The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2011
We track 496 stories from May 2011, averaging 199 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 18 stories. Together they drew 35,024 comments, 71 per story on average.
1
Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
bellard.org · neopanz · 17 May 2011
1.8k pts
239 comments
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2
TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
acko.net · pimeys · 18 May 2011
1.1k pts
200 comments
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4
Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
techcrunch.com · linuxnow · 12 May 2011
779 pts
142 comments
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5
This Guy Has My MacBook
thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com · bkaid · 31 May 2011
741 pts
411 comments
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6
Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
dsc.discovery.com · goldins · 13 May 2011
667 pts
207 comments
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7
How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
davegooden.com · cabinguy · 31 May 2011
654 pts
186 comments
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8
Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad
tweetlibrary.com · Osiris · 2 May 2011
638 pts
101 comments
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10
John Resig joins the Khan Academy
ejohn.org · jasonrr · 3 May 2011
585 pts
73 comments
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11
LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things
throwingfire.com · thirsteh · 8 May 2011
559 pts
82 comments
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12
Cool, but obscure Unix tools
kkovacs.eu · larelli · 20 May 2011
534 pts
120 comments
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13
You can increase your intelligence
scientificamerican.com · bootload · 19 May 2011
519 pts
132 comments
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14
Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25
geek.com · bluesmoon · 5 May 2011
518 pts
91 comments
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15
Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves
singularityhub.com · kkleiner · 12 May 2011
486 pts
205 comments
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16
My daughter was first sued in the womb
ftrain.com · henning · 16 May 2011
477 pts
67 comments
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17
Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure
newsroom.intel.com · brewski · 4 May 2011
470 pts
101 comments
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18
"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday
edweissman.com · edw519 · 19 May 2011
467 pts
62 comments
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19
Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
googlecode.blogspot.com · bauchidgw · 27 May 2011
463 pts
180 comments
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23
Loren wants to work at Airbnb
lorenburton.com · guynamedloren · 30 May 2011
423 pts
105 comments
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24
Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion
online.wsj.com · riordan · 10 May 2011
421 pts
271 comments
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25
The Ballmer Days Are Over
brooksreview.net · showngo · 12 May 2011
420 pts
212 comments
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26
Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins
smashingmagazine.com · cwan · 5 May 2011
416 pts
175 comments
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27
Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
cnn.com · marcinw · 23 May 2011
413 pts
412 comments
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29
Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody
visualmess.com · joelg87 · 1 May 2011
410 pts
56 comments
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30
In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley
quora.com · thinkcomp · 11 May 2011
406 pts
208 comments
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31
HTC sides with consumers: No more locked bootloaders in Android phones
facebook.com · drivebyacct2 · 27 May 2011
402 pts
77 comments
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32
Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA
nsa.gov · hyyypr · 19 May 2011
396 pts
97 comments
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33
Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly
philfreo.com · philfreo · 14 May 2011
395 pts
82 comments
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34
FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue
aclu.org · trotsky · 11 May 2011
395 pts
72 comments
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36
“Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It
blog.fogcreek.com · patio11 · 26 May 2011
393 pts
88 comments
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37
You don't get shit you don't ask for
humbledmba.com · jaf12duke · 31 May 2011
387 pts
40 comments
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38
Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code
muddylemon.com · muddylemon · 28 May 2011
380 pts
166 comments
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39
DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on
lockshot.wordpress.com · akavlie · 5 May 2011
368 pts
75 comments
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41
Stallman's Dystopia
blog.vivekhaldar.com · gandalfgeek · 20 May 2011
347 pts
135 comments
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43
The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
blogs.hbr.org · yarapavan · 25 May 2011
346 pts
110 comments
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44
Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do
f1fanatic.co.uk · Arjuna · 19 May 2011
345 pts
154 comments
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45
What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard
spinellis.gr · llimllib · 31 May 2011
342 pts
81 comments
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46
Vico Editor (Mac text editor)
vicoapp.com · tortilla · 1 May 2011
328 pts
136 comments
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47
Let’s mug a startup founder
thinkvitamin.com · pdelgallego · 10 May 2011
326 pts
76 comments
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48
It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
markmaunder.com · mmaunder · 27 May 2011
325 pts
173 comments
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49
Mono Developers start their own company
tirania.org · jstedfast · 16 May 2011
325 pts
80 comments
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50
FBI Tracking Device Teardown
ifixit.com · mikecarlton · 9 May 2011
325 pts
79 comments
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52
Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly
article.gmane.org · BrandonM · 26 May 2011
323 pts
55 comments
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53
What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?
nymag.com · gamble · 9 May 2011
321 pts
207 comments
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55
Chrome has transcended version numbers
codinghorror.com · AndrewDucker · 23 May 2011
318 pts
86 comments
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56
Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
pages.cs.wisc.edu · bootload · 4 May 2011
316 pts
97 comments
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57
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
norvig.com · EdiX · 27 May 2011
313 pts
107 comments
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58
G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed
g8internet.com · keane · 24 May 2011
309 pts
98 comments
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60
Going Paper-Free for $220
stevelosh.com · stevelosh · 26 May 2011
302 pts
125 comments
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