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Top of Month - May 2020

1. Bye, Amazon
   (4 May 2020 | 3816 points | Comments)

2. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
   (12 May 2020 | 2953 points | Comments)

3. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
   (30 May 2020 | 2856 points | Comments)

4. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
   (31 May 2020 | 2634 points | Comments)

5. Deno 1.0
   (13 May 2020 | 2081 points | Comments)

6. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
   (22 May 2020 | 2031 points | Comments)

7. The Day AppGet Died
   (27 May 2020 | 1930 points | Comments)

8. Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
   (13 May 2020 | 1915 points | Comments)

9. Zoom Acquires Keybase
   (7 May 2020 | 1879 points | Comments)

10. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
    (18 May 2020 | 1783 points | Comments)

11. GitHub Codespaces
    (6 May 2020 | 1769 points | Comments)

12. A first look at Unreal Engine 5
    (13 May 2020 | 1734 points | Comments)

13. AWS services explained in one line each
    (26 May 2020 | 1668 points | Comments)

14. Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
    (23 May 2020 | 1543 points | Comments)

15. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
    (4 May 2020 | 1527 points | Comments)

16. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
    (18 May 2020 | 1525 points | Comments)

17. ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
    (1 May 2020 | 1464 points | Comments)

18. We Chat, They Watch
    (8 May 2020 | 1417 points | Comments)

19. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
    (18 May 2020 | 1393 points | Comments)

20. Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
    (27 May 2020 | 1375 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
    (13 May 2020 | 1336 points | Comments)

22. Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
    (20 May 2020 | 1294 points | Comments)

23. Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
    (18 May 2020 | 1239 points | Comments)

24. New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
    (19 May 2020 | 1237 points | Comments)

25. Medium-hard SQL interview questions
    (2 May 2020 | 1230 points | Comments)

26. Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
    (26 May 2020 | 1227 points | Comments)

27. We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
    (11 May 2020 | 1224 points | Comments)

28. If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
    (16 May 2020 | 1186 points | Comments)

29. Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
    (23 May 2020 | 1178 points | Comments)

30. Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
    (27 May 2020 | 1120 points | Comments)

31. No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
    (6 May 2020 | 1108 points | Comments)

32. Tools for Better Thinking
    (28 May 2020 | 1092 points | Comments)

33. Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
    (27 May 2020 | 1087 points | Comments)

34. Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
    (6 May 2020 | 1084 points | Comments)

35. 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
    (13 May 2020 | 1077 points | Comments)

36. Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
    (30 May 2020 | 1076 points | Comments)

37. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
    (18 May 2020 | 1063 points | Comments)

38. Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
    (29 May 2020 | 1061 points | Comments)

39. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
    (13 May 2020 | 1053 points | Comments)

40. Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
    (9 May 2020 | 1044 points | Comments)

41. Notion for everyone
    (19 May 2020 | 1044 points | Comments)

42. Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
    (13 May 2020 | 1035 points | Comments)

43. Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
    (25 May 2020 | 1030 points | Comments)

44. AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
    (28 May 2020 | 1011 points | Comments)

45. Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
    (22 May 2020 | 1006 points | Comments)

46. EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
    (20 May 2020 | 993 points | Comments)

47. A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
    (15 May 2020 | 975 points | Comments)

48. Do not Draw a Penis
    (14 May 2020 | 969 points | Comments)

49. Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
    (12 May 2020 | 961 points | Comments)

50. Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
    (15 May 2020 | 957 points | Comments)

51. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
    (13 May 2020 | 956 points | Comments)

52. New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
    (18 May 2020 | 925 points | Comments)

53. X
    (21 May 2020 | 896 points | Comments)

54. Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
    (14 May 2020 | 871 points | Comments)

55. A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
    (12 May 2020 | 835 points | Comments)

56. I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
    (25 May 2020 | 827 points | Comments)

57. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
    (6 May 2020 | 824 points | Comments)

58. A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
    (31 May 2020 | 820 points | Comments)

59. It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
    (17 May 2020 | 798 points | Comments)

60. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
    (5 May 2020 | 791 points | Comments)

61. Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
    (23 May 2020 | 791 points | Comments)

62. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
    (1 May 2020 | 785 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
    (15 May 2020 | 780 points | Comments)

64. Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
    (6 May 2020 | 779 points | Comments)

65. Show HN: Caddy 2
    (4 May 2020 | 778 points | Comments)

66. Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
    (10 May 2020 | 774 points | Comments)

67. A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
    (19 May 2020 | 771 points | Comments)

68. Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics
    (6 May 2020 | 770 points | Comments)

69. Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
    (2 May 2020 | 762 points | Comments)

70. Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
    (29 May 2020 | 755 points | Comments)

71. Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
    (20 May 2020 | 747 points | Comments)

72. John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
    (18 May 2020 | 744 points | Comments)

73. Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data
    (19 May 2020 | 736 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
    (8 May 2020 | 732 points | Comments)

75. Siri, What Time Is It in London?
    (22 May 2020 | 728 points | Comments)

76. Htmx – high power tools for HTML
    (27 May 2020 | 728 points | Comments)

77. New 13-inch MacBook Pro
    (4 May 2020 | 726 points | Comments)

78. Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
    (7 May 2020 | 726 points | Comments)

79. Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
    (23 May 2020 | 723 points | Comments)

80. Second-Guessing the Modern Web
    (10 May 2020 | 721 points | Comments)

81. Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models
    (9 May 2020 | 719 points | Comments)

82. React Native for Windows and Mac
    (12 May 2020 | 715 points | Comments)

83. Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
    (27 May 2020 | 707 points | Comments)

84. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
    (19 May 2020 | 706 points | Comments)

85. MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
    (10 May 2020 | 703 points | Comments)

86. Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
    (4 May 2020 | 701 points | Comments)

87. Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
    (28 May 2020 | 696 points | Comments)

88. Product Marketing for Engineers
    (24 May 2020 | 688 points | Comments)

89. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
    (26 May 2020 | 685 points | Comments)

90. Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth
    (11 May 2020 | 677 points | Comments)

91. The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)
    (28 May 2020 | 677 points | Comments)

92. US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
    (17 May 2020 | 676 points | Comments)

93. Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
    (10 May 2020 | 673 points | Comments)

94. Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
    (20 May 2020 | 669 points | Comments)

95. Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
    (3 May 2020 | 666 points | Comments)

96. Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
    (13 May 2020 | 659 points | Comments)

97. Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
    (8 May 2020 | 655 points | Comments)

98. I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next
    (26 May 2020 | 655 points | Comments)

99. Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
    (4 May 2020 | 652 points | Comments)

100. It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
     (17 May 2020 | 650 points | Comments)