealed his key role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela
    (15 May 2016 | 435 points | Comments)

74. Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed
    (11 May 2016 | 432 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
    (26 May 2016 | 429 points | Comments)

76. Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
    (3 May 2016 | 428 points | Comments)

77. Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs
    (24 May 2016 | 428 points | Comments)

78. Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
    (6 May 2016 | 425 points | Comments)

79. Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar
    (23 May 2016 | 425 points | Comments)

80. Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
    (24 May 2016 | 424 points | Comments)

81. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
    (17 May 2016 | 419 points | Comments)

82. HARC
    (11 May 2016 | 415 points | Comments)

83. Japan adding mandatory programming education to all elementary schools
    (24 May 2016 | 415 points | Comments)

84. Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes Pills
    (9 May 2016 | 411 points | Comments)

85. A Facebook Sixth Sense
    (31 May 2016 | 410 points | Comments)

86. That'll do, pig, that'll do
    (13 May 2016 | 409 points | Comments)

87. Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash
    (27 May 2016 | 409 points | Comments)

88. NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series
    (7 May 2016 | 408 points | Comments)

89. Housing in the Bay Area
    (26 May 2016 | 406 points | Comments)

90. I wrote a small piece on planned death
    (4 May 2016 | 405 points | Comments)

91. Our 2016 Open Source Donations
    (7 May 2016 | 403 points | Comments)

92. Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?
    (10 May 2016 | 401 points | Comments)

93. Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
    (18 May 2016 | 401 points | Comments)

94. Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
    (5 May 2016 | 399 points | Comments)

95. SpaceX: “Landing confirmed”
    (6 May 2016 | 398 points | Comments)

96. LinkedIn password leak
    (19 May 2016 | 398 points | Comments)

97. The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Services
    (24 May 2016 | 394 points | Comments)

98. Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
    (24 May 2016 | 394 points | Comments)

99. Why do old statues have such small penises?
    (10 May 2016 | 393 points | Comments)

100. CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
     (16 May 2016 | 393 points | Comments)