The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2014

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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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2048, success and me gabrielecirulli.com · terabytest · 6 May 2014

925 pts 222 comments

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Atom Is Now Open Source blog.atom.io · jordn · 6 May 2014

914 pts 296 comments

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Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit theguardian.com · cottonseed · 20 May 2014

806 pts 226 comments

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The future of Unreal Tournament begins today unrealengine.com · OlivierLi · 8 May 2014

803 pts 141 comments

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TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? truecrypt.sourceforge.net · dewey · 28 May 2014

797 pts 382 comments

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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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Level3 is without peer, now what to do? cringely.com · mortimerwax · 20 May 2014

781 pts 382 comments

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The next version of DuckDuckGo next.duckduckgo.com · vgnanand · 5 May 2014

738 pts 322 comments

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FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet washingtonpost.com · jkupferman · 15 May 2014

679 pts 331 comments

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Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox willyreport.wordpress.com · pmorici · 25 May 2014

648 pts 131 comments

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Using the wrong dictionary jsomers.net · jsomers · 20 May 2014

635 pts 138 comments

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Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome jlongster.com · jlongster · 13 May 2014

632 pts 219 comments

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Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement syncthing.net · ushi · 12 May 2014

623 pts 184 comments

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New DuckDuckGo design duckduckgo.com · ashishk · 20 May 2014

614 pts 214 comments

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Sistine Chapel vatican.va · z0a · 30 May 2014

608 pts 235 comments

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All of Bach allofbach.com · acheron · 9 May 2014

607 pts 148 comments

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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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OS X Command Line Utilities mitchchn.me · brianwillis · 15 May 2014

567 pts 235 comments

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The Day I Started Lying to Ruth nymag.com · danielpal · 7 May 2014

566 pts 141 comments

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? jader201 · 2 May 2014

559 pts 365 comments

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Tell HN: Call your mom DanielBMarkham · 11 May 2014

555 pts 110 comments

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An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1 blog.paralleluniverse.co · pron · 1 May 2014

553 pts 396 comments

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Burying the URL allenpike.com · alxndr · 1 May 2014

553 pts 368 comments

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Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle googleblog.blogspot.com · cloudwalking · 28 May 2014

540 pts 307 comments

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Scribd and Quora considered harmful somebits.com · ctoth · 25 May 2014

511 pts 136 comments

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Google is Breaking the Internet jeremypalmer.com · kposehn · 18 May 2014

503 pts 297 comments

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Introducing Socket.io 1.0 socket.io · rafaelc · 28 May 2014

498 pts 75 comments

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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage blog.mozilla.org · harshal · 14 May 2014

492 pts 258 comments

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Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT webkit.org · panic · 13 May 2014

491 pts 96 comments

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Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days plentyoffish.wordpress.com · markuspof · 12 May 2014

483 pts 131 comments

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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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We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft spacecollege.org · jwise0 · 29 May 2014

466 pts 62 comments

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FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM fsf.org · mikegerwitz · 15 May 2014

459 pts 276 comments

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It's Different for Girls heidiroizen.tumblr.com · tkorotkikh · 2 May 2014

427 pts 379 comments

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Observations of an Internet Middleman blog.level3.com · staticsafe · 5 May 2014

424 pts 175 comments

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Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial washingtonpost.com · arunpjohny · 15 May 2014

424 pts 131 comments

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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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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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Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys hacks.mozilla.org · rnyman · 7 May 2014

420 pts 114 comments

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‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead swissinfo.ch · lox · 13 May 2014

418 pts 67 comments

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Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award computer.org · r4um · 4 May 2014

417 pts 86 comments

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Maze Tree bl.ocks.org · yaph · 14 May 2014

414 pts 38 comments

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Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane feld.com · henryaym · 7 May 2014

410 pts 193 comments

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Is It Better to Rent or Buy? nytimes.com · ovechtrick · 22 May 2014

408 pts 246 comments

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Git 2.0 lkml.iu.edu · pantalaimon · 29 May 2014

405 pts 137 comments

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Common Python Mistakes toptal.com · djug · 8 May 2014

404 pts 141 comments

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YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion? variety.com · Ocerge · 18 May 2014

403 pts 235 comments

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State of MetaFilter metatalk.metafilter.com · danso · 19 May 2014

400 pts 176 comments

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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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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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For Hire: Dedicated Young Man With Down Syndrome projects.aljazeera.com · mr_tyzic · 29 May 2014

391 pts 115 comments

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The greatest bug I never fixed (2010) blog.makandra.com · triskweline · 21 May 2014

389 pts 61 comments

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Tremor-cancelling spoon for Parkinson's tremors liftlabsdesign.com · mhb · 15 May 2014

387 pts 89 comments

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Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API quilljs.com · jhchen · 8 May 2014

387 pts 60 comments

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iMessage purgatory adampash.com · mortenjorck · 13 May 2014

386 pts 170 comments

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How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux linuxvoice.com · mksaunders · 9 May 2014

382 pts 197 comments

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Python 3 can revive Python medium.com · coldtea · 26 May 2014

379 pts 234 comments

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Google's XSS game xss-game.appspot.com · morphics · 29 May 2014

376 pts 156 comments

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What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make? quora.com · asianexpress · 19 May 2014

376 pts 147 comments