The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2012

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Plagiarism notes.unwieldy.net · endtwist · 14 May 2012

1.2k pts 311 comments

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Hunting Down My Son's Killer matt.might.net · synacksynack · 29 May 2012

1.1k pts 318 comments

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20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time stevehanov.ca · spiffytech · 29 May 2012

989 pts 147 comments

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Please don't learn to code codinghorror.com · AndrewDucker · 15 May 2012

746 pts 266 comments

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Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright groklaw.net · mbreese · 31 May 2012

735 pts 141 comments

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Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox forums.dropbox.com · dannyr · 1 May 2012

723 pts 348 comments

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Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case groklaw.net · grellas · 23 May 2012

723 pts 165 comments

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Recursive Drawing recursivedrawing.com · nreece · 10 May 2012

694 pts 83 comments

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The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget zenmoments.org · wolfden · 2 May 2012

688 pts 188 comments

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Being deaf davidpeter.me · sarenji · 21 May 2012

676 pts 153 comments

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Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer learncodethehardway.org · twampss · 15 May 2012

670 pts 218 comments

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Please Learn to Code sachagreif.com · sgdesign · 15 May 2012

654 pts 146 comments

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Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship bbc.co.uk · mocko · 25 May 2012

585 pts 166 comments

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GitHub for Windows github.com · sant0sk1 · 21 May 2012

549 pts 236 comments

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The frequent fliers who flew too much latimes.com · ams1 · 6 May 2012

546 pts 222 comments

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Welcome To Life tomscott.com · ryannielsen · 14 May 2012

545 pts 183 comments

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Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip cl.cam.ac.uk · turnersr · 27 May 2012

536 pts 149 comments

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Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests github.com · quellhorst · 11 May 2012

535 pts 267 comments

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Google is making a huge and annoying mistake wilwheaton.typepad.com · ColinWright · 2 May 2012

534 pts 261 comments

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Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen superuser.com · eavc · 1 May 2012

531 pts 64 comments

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My Doctor's Office Asked Me To Lie stallman.org · gulbrandr · 11 May 2012

524 pts 230 comments

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Android Ported to C# blog.xamarin.com · pmjordan · 1 May 2012

516 pts 165 comments

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Please learn to write randsinrepose.com · filament · 16 May 2012

516 pts 117 comments

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CSS arrow please cssarrowplease.com · jimsteinhart · 9 May 2012

515 pts 73 comments

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Judge Alsup learns to code and schools Oracle plus.google.com · vibrunazo · 16 May 2012

494 pts 112 comments

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I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k jzhwu.blogspot.com · rremoncake · 10 May 2012

488 pts 370 comments

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RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS rubymotion.com · acangiano · 3 May 2012

485 pts 240 comments

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Want good programmers? Then pay them. irrlicht3d.org · irrlichthn · 3 May 2012

481 pts 483 comments

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Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays standalone-sysadmin.com · MPSimmons · 22 May 2012

475 pts 143 comments

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The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images robinsloan.com · nextstep · 30 May 2012

474 pts 251 comments

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JQuery knobs anthonyterrien.com · agumonkey · 9 May 2012

472 pts 96 comments

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TED and inequality: The real story tedchris.posterous.com · Duff · 17 May 2012

471 pts 196 comments

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IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA reddit.com · Devko · 11 May 2012

459 pts 191 comments

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Leap: A new gesture based interface for devices leapmotion.com · travisglines · 21 May 2012

458 pts 181 comments

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It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code edweissman.com · jacobr · 17 May 2012

457 pts 231 comments

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Pretty RFC pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com · knowtheory · 16 May 2012

453 pts 72 comments

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How text editing on the iPad should be idownloadblog.com · superchink · 3 May 2012

436 pts 170 comments

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Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed daringfireball.net · markchristian · 8 May 2012

436 pts 156 comments

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Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL news.cnet.com · streeter · 24 May 2012

435 pts 198 comments

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Introducing DuckDuckHack gabrielweinberg.com · bjplink · 1 May 2012

417 pts 72 comments

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Dragon has successfully achieved splashdown bbc.co.uk · jgrahamc · 31 May 2012

405 pts 110 comments

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Light Table is in YCS12 chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 18 May 2012

401 pts 96 comments

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SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow nasa.gov · mkr-hn · 18 May 2012

386 pts 79 comments

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Coda 2 panic.com · idan · 21 May 2012

376 pts 99 comments

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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ 250bpm.com · rumcajz · 10 May 2012

375 pts 202 comments

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SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT) spacex.com · alex1 · 22 May 2012

370 pts 206 comments

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Chromebox google.com · zoowar · 31 May 2012

367 pts 297 comments

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After Facebook fails blogs.law.harvard.edu · angusgr · 24 May 2012

367 pts 202 comments

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The girl with the ANSI tattoo oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk · ocirion · 31 May 2012

367 pts 150 comments

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Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails gmvault.org · zoobert · 7 May 2012

364 pts 147 comments

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What time is it? iprl.wz.cz · joaopfsilva · 1 May 2012

363 pts 80 comments

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Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes creativeapplications.net · cageface · 11 May 2012

363 pts 76 comments

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Dress code: blue tie and male elektronista.dk · chrismealy · 12 May 2012

353 pts 141 comments

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MIT and Harvard announce edX web.mit.edu · tchalla · 2 May 2012

351 pts 130 comments

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A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi diegobasch.com · nachopg · 3 May 2012

350 pts 110 comments

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Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions ma.tum.de · fpp · 9 May 2012

350 pts 84 comments

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Google open sources key piece of Street View technology google-opensource.blogspot.com · mierle · 1 May 2012

350 pts 51 comments

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I sued a telemarketer and got $4,000 impactdialing.com · michaelrkn · 25 May 2012

346 pts 145 comments

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The future is specific chris-granger.com · olauzon · 22 May 2012

346 pts 135 comments

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The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon blogmaverick.com · dwynings · 14 May 2012

339 pts 292 comments