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Top of Month - May 2017

1. Get started making music
   (9 May 2017 | 2106 points | Comments)

2. Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
   (13 May 2017 | 1981 points | Comments)

3. CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals
   (2 May 2017 | 1455 points | Comments)

4. A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
   (10 May 2017 | 1450 points | Comments)

5. My Family’s Slave
   (16 May 2017 | 1419 points | Comments)

6. Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
   (12 May 2017 | 1248 points | Comments)

7. Fireflies
   (31 May 2017 | 1243 points | Comments)

8. Wikimedia Foundation spending
   (7 May 2017 | 1054 points | Comments)

9. The largest Git repo
   (24 May 2017 | 1053 points | Comments)

10. Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
    (3 May 2017 | 1015 points | Comments)

11. 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
    (23 May 2017 | 1004 points | Comments)

12. Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
    (20 May 2017 | 969 points | Comments)

13. A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
    (17 May 2017 | 952 points | Comments)

14. Net neutrality is in jeopardy again
    (8 May 2017 | 928 points | Comments)

15. SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold
    (30 May 2017 | 884 points | Comments)

16. Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities
    (4 May 2017 | 883 points | Comments)

17. Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
    (25 May 2017 | 866 points | Comments)

18. A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss a GPL enforcement case
    (12 May 2017 | 853 points | Comments)

19. Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient
    (3 May 2017 | 836 points | Comments)

20. The Horror in the Standard Library
    (5 May 2017 | 830 points | Comments)

21. CockroachDB 1.0
    (10 May 2017 | 811 points | Comments)

22. AI Playbook
    (15 May 2017 | 806 points | Comments)

23. Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
    (23 May 2017 | 775 points | Comments)

24. U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
    (22 May 2017 | 746 points | Comments)

25. Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
    (15 May 2017 | 719 points | Comments)

26. Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?
    (21 May 2017 | 699 points | Comments)

27. Let them paste passwords
    (18 May 2017 | 694 points | Comments)

28. Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
    (8 May 2017 | 692 points | Comments)

29. Solar Roof
    (10 May 2017 | 690 points | Comments)

30. Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
    (29 May 2017 | 685 points | Comments)

31. Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
    (23 May 2017 | 674 points | Comments)

32. Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job
    (13 May 2017 | 662 points | Comments)

33. Getting Started with Headless Chrome
    (1 May 2017 | 657 points | Comments)

34. Little Things I Like to Do with Git
    (24 May 2017 | 656 points | Comments)

35. Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
    (30 May 2017 | 655 points | Comments)

36. How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
    (30 May 2017 | 653 points | Comments)

37. Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
    (16 May 2017 | 652 points | Comments)

38. “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
    (16 May 2017 | 650 points | Comments)

39. How to Sleep
    (28 May 2017 | 649 points | Comments)

40. Get your loved ones off Facebook
    (22 May 2017 | 641 points | Comments)

41. Chelsea Manning released from prison
    (17 May 2017 | 629 points | Comments)

42. CPU Utilization is Wrong
    (9 May 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

43. The Boring Company FAQ
    (17 May 2017 | 624 points | Comments)

44. Not Hotdog App
    (16 May 2017 | 621 points | Comments)

45. Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
    (15 May 2017 | 620 points | Comments)

46. Android now supports Kotlin
    (17 May 2017 | 620 points | Comments)

47. Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
    (3 May 2017 | 619 points | Comments)

48. Kubernetes by Example
    (31 May 2017 | 612 points | Comments)

49. Google.ai
    (17 May 2017 | 611 points | Comments)

50. Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski
    (30 May 2017 | 611 points | Comments)

51. MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud
    (25 May 2017 | 610 points | Comments)

52. Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
    (4 May 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

53. Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
    (6 May 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

54. Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)
    (23 May 2017 | 598 points | Comments)

55. How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
    (22 May 2017 | 597 points | Comments)

56. Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc
    (9 May 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

57. President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
    (9 May 2017 | 594 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
    (1 May 2017 | 589 points | Comments)

59. SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today
    (2 May 2017 | 588 points | Comments)

60. Recovering from Burnout and Depression
    (11 May 2017 | 587 points | Comments)

61. HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
    (22 May 2017 | 574 points | Comments)

62. Beware of Transparent Pixels
    (10 May 2017 | 567 points | Comments)

63. Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
    (16 May 2017 | 566 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore
    (25 May 2017 | 565 points | Comments)

65. Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works
    (26 May 2017 | 564 points | Comments)

66. Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
    (31 May 2017 | 560 points | Comments)

67. Web Developer Security Checklist
    (16 May 2017 | 548 points | Comments)

68. Machine Learning
    (17 May 2017 | 546 points | Comments)

69. One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
    (18 May 2017 | 542 points | Comments)

70. Noun Project – Icons for Everything
    (11 May 2017 | 541 points | Comments)

71. How Stripe teaches employees to code
    (4 May 2017 | 539 points | Comments)

72. Kotlin Is Better
    (17 May 2017 | 538 points | Comments)

73. Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
    (19 May 2017 | 538 points | Comments)

74. The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
    (9 May 2017 | 534 points | Comments)

75. Visual Studio for Mac
    (10 May 2017 | 532 points | Comments)

76. Node v8.0.0 Released
    (30 May 2017 | 531 points | Comments)

77. A Case of Stolen Source Code
    (17 May 2017 | 527 points | Comments)

78. Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi
    (15 May 2017 | 526 points | Comments)

79. Rejection Letter
    (13 May 2017 | 522 points | Comments)

80. Engineering management lessons (2014)
    (20 May 2017 | 517 points | Comments)

81. Introducing Surface Laptop
    (2 May 2017 | 514 points | Comments)

82. Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
    (6 May 2017 | 514 points | Comments)

83. PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
    (18 May 2017 | 507 points | Comments)

84. Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole
    (1 May 2017 | 506 points | Comments)

85. Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
    (26 May 2017 | 506 points | Comments)

86. Build yourself a Linux
    (4 May 2017 | 497 points | Comments)

87. Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
    (11 May 2017 | 492 points | Comments)

88. Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'
    (31 May 2017 | 491 points | Comments)

89. View Counting at Reddit
    (27 May 2017 | 489 points | Comments)

90. JSON Feed
    (17 May 2017 | 486 points | Comments)

91. Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page
    (18 May 2017 | 486 points | Comments)

92. Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
    (12 May 2017 | 483 points | Comments)

93. Escalation of Privilege Advisory
    (1 May 2017 | 482 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
    (3 May 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

95. Robots that learn
    (16 May 2017 | 481 points | Comments)

96. 110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
    (12 May 2017 | 479 points | Comments)

97. NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
    (24 May 2017 | 474 points | Comments)

98. How a 64k intro is made
    (22 May 2017 | 473 points | Comments)

99. Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)
    (2 May 2017 | 471 points | Comments)

100. The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated
     (1 May 2017 | 469 points | Comments)