The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2014
We track 704 stories from May 2014, averaging 205 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 22 stories. Together they drew 65,904 comments, 94 per story on average.
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Don't mess with Newegg
blog.newegg.com · keerthiko · 23 May 2014
1.5k pts
190 comments
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2
2048, success and me
gabrielecirulli.com · terabytest · 6 May 2014
925 pts
222 comments
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4
Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
theguardian.com · cottonseed · 20 May 2014
806 pts
226 comments
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5
The future of Unreal Tournament begins today
unrealengine.com · OlivierLi · 8 May 2014
803 pts
141 comments
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6
TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
truecrypt.sourceforge.net · dewey · 28 May 2014
797 pts
382 comments
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7
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
plus.google.com · adrianmsmith · 15 May 2014
782 pts
234 comments
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8
Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
cringely.com · mortimerwax · 20 May 2014
781 pts
382 comments
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9
The next version of DuckDuckGo
next.duckduckgo.com · vgnanand · 5 May 2014
738 pts
322 comments
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10
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
washingtonpost.com · jkupferman · 15 May 2014
679 pts
331 comments
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11
Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
willyreport.wordpress.com · pmorici · 25 May 2014
648 pts
131 comments
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13
Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome
jlongster.com · jlongster · 13 May 2014
632 pts
219 comments
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14
Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement
syncthing.net · ushi · 12 May 2014
623 pts
184 comments
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18
Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
rappers.mdaniels.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com · sinned · 4 May 2014
600 pts
267 comments
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19
OS X Command Line Utilities
mitchchn.me · brianwillis · 15 May 2014
567 pts
235 comments
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20
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
nymag.com · danielpal · 7 May 2014
566 pts
141 comments
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23
An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
blog.paralleluniverse.co · pron · 1 May 2014
553 pts
396 comments
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25
Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
googleblog.blogspot.com · cloudwalking · 28 May 2014
540 pts
307 comments
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26
Scribd and Quora considered harmful
somebits.com · ctoth · 25 May 2014
511 pts
136 comments
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27
Google is Breaking the Internet
jeremypalmer.com · kposehn · 18 May 2014
503 pts
297 comments
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29
AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
blog.mozilla.org · harshal · 14 May 2014
492 pts
258 comments
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31
Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
plentyoffish.wordpress.com · markuspof · 12 May 2014
483 pts
131 comments
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32
Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?
stackoverflow.com · gioele · 12 May 2014
468 pts
85 comments
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33
We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
spacecollege.org · jwise0 · 29 May 2014
466 pts
62 comments
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34
FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM
fsf.org · mikegerwitz · 15 May 2014
459 pts
276 comments
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35
It's Different for Girls
heidiroizen.tumblr.com · tkorotkikh · 2 May 2014
427 pts
379 comments
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36
Observations of an Internet Middleman
blog.level3.com · staticsafe · 5 May 2014
424 pts
175 comments
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37
Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
washingtonpost.com · arunpjohny · 15 May 2014
424 pts
131 comments
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38
How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
fivethirtyeight.com · ca98am79 · 29 May 2014
421 pts
145 comments
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39
PDFium: Chrome’s PDF rendering engine is now open-source
code.google.com · andybons · 22 May 2014
421 pts
100 comments
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40
Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
hacks.mozilla.org · rnyman · 7 May 2014
420 pts
114 comments
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41
‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead
swissinfo.ch · lox · 13 May 2014
418 pts
67 comments
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42
Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
computer.org · r4um · 4 May 2014
417 pts
86 comments
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44
Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
feld.com · henryaym · 7 May 2014
410 pts
193 comments
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45
Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
nytimes.com · ovechtrick · 22 May 2014
408 pts
246 comments
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48
YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
variety.com · Ocerge · 18 May 2014
403 pts
235 comments
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49
State of MetaFilter
metatalk.metafilter.com · danso · 19 May 2014
400 pts
176 comments
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50
Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
septerr · 23 May 2014
395 pts
201 comments
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51
How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn
shubh.am · sounds · 17 May 2014
392 pts
143 comments
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52
For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome
projects.aljazeera.com · mr_tyzic · 29 May 2014
391 pts
115 comments
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53
The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
blog.makandra.com · triskweline · 21 May 2014
389 pts
61 comments
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54
Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors
liftlabsdesign.com · mhb · 15 May 2014
387 pts
89 comments
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55
Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API
quilljs.com · jhchen · 8 May 2014
387 pts
60 comments
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57
How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux
linuxvoice.com · mksaunders · 9 May 2014
382 pts
197 comments
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59
Google's XSS game
xss-game.appspot.com · morphics · 29 May 2014
376 pts
156 comments
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60
What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make?
quora.com · asianexpress · 19 May 2014
376 pts
147 comments
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