The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2015

1

Announcing Rust 1.0 blog.rust-lang.org · jhund · 15 May 2015

1.4k pts 306 comments

2

John Nash Has Died nj.com · rcina · 24 May 2015

1.3k pts 249 comments

3

Be Kind boz.com · austenallred · 12 May 2015

1.2k pts 385 comments

4

Tesla Energy teslamotors.com · tga_d · 1 May 2015

1.2k pts 566 comments

5

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub blog.printf.net · luu · 29 May 2015

1k pts 169 comments

6

Postgres gets support for upsert git.postgresql.org · anarazel · 8 May 2015

1k pts 109 comments

7

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks karpathy.github.io · benfrederickson · 21 May 2015

913 pts 207 comments

8

Fractal Lab sub.blue · yesbabyyes · 4 May 2015

900 pts 147 comments

9

Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it ephemeralp2p.durazo.us · losvedir · 12 May 2015

803 pts 165 comments

10

Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation github.com · onestone · 13 May 2015

794 pts 81 comments

11

Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer hello-world.io · coder2222 · 5 May 2015

698 pts 341 comments

12

Solved by Flexbox philipwalton.github.io · oskarth · 22 May 2015

671 pts 123 comments

13

Show HN: Twenty twenty.frenchguys.net · sossles · 14 May 2015

666 pts 167 comments

14

U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court reuters.com · dnewms · 7 May 2015

653 pts 143 comments

15

Talking About Money kalzumeus.com · craigkerstiens · 1 May 2015

650 pts 401 comments

16

B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 nytimes.com · aaronbrethorst · 15 May 2015

647 pts 86 comments

17

Get Your Shit Together getyourshittogether.org · Red_Tarsius · 19 May 2015

635 pts 144 comments

18

Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet eff.org · panarky · 19 May 2015

633 pts 161 comments

19

Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison nytimes.com · uptown · 29 May 2015

623 pts 609 comments

20

Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat quirksmode.org · robin_reala · 26 May 2015

605 pts 505 comments

21

Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN accreditation iem.easydns.com · rrauenza · 21 May 2015

604 pts 219 comments

22

How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime washingtonpost.com · rl3 · 13 May 2015

602 pts 433 comments

23

Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA data.jobsintech.io · negrit · 22 May 2015

582 pts 247 comments

24

Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish unitedstatescourts.org · jayess · 11 May 2015

579 pts 228 comments

25

Grooveshark Shuts Down grooveshark.com · sskates · 1 May 2015

555 pts 270 comments

26

Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh dang · 31 May 2015

553 pts 133 comments

27

Facebook PathPicker facebook.github.io · ben_hall · 7 May 2015

538 pts 162 comments

28

Project Jacquard google.com · yla92 · 29 May 2015

531 pts 153 comments

29

The programming talent myth lwn.net · corbet · 4 May 2015

510 pts 341 comments

30

MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video] youtube.com · neverminder · 29 May 2015

506 pts 206 comments

31

I would have hired Doug, but... liveblog.co · nicolethenerd · 6 May 2015

505 pts 238 comments

32

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla bloomberg.com · adventured · 14 May 2015

503 pts 176 comments

33

Wait, Google Sent Me chrome.google.com · jashkenas · 12 May 2015

502 pts 237 comments

34

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015) _whoishiring · 1 May 2015

501 pts 893 comments

35

Microsoft TouchDevelop github.com · pykello · 14 May 2015

500 pts 71 comments

36

Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com · randomwalker · 23 May 2015

491 pts 288 comments

37

“I'm wiping this repository away” github.com · vishaltelangre · 20 May 2015

485 pts 187 comments

38

Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies? bluedevil2k · 22 May 2015

485 pts 158 comments

39

The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious hackershelf.com · romeoonisim · 28 May 2015

483 pts 98 comments

40

Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem exquisitetweets.com · slg · 31 May 2015

479 pts 204 comments

41

Unhappy Birthday unhappybirthday.com · dalek2point3 · 25 May 2015

479 pts 172 comments

42

Rearchitecting GitHub Pages githubengineering.com · samlambert · 27 May 2015

477 pts 149 comments

43

NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats gizmodo.com · kaa2102 · 7 May 2015

473 pts 86 comments

44

Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died facebook.com · mech4bg · 2 May 2015

468 pts 189 comments

45

Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) npr.org · anacleto · 6 May 2015

462 pts 81 comments

46

PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web pypyjs.org · mithrilskeleton · 6 May 2015

461 pts 134 comments

47

Goodbye, Sourceforge helb.github.io · chris-at · 29 May 2015

459 pts 155 comments

48

Fish shell fishshell.com · Aloha · 18 May 2015

451 pts 182 comments

49

Go in Go talks.golang.org · zdw · 27 May 2015

447 pts 146 comments

50

Jump – Experiences like you're actually there google.com · julianpye · 28 May 2015

445 pts 191 comments

51

Rust for Python Programmers lucumr.pocoo.org · zsiciarz · 27 May 2015

442 pts 143 comments

52

Silk weavesilk.com · cdvonstinkpot · 23 May 2015

442 pts 63 comments

53

A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art dinofarmgames.com · dsil · 12 May 2015

440 pts 191 comments

54

Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy cs-blog.khanacademy.org · pamelafox · 11 May 2015

439 pts 86 comments

55

FTC Officials Back Tesla’s Right to Sell Cars Direct to Consumers techcrunch.com · prostoalex · 12 May 2015

428 pts 207 comments

56

EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US arstechnica.co.uk · de_Selby · 25 May 2015

428 pts 143 comments

57

JavaScript at 20 brendaneich.github.io · kolodny · 15 May 2015

427 pts 315 comments

58

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum businessinsider.com · jhonovich · 8 May 2015

425 pts 309 comments

59

Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions m.bbc.com · ahelwer · 10 May 2015

418 pts 312 comments

60

The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies nickkolenda.com · nkolenda · 6 May 2015

418 pts 81 comments