The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2020
We track 1,431 stories from May 2020, averaging 291 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 101 stories. Together they drew 222,769 comments, 156 per story on average.
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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
buzzfeednews.com · minimaxir · 12 May 2020
3k pts
1.3k comments
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SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
nasa.gov · tosh · 30 May 2020
2.9k pts
798 comments
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Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
genedangelo · 31 May 2020
2.6k pts
531 comments
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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
sigpipe.macromates.com · jrk · 22 May 2020
2k pts
998 comments
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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension
blog.pushbullet.com · cimnine · 13 May 2020
1.9k pts
788 comments
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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
support.google.com · zaggynl · 18 May 2020
1.8k pts
1.2k comments
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A first look at Unreal Engine 5
unrealengine.com · HammadB · 13 May 2020
1.7k pts
676 comments
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AWS services explained in one line each
adayinthelifeof.nl · jaytaph · 26 May 2020
1.7k pts
344 comments
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Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public
winston_smith · 23 May 2020
1.5k pts
574 comments
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Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help
gist.github.com · throwaway839246 · 4 May 2020
1.5k pts
714 comments
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Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
reclaimthenet.org · garyclarke27 · 18 May 2020
1.5k pts
546 comments
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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
icann.org · cjbprime · 1 May 2020
1.5k pts
247 comments
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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
themargins.substack.com · lunchbreak · 18 May 2020
1.4k pts
514 comments
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Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
twitter.com · zenexer · 27 May 2020
1.4k pts
542 comments
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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
dhr · 13 May 2020
1.3k pts
2.2k comments
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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
nullsweep.com · BCharlie · 20 May 2020
1.3k pts
430 comments
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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
usenix.org · ketanmaheshwari · 18 May 2020
1.2k pts
269 comments
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New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
axios.com · jbegley · 19 May 2020
1.2k pts
549 comments
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Medium-hard SQL interview questions
quip.com · thomzi12 · 2 May 2020
1.2k pts
287 comments
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Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
wsj.com · longdefeat · 26 May 2020
1.2k pts
977 comments
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We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
saagarjha.com · gok · 11 May 2020
1.2k pts
200 comments
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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
tttthis.com · TTTThis · 16 May 2020
1.2k pts
615 comments
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Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
kodfabrik.com · _fwu1 · 23 May 2020
1.2k pts
513 comments
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Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
supabase.io · vira28 · 27 May 2020
1.1k pts
366 comments
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No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
techcrunch.com · sohkamyung · 6 May 2020
1.1k pts
974 comments
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Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
obsidian.md · ericax · 27 May 2020
1.1k pts
477 comments
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Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
yarapavan · 6 May 2020
1.1k pts
815 comments
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92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
reddit.com · DeusExMachina · 13 May 2020
1.1k pts
626 comments
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Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
bhavukjain.com · masnick · 30 May 2020
1.1k pts
267 comments
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Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
wsj.com · WFHRenaissance · 18 May 2020
1.1k pts
652 comments
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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
twitter.com · danso · 29 May 2020
1.1k pts
1.5k comments
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Write Libraries, Not Frameworks
brandons.me · brundolf · 9 May 2020
1k pts
327 comments
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Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
secondbreakfast.co · secondbreakfast · 13 May 2020
1k pts
422 comments
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Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
trianx · 25 May 2020
1k pts
649 comments
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AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
audiomass.co · zaiste · 28 May 2020
1k pts
181 comments
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Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
iameoghan · 22 May 2020
1k pts
669 comments
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EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3
reddit.com · haunter · 20 May 2020
993 pts
247 comments
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A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
saddlebackbbq.com · rmason · 15 May 2020
975 pts
420 comments
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Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
behnamoh · 12 May 2020
961 pts
719 comments
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Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
axios.com · coloneltcb · 15 May 2020
957 pts
507 comments
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Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
thisworddoesnotexist.com · turtlesoup · 13 May 2020
956 pts
342 comments
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New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
newcss.net · sdan · 18 May 2020
925 pts
182 comments
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Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
rekken.github.io · feross · 14 May 2020
871 pts
418 comments
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A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
ocw.mit.edu · organicfigs · 12 May 2020
835 pts
200 comments
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I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something
old.reddit.com · notRobot · 25 May 2020
827 pts
102 comments
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Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
github.com · MCKapur · 6 May 2020
824 pts
356 comments
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A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
bps.space · pmorici · 31 May 2020
820 pts
94 comments
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It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
danielmiessler.com · danielrm26 · 17 May 2020
798 pts
365 comments
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Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
techcrunch.com · dancric · 5 May 2020
791 pts
901 comments
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