The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2016
We track 1,046 stories from May 2016, averaging 226 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 67 stories. Together they drew 117,101 comments, 112 per story on average.
1
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour
twitter.com · LukeB_UK · 26 May 2016
1.8k pts
393 comments
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2
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
medium.com · lxm · 20 May 2016
1.6k pts
427 comments
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3
Introducing unlimited private repositories
github.com · fuzionmonkey · 11 May 2016
1.6k pts
636 comments
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4
Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
wiki.gkbrk.com · gkbrk · 21 May 2016
1.4k pts
181 comments
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5
Moving Forward on Basic Income
blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 31 May 2016
1.3k pts
1.4k comments
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6
Apple Stole My Music
blog.vellumatlanta.com · panic · 5 May 2016
1.3k pts
446 comments
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7
All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020
english.eu2016.nl · whazor · 27 May 2016
1.2k pts
133 comments
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8
Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
googleresearch.blogspot.com · cjdulberger · 12 May 2016
1.1k pts
235 comments
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9
WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
theintercept.com · tshtf · 2 May 2016
972 pts
608 comments
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11
A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
bbc.com · ForFreedom · 12 May 2016
889 pts
161 comments
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12
The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It
iquantny.tumblr.com · danso · 11 May 2016
868 pts
177 comments
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13
Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
cloudplatform.googleblog.com · hurrycane · 18 May 2016
823 pts
276 comments
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14
SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch
phys.org · dnetesn · 6 May 2016
814 pts
474 comments
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16
E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display
businesswire.com · jameshart · 24 May 2016
763 pts
257 comments
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17
The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
electrek.co · lxm · 3 May 2016
756 pts
435 comments
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18
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
twitter.com · M4v3R · 16 May 2016
755 pts
109 comments
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22
Chrome removes Backspace to go back
bugs.chromium.org · ivank · 19 May 2016
690 pts
583 comments
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27
A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
bloombergview.com · warrenmar · 3 May 2016
641 pts
809 comments
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28
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
economist.com · shazad · 2 May 2016
639 pts
259 comments
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29
Medical error is third biggest cause of death in the US, experts say
theguardian.com · lemming · 4 May 2016
636 pts
502 comments
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30
Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
fast.com · protomyth · 18 May 2016
631 pts
360 comments
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31
Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
horizon.io · coffeemug · 17 May 2016
606 pts
127 comments
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32
Reason: A new interface to OCaml
facebook.github.io · clayallsopp · 17 May 2016
603 pts
287 comments
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33
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu · itg · 19 May 2016
592 pts
268 comments
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34
Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
nikcub.com · rdl · 2 May 2016
584 pts
248 comments
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36
Alan Kay's reading list
squeakland.org · drjohnson · 30 May 2016
575 pts
168 comments
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37
Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com · randomname2 · 14 May 2016
573 pts
276 comments
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39
Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand
youtube.com · CameronBanga · 25 May 2016
566 pts
71 comments
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40
OxyContin's 12-hour problem
static.latimes.com · sergeant3 · 7 May 2016
565 pts
359 comments
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43
Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
firebase.googleblog.com · Nemant · 18 May 2016
530 pts
204 comments
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44
“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
reddit.com · Hjugo · 9 May 2016
521 pts
257 comments
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45
React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp
fullstackreact.com · jashmenn · 26 May 2016
521 pts
245 comments
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46
PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
akorotkov.github.io · lneves · 9 May 2016
521 pts
210 comments
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47
A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript
github.com · oori · 14 May 2016
517 pts
186 comments
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48
JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
chromium.googlesource.com · onestone · 17 May 2016
509 pts
217 comments
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50
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 25 May 2016
501 pts
398 comments
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51
Blocklist of all Facebook domains
github.com · temp · 28 May 2016
499 pts
142 comments
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52
The void left by the parallel port
medium.com · OakNinja · 5 May 2016
496 pts
144 comments
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53
Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area
mercurynews.com · akg_67 · 12 May 2016
494 pts
342 comments
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54
30 years later, QBasic is still the best
nicolasbize.com · bubblicious · 5 May 2016
493 pts
299 comments
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55
IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
rogerschank.com · Jerry2 · 23 May 2016
481 pts
173 comments
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56
The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do
backchannel.com · dwaxe · 31 May 2016
479 pts
253 comments
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57
Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
posteriorscience.net · brunoc · 4 May 2016
478 pts
232 comments
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58
Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick
imagetragick.com · nthitz · 3 May 2016
478 pts
230 comments
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59
Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview
clojure.org · SCdF · 23 May 2016
474 pts
153 comments
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60
HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps
joelonsoftware.com · GarethX · 31 May 2016
473 pts
92 comments
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