The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2010

1

A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users. azarask.in · aikoto · 25 May 2010

491 pts 114 comments

2

_why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius smashingmagazine.com · aaronbrethorst · 15 May 2010

382 pts 179 comments

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I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me. erikpukinskis · 11 May 2010

362 pts 247 comments

4

Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards" techcrunch.com · whyleym · 13 May 2010

360 pts 112 comments

5

Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks daringfireball.net · biafra · 28 May 2010

357 pts 113 comments

6

Google Prediction API code.google.com · pelle · 19 May 2010

355 pts 81 comments

7

Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations eff.org · there · 4 May 2010

340 pts 153 comments

8

Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear nytimes.com · mapleoin · 17 May 2010

325 pts 115 comments

9

Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched reclaimprivacy.org · mjpizz · 17 May 2010

321 pts 59 comments

10

How real-world corruption works reddit.com · ssp · 26 May 2010

316 pts 72 comments

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Scribd in HTML scribd.com · ZeroGravitas · 7 May 2010

315 pts 104 comments

12

Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes. stockcharts.com · mnemonicsloth · 6 May 2010

310 pts 263 comments

13

Perfect email regex finally found fightingforalostcause.net · mildweed · 28 May 2010

310 pts 112 comments

14

Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats eu.techcrunch.com · bjonathan · 5 May 2010

301 pts 61 comments

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Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ techcrunch.com · jasonlbaptiste · 5 May 2010

299 pts 120 comments

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Play PacMan at google.com Now. google.com · mapleoin · 21 May 2010

298 pts 91 comments

17

Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried 37signals.com · starnix17 · 17 May 2010

296 pts 138 comments

18

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us youtube.com · zacharyvoase · 18 May 2010

293 pts 41 comments

19

What To Do With Your Millions paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · abstractbill · 28 May 2010

291 pts 89 comments

20

PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively geek.com · ukdm · 28 May 2010

281 pts 100 comments

21

'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists news.bbc.co.uk · blogimus · 20 May 2010

280 pts 92 comments

22

An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009) nytimes.com · shadowsun7 · 14 May 2010

279 pts 53 comments

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The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8 x264dev.multimedia.cx · DarkShikari · 19 May 2010

275 pts 61 comments

24

What iPads Did To My Family chucksblog.emc.com · mjfern · 7 May 2010

270 pts 122 comments

25

Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory googlecode.blogspot.com · boundlessdreamz · 19 May 2010

268 pts 59 comments

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Google ditches Windows on security concerns ft.com · martian · 31 May 2010

260 pts 152 comments

27

Why are the east of cities usually poorer? thejanuarist.com · spxdcz · 31 May 2010

260 pts 99 comments

28

Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour bsdcan.org · cperciva · 14 May 2010

254 pts 130 comments

29

American Express fails miserably at basic security timetobleed.com · ice799 · 25 May 2010

252 pts 69 comments

30

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative wired.com · pinstriped_dude · 8 May 2010

250 pts 103 comments

31

I've Changed My Mind About The iPad avc.com · px · 27 May 2010

249 pts 163 comments

32

How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable ebiquity.umbc.edu · raganwald · 5 May 2010

249 pts 52 comments

33

China drops Dropbox forums.dropbox.com · kaptain · 10 May 2010

246 pts 103 comments

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Thursday = Thor's day sivers.org · CitizenKane · 7 May 2010

245 pts 185 comments

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YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund ycombinator.posterous.com · pc · 21 May 2010

238 pts 98 comments

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My company: 5 months work from home, one month work in a 5 star hotel blog.cubeofm.com · maxklein · 13 May 2010

236 pts 108 comments

37

Work at a Startup workatastartup.org · pg · 14 May 2010

236 pts 85 comments

38

For loops help - comp.lang.c groups.google.com · awa · 12 May 2010

233 pts 57 comments

39

Opera browser is much faster than a potato youtube.com · jrnkntl · 28 May 2010

226 pts 47 comments

40

Primer (film) en.wikipedia.org · iamwil · 28 May 2010

225 pts 91 comments

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Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers arstechnica.com · ferostar · 21 May 2010

225 pts 56 comments

42

Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested kickstarter.com · JayNeely · 11 May 2010

222 pts 132 comments

43

Ask HN: Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06) snowmaker · 6 May 2010

220 pts 150 comments

44

Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks? schneier.com · billpg · 5 May 2010

215 pts 209 comments

45

Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft techcrunch.com · fusionman · 26 May 2010

215 pts 129 comments

46

Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new. al3x.net · malbiniak · 17 May 2010

213 pts 157 comments

47

Django 1.2 released djangoproject.com · twampss · 17 May 2010

212 pts 46 comments

48

Ask HN: HN Alternatives? jaytee_clone · 20 May 2010

210 pts 88 comments

49

You’re Just the Founder steveblank.com · icey · 20 May 2010

208 pts 61 comments

50

LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times wired.com · edw519 · 18 May 2010

207 pts 91 comments

51

Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function youtube.com · itistoday · 27 May 2010

206 pts 124 comments

52

Solving the Alt-Tab Problem azarask.in · omergertel · 3 May 2010

204 pts 98 comments

53

Gmail has become unusably slow gabrielweinberg.com · taylorwc · 28 May 2010

203 pts 127 comments

54

Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit carsonified.com · giu · 8 May 2010

202 pts 31 comments

55

Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud venturebeat.com · bjonathan · 19 May 2010

201 pts 70 comments

56

Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder kalzumeus.com · patio11 · 14 May 2010

195 pts 162 comments

57

What happens to an unprotected human body in space? imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov · spoon16 · 21 May 2010

195 pts 41 comments

58

I am a junior angel in Silicon Valley. AMA joshu · 18 May 2010

193 pts 227 comments

59

Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation cranialsoup.blogspot.com · barrkel · 8 May 2010

193 pts 112 comments

60

It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux phoronix.com · yigit · 12 May 2010

192 pts 55 comments