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Top of Month - May 2019

1. Switch from Chrome to Firefox
   (30 May 2019 | 3287 points | Comments)

2. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
   (1 May 2019 | 2195 points | Comments)

3. Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
   (29 May 2019 | 2093 points | Comments)

4. GitHub Sponsors
   (23 May 2019 | 2082 points | Comments)

5. Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
   (22 May 2019 | 1370 points | Comments)

6. "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
   (31 May 2019 | 1343 points | Comments)

7. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
   (4 May 2019 | 1318 points | Comments)

8. Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
   (30 May 2019 | 1292 points | Comments)

9. Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
   (23 May 2019 | 1276 points | Comments)

10. Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
    (6 May 2019 | 1250 points | Comments)

11. How to do hard things
    (19 May 2019 | 1189 points | Comments)

12. GitHub Package Registry
    (10 May 2019 | 1181 points | Comments)

13. Advanced Data Structures (2017)
    (29 May 2019 | 1176 points | Comments)

14. I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
    (15 May 2019 | 1148 points | Comments)

15. Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
    (31 May 2019 | 1109 points | Comments)

16. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
    (3 May 2019 | 1084 points | Comments)

17. Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
    (31 May 2019 | 1077 points | Comments)

18. DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
    (20 May 2019 | 1067 points | Comments)

19. Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
    (30 May 2019 | 1060 points | Comments)

20. Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
    (7 May 2019 | 1010 points | Comments)

21. Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
    (23 May 2019 | 993 points | Comments)

22. Going Critical
    (14 May 2019 | 989 points | Comments)

23. IT Runs on Java 8
    (10 May 2019 | 964 points | Comments)

24. Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
    (5 May 2019 | 950 points | Comments)

25. WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
    (13 May 2019 | 939 points | Comments)

26. Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
    (7 May 2019 | 936 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
    (13 May 2019 | 927 points | Comments)

28. Can we all stop using Medium now?
    (16 May 2019 | 925 points | Comments)

29. PHP in 2019
    (15 May 2019 | 908 points | Comments)

30. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
    (9 May 2019 | 898 points | Comments)

31. I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
    (21 May 2019 | 892 points | Comments)

32. HTTP headers for the responsible developer
    (8 May 2019 | 887 points | Comments)

33. Go is Google's language, not ours
    (22 May 2019 | 885 points | Comments)

34. Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
    (1 May 2019 | 876 points | Comments)

35. WebGL Fluid Simulation
    (20 May 2019 | 868 points | Comments)

36. ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
    (14 May 2019 | 854 points | Comments)

37. I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
    (3 May 2019 | 817 points | Comments)

38. Leaving Google Fi
    (19 May 2019 | 813 points | Comments)

39. Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)
    (21 May 2019 | 798 points | Comments)

40. How I Run a Company with ADHD
    (12 May 2019 | 784 points | Comments)

41. After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
    (23 May 2019 | 775 points | Comments)

42. I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
    (16 May 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

43. Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study
    (11 May 2019 | 751 points | Comments)

44. The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
    (24 May 2019 | 732 points | Comments)

45. .NET 5
    (6 May 2019 | 730 points | Comments)

46. Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
    (18 May 2019 | 720 points | Comments)

47. The struggles of an open source maintainer
    (17 May 2019 | 719 points | Comments)

48. Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
    (2 May 2019 | 714 points | Comments)

49. A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
    (21 May 2019 | 695 points | Comments)

50. Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
    (29 May 2019 | 686 points | Comments)

51. H.264 is magic (2016)
    (24 May 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

52. Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
    (21 May 2019 | 674 points | Comments)

53. The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
    (7 May 2019 | 670 points | Comments)

54. World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
    (1 May 2019 | 663 points | Comments)

55. AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
    (27 May 2019 | 657 points | Comments)

56. Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
    (7 May 2019 | 654 points | Comments)

57. Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
    (3 May 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

58. I can see your local web servers
    (28 May 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

59. Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
    (14 May 2019 | 650 points | Comments)

60. Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author
    (30 May 2019 | 644 points | Comments)

61. Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
    (16 May 2019 | 634 points | Comments)

62. Git rebase in depth
    (10 May 2019 | 633 points | Comments)

63. A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
    (30 May 2019 | 630 points | Comments)

64. Open source collaborative text editors
    (7 May 2019 | 628 points | Comments)

65. South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
    (18 May 2019 | 627 points | Comments)

66. We Can Do Better Than SQL
    (9 May 2019 | 624 points | Comments)

67. Open source firmware is important for security
    (9 May 2019 | 615 points | Comments)

68. Technical Debt
    (21 May 2019 | 610 points | Comments)

69. Use mmap with care
    (2 May 2019 | 607 points | Comments)

70. Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
    (21 May 2019 | 606 points | Comments)

71. Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
    (9 May 2019 | 604 points | Comments)

72. The Art of Command Line (2015)
    (23 May 2019 | 597 points | Comments)

73. “A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”
    (19 May 2019 | 596 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects
    (8 May 2019 | 595 points | Comments)

75. Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
    (2 May 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

76. Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
    (9 May 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

77. Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
    (6 May 2019 | 585 points | Comments)

78. Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
    (14 May 2019 | 585 points | Comments)

79. Things to use in Python 3
    (15 May 2019 | 581 points | Comments)

80. Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence
    (28 May 2019 | 581 points | Comments)

81. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
    (2 May 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

82. Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks
    (14 May 2019 | 558 points | Comments)

83. All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
    (9 May 2019 | 556 points | Comments)

84. AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
    (14 May 2019 | 556 points | Comments)

85. “Python's batteries are leaking”
    (18 May 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

86. Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
    (6 May 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

87. “It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”
    (20 May 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

88. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)
    (1 May 2019 | 544 points | Comments)

89. Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
    (9 May 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

90. Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion
    (21 May 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

91. Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
    (8 May 2019 | 538 points | Comments)

92. Niki Lauda has died
    (21 May 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

93. Scrum is fragile, not Agile
    (26 May 2019 | 534 points | Comments)

94. Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
    (24 May 2019 | 533 points | Comments)

95. What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
    (7 May 2019 | 531 points | Comments)

96. Firefox 67.0 Released
    (21 May 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

97. How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years
    (30 May 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

98. Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
    (25 May 2019 | 518 points | Comments)

99. Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
    (17 May 2019 | 512 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
     (10 May 2019 | 510 points | Comments)