The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2011

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Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. bellard.org · neopanz · 17 May 2011

1.8k pts 239 comments

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TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement acko.net · pimeys · 18 May 2011

1.1k pts 200 comments

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Osama bin Laden Is Dead nytimes.com · ssclafani · 2 May 2011

924 pts 430 comments

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Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google techcrunch.com · linuxnow · 12 May 2011

779 pts 142 comments

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This Guy Has My MacBook thisguyhasmymacbook.tumblr.com · bkaid · 31 May 2011

741 pts 411 comments

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Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress dsc.discovery.com · goldins · 13 May 2011

667 pts 207 comments

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How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company davegooden.com · cabinguy · 31 May 2011

654 pts 186 comments

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Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad tweetlibrary.com · Osiris · 2 May 2011

638 pts 101 comments

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The Last Post penmachine.com · gtzi · 4 May 2011

604 pts 61 comments

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John Resig joins the Khan Academy ejohn.org · jasonrr · 3 May 2011

585 pts 73 comments

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LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things throwingfire.com · thirsteh · 8 May 2011

559 pts 82 comments

12

Cool, but obscure Unix tools kkovacs.eu · larelli · 20 May 2011

534 pts 120 comments

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You can increase your intelligence scientificamerican.com · bootload · 19 May 2011

519 pts 132 comments

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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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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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My daughter was first sued in the womb ftrain.com · henning · 16 May 2011

477 pts 67 comments

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Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure newsroom.intel.com · brewski · 4 May 2011

470 pts 101 comments

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"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday edweissman.com · edw519 · 19 May 2011

467 pts 62 comments

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Why should anyone ever use a Google API again? googlecode.blogspot.com · bauchidgw · 27 May 2011

463 pts 180 comments

20

Google Chrome Hacked? vupen.com · vinhboy · 9 May 2011

450 pts 210 comments

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Chromebook google.com · atularora · 11 May 2011

446 pts 307 comments

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Top Programming Fonts hivelogic.com · fogus · 25 May 2011

439 pts 165 comments

23

Loren wants to work at Airbnb lorenburton.com · guynamedloren · 30 May 2011

423 pts 105 comments

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Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion online.wsj.com · riordan · 10 May 2011

421 pts 271 comments

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The Ballmer Days Are Over brooksreview.net · showngo · 12 May 2011

420 pts 212 comments

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Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins smashingmagazine.com · cwan · 5 May 2011

416 pts 175 comments

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Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? cnn.com · marcinw · 23 May 2011

413 pts 412 comments

28

Startups Are Hard blog.jazzychad.net · tlb · 2 May 2011

410 pts 111 comments

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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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In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley quora.com · thinkcomp · 11 May 2011

406 pts 208 comments

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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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Secure your Linux server - HowTo by the NSA nsa.gov · hyyypr · 19 May 2011

396 pts 97 comments

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Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly philfreo.com · philfreo · 14 May 2011

395 pts 82 comments

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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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Was LinkedIn Scammed? nytimes.com · mmastrac · 21 May 2011

393 pts 100 comments

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“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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You don't get shit you don't ask for humbledmba.com · jaf12duke · 31 May 2011

387 pts 40 comments

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Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code muddylemon.com · muddylemon · 28 May 2011

380 pts 166 comments

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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Google humans.txt google.com · Anon84 · 6 May 2011

358 pts 57 comments

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Stallman's Dystopia blog.vivekhaldar.com · gandalfgeek · 20 May 2011

347 pts 135 comments

42

BankSimple: We have cards banksimple.com · timf · 20 May 2011

346 pts 152 comments

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The Only Way to Get Important Things Done blogs.hbr.org · yarapavan · 25 May 2011

346 pts 110 comments

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Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do f1fanatic.co.uk · Arjuna · 19 May 2011

345 pts 154 comments

45

What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard spinellis.gr · llimllib · 31 May 2011

342 pts 81 comments

46

Vico Editor (Mac text editor) vicoapp.com · tortilla · 1 May 2011

328 pts 136 comments

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Let’s mug a startup founder thinkvitamin.com · pdelgallego · 10 May 2011

326 pts 76 comments

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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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Mono Developers start their own company tirania.org · jstedfast · 16 May 2011

325 pts 80 comments

50

FBI Tracking Device Teardown ifixit.com · mikecarlton · 9 May 2011

325 pts 79 comments

51

Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011) whoishiring · 1 May 2011

324 pts 291 comments

52

Author of LuaJIT explains why compilers can't beat hand-coded assembly article.gmane.org · BrandonM · 26 May 2011

323 pts 55 comments

53

What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? nymag.com · gamble · 9 May 2011

321 pts 207 comments

54

JQuery 1.6 released blog.jquery.com · potomak · 3 May 2011

320 pts 41 comments

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Chrome has transcended version numbers codinghorror.com · AndrewDucker · 23 May 2011

318 pts 86 comments

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Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass pages.cs.wisc.edu · bootload · 4 May 2011

316 pts 97 comments

57

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning norvig.com · EdiX · 27 May 2011

313 pts 107 comments

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G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed g8internet.com · keane · 24 May 2011

309 pts 98 comments

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Telescopictext telescopictext.com · fun2have · 15 May 2011

309 pts 65 comments

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Going Paper-Free for $220 stevelosh.com · stevelosh · 26 May 2011

302 pts 125 comments