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Top of Month - May 2018

1. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
   (7 May 2018 | 2074 points | Comments)

2. Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
   (8 May 2018 | 1875 points | Comments)

3. US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
   (16 May 2018 | 1630 points | Comments)

4. The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
   (18 May 2018 | 1493 points | Comments)

5. Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
   (30 May 2018 | 1361 points | Comments)

6. The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
   (26 May 2018 | 1331 points | Comments)

7. Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
   (24 May 2018 | 1314 points | Comments)

8. Google YOLO clickjacking
   (11 May 2018 | 1304 points | Comments)

9. Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
   (1 May 2018 | 1224 points | Comments)

10. LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
    (17 May 2018 | 1209 points | Comments)

11. Completely Silent Computer
    (15 May 2018 | 1087 points | Comments)

12. John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
    (14 May 2018 | 1075 points | Comments)

13. AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
    (2 May 2018 | 999 points | Comments)

14. AI winter is well on its way
    (30 May 2018 | 993 points | Comments)

15. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
    (18 May 2018 | 986 points | Comments)

16. Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
    (23 May 2018 | 973 points | Comments)

17. Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
    (10 May 2018 | 915 points | Comments)

18. Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
    (4 May 2018 | 910 points | Comments)

19. Safe ways to do things in bash
    (13 May 2018 | 892 points | Comments)

20. I've spent the last two years building a new email client
    (2 May 2018 | 874 points | Comments)

21. GDPR: Don't Panic
    (18 May 2018 | 863 points | Comments)

22. Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
    (29 May 2018 | 805 points | Comments)

23. Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
    (18 May 2018 | 784 points | Comments)

24. UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
    (29 May 2018 | 757 points | Comments)

25. GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
    (25 May 2018 | 755 points | Comments)

26. Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
    (16 May 2018 | 754 points | Comments)

27. You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
    (1 May 2018 | 751 points | Comments)

28. A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
    (19 May 2018 | 748 points | Comments)

29. Subscription Hell
    (6 May 2018 | 745 points | Comments)

30. De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
    (29 May 2018 | 733 points | Comments)

31. EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME
    (14 May 2018 | 718 points | Comments)

32. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
    (2 May 2018 | 714 points | Comments)

33. 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
    (21 May 2018 | 709 points | Comments)

34. Too Clever by Half
    (16 May 2018 | 704 points | Comments)

35. Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
    (10 May 2018 | 691 points | Comments)

36. Make front end shit again
    (13 May 2018 | 681 points | Comments)

37. GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
    (13 May 2018 | 668 points | Comments)

38. Python startup time: milliseconds matter
    (2 May 2018 | 662 points | Comments)

39. Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
    (3 May 2018 | 661 points | Comments)

40. Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
    (24 May 2018 | 650 points | Comments)

41. What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
    (16 May 2018 | 645 points | Comments)

42. Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
    (11 May 2018 | 640 points | Comments)

43. Gnome has moved to GitLab
    (31 May 2018 | 640 points | Comments)

44. Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
    (6 May 2018 | 638 points | Comments)

45. ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
    (10 May 2018 | 634 points | Comments)

46. NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
    (4 May 2018 | 633 points | Comments)

47. How a domain registrar can kill your business
    (16 May 2018 | 633 points | Comments)

48. An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
    (18 May 2018 | 626 points | Comments)

49. Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
    (23 May 2018 | 617 points | Comments)

50. Facebook announces Clear History feature
    (1 May 2018 | 608 points | Comments)

51. $36k Google App Engine RCE
    (21 May 2018 | 602 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
    (1 May 2018 | 587 points | Comments)

53. I put all my personal data on eBay
    (28 May 2018 | 587 points | Comments)

54. You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
    (8 May 2018 | 585 points | Comments)

55. Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home
    (11 May 2018 | 583 points | Comments)

56. Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
    (28 May 2018 | 581 points | Comments)

57. Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
    (2 May 2018 | 575 points | Comments)

58. Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
    (16 May 2018 | 572 points | Comments)

59. Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
    (1 May 2018 | 568 points | Comments)

60. I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
    (22 May 2018 | 563 points | Comments)

61. The rise of the pointless job
    (4 May 2018 | 560 points | Comments)

62. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
    (4 May 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

63. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
    (16 May 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

64. How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit
    (19 May 2018 | 558 points | Comments)

65. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
    (22 May 2018 | 555 points | Comments)

66. Introducing Git protocol version 2
    (18 May 2018 | 547 points | Comments)

67. Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
    (3 May 2018 | 544 points | Comments)

68. iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
    (8 May 2018 | 544 points | Comments)

69. Getting Google to ban our entire company
    (21 May 2018 | 538 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
    (23 May 2018 | 534 points | Comments)

71. Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
    (15 May 2018 | 529 points | Comments)

72. The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
    (7 May 2018 | 519 points | Comments)

73. Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?
    (11 May 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

74. Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials
    (12 May 2018 | 507 points | Comments)

75. Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
    (10 May 2018 | 502 points | Comments)

76. Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
    (20 May 2018 | 502 points | Comments)

77. Rust 1.26 released
    (10 May 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

78. Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage
    (30 May 2018 | 492 points | Comments)

79. Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript
    (23 May 2018 | 483 points | Comments)

80. De-Googling my phone
    (3 May 2018 | 481 points | Comments)

81. The Power of Prolog
    (21 May 2018 | 480 points | Comments)

82. Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
    (1 May 2018 | 478 points | Comments)

83. Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
    (7 May 2018 | 477 points | Comments)

84. The Bill Gates Line
    (23 May 2018 | 477 points | Comments)

85. C Is Not a Low-Level Language
    (1 May 2018 | 472 points | Comments)

86. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation
    (19 May 2018 | 472 points | Comments)

87. What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)
    (9 May 2018 | 471 points | Comments)

88. Python’s For - Else
    (27 May 2018 | 469 points | Comments)

89. Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and title if you're hooked
    (29 May 2018 | 469 points | Comments)

90. Shell Style Guide
    (15 May 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

91. I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
    (29 May 2018 | 467 points | Comments)

92. GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
    (26 May 2018 | 466 points | Comments)

93. Solving dynamic programming interview problems
    (18 May 2018 | 461 points | Comments)

94. Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
    (16 May 2018 | 458 points | Comments)

95. The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
    (22 May 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

96. Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
    (23 May 2018 | 457 points | Comments)

97. Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story
    (18 May 2018 | 455 points | Comments)

98. I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
    (14 May 2018 | 451 points | Comments)

99. HTTP headers we don't want
    (15 May 2018 | 451 points | Comments)

100. Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext
     (17 May 2018 | 451 points | Comments)