The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2016

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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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How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds medium.com · lxm · 20 May 2016

1.6k pts 427 comments

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Introducing unlimited private repositories github.com · fuzionmonkey · 11 May 2016

1.6k pts 636 comments

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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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Moving Forward on Basic Income blog.ycombinator.com · dwaxe · 31 May 2016

1.3k pts 1.4k comments

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Apple Stole My Music blog.vellumatlanta.com · panic · 5 May 2016

1.3k pts 446 comments

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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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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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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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Did I just win? twitter.com · davidtgoldblatt · 13 May 2016

950 pts 129 comments

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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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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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Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip cloudplatform.googleblog.com · hurrycane · 18 May 2016

823 pts 276 comments

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SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch phys.org · dnetesn · 6 May 2016

814 pts 474 comments

15

A Farewell to FRP elm-lang.org · sharksandwich · 10 May 2016

771 pts 241 comments

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E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display businesswire.com · jameshart · 24 May 2016

763 pts 257 comments

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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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WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete twitter.com · M4v3R · 16 May 2016

755 pts 109 comments

19

TTIP Leaks ttip-leaks.org · Hjugo · 2 May 2016

752 pts 251 comments

20

Pastejacking github.com · borski · 24 May 2016

722 pts 234 comments

21

Save Firefox eff.org · DiabloD3 · 11 May 2016

702 pts 258 comments

22

Chrome removes Backspace to go back bugs.chromium.org · ivank · 19 May 2016

690 pts 583 comments

23

Electron 1.0 is here github.com · alanfranz · 11 May 2016

679 pts 393 comments

24

Crying robinwe.is · sinak · 27 May 2016

672 pts 242 comments

25

Tell HN: Apply HN apology and revision dang · 6 May 2016

653 pts 206 comments

26

Artem vs. Predator ribbonfarm.com · sharpn · 12 May 2016

651 pts 67 comments

27

A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing bloombergview.com · warrenmar · 3 May 2016

641 pts 809 comments

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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto economist.com · shazad · 2 May 2016

639 pts 259 comments

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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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Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test fast.com · protomyth · 18 May 2016

631 pts 360 comments

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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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Reason: A new interface to OCaml facebook.github.io · clayallsopp · 17 May 2016

603 pts 287 comments

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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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Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto nikcub.com · rdl · 2 May 2016

584 pts 248 comments

35

Google Home home.google.com · stuartmemo · 18 May 2016

577 pts 457 comments

36

Alan Kay's reading list squeakland.org · drjohnson · 30 May 2016

575 pts 168 comments

37

Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com · randomname2 · 14 May 2016

573 pts 276 comments

38

Inside Palantir buzzfeed.com · JimDash2145 · 6 May 2016

569 pts 307 comments

39

Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand youtube.com · CameronBanga · 25 May 2016

566 pts 71 comments

40

OxyContin's 12-hour problem static.latimes.com · sergeant3 · 7 May 2016

565 pts 359 comments

41

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) whoishiring · 2 May 2016

553 pts 936 comments

42

New GNU Emacs website gnu.org · rvern · 8 May 2016

547 pts 229 comments

43

Firebase expands to become a unified app platform firebase.googleblog.com · Nemant · 18 May 2016

530 pts 204 comments

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“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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React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp fullstackreact.com · jashmenn · 26 May 2016

521 pts 245 comments

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PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS akorotkov.github.io · lneves · 9 May 2016

521 pts 210 comments

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A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript github.com · oori · 14 May 2016

517 pts 186 comments

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JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 chromium.googlesource.com · onestone · 17 May 2016

509 pts 217 comments

49

CryEngine out on GitHub github.com · lentil_soup · 24 May 2016

506 pts 257 comments

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Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 25 May 2016

501 pts 398 comments

51

Blocklist of all Facebook domains github.com · temp · 28 May 2016

499 pts 142 comments

52

The void left by the parallel port medium.com · OakNinja · 5 May 2016

496 pts 144 comments

53

Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area mercurynews.com · akg_67 · 12 May 2016

494 pts 342 comments

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30 years later, QBasic is still the best nicolasbize.com · bubblicious · 5 May 2016

493 pts 299 comments

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IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson rogerschank.com · Jerry2 · 23 May 2016

481 pts 173 comments

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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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Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP posteriorscience.net · brunoc · 4 May 2016

478 pts 232 comments

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Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick imagetragick.com · nthitz · 3 May 2016

478 pts 230 comments

59

Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview clojure.org · SCdF · 23 May 2016

474 pts 153 comments

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HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps joelonsoftware.com · GarethX · 31 May 2016

473 pts 92 comments