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May 2016 Archive
31.
Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test (fast.com)
631 points by protomyth on May 18, 2016 | 360 comments
32.
Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB (horizon.io)
606 points by coffeemug on May 17, 2016 | 127 comments
33.
Reason: A new interface to OCaml (facebook.github.io)
603 points by clayallsopp on May 17, 2016 | 287 comments
34.
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu)
592 points by itg on May 19, 2016 | 268 comments
35.
Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto (nikcub.com)
584 points by rdl on May 2, 2016 | 248 comments
36.
Google Home (home.google.com)
577 points by stuartmemo on May 18, 2016 | 457 comments
37.
Alan Kay's reading list (squeakland.org)
575 points by drjohnson on May 30, 2016 | 168 comments
38.
Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area (sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
573 points by randomname2 on May 14, 2016 | 276 comments
39.
Inside Palantir (buzzfeed.com)
569 points by JimDash2145 on May 6, 2016 | 307 comments
40.
Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand (youtube.com)
566 points by CameronBanga on May 25, 2016 | 71 comments
41.
OxyContin's 12-hour problem (static.latimes.com)
565 points by sergeant3 on May 7, 2016 | 359 comments
42.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
553 points by whoishiring on May 2, 2016 | 936 comments
43.
New GNU Emacs website (gnu.org)
547 points by rvern on May 8, 2016 | 229 comments
44.
Firebase expands to become a unified app platform (firebase.googleblog.com)
530 points by Nemant on May 18, 2016 | 204 comments
45.
“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers” (reddit.com)
521 points by Hjugo on May 9, 2016 | 257 comments
46.
React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp (fullstackreact.com)
521 points by jashmenn on May 26, 2016 | 245 comments
47.
PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS (akorotkov.github.io)
521 points by lneves on May 9, 2016 | 210 comments
48.
A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript (github.com)
517 points by oori on May 14, 2016 | 186 comments
49.
JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 (chromium.googlesource.com)
509 points by onestone on May 17, 2016 | 217 comments
50.
CryEngine out on GitHub (github.com)
506 points by lentil_soup on May 24, 2016 | 257 comments
51.
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur (techcrunch.com)
501 points by coloneltcb on May 25, 2016 | 398 comments
52.
Blocklist of all Facebook domains (github.com)
499 points by temp on May 28, 2016 | 142 comments
53.
The void left by the parallel port (medium.com)
496 points by OakNinja on May 5, 2016 | 144 comments
54.
Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area (mercurynews.com)
494 points by akg_67 on May 12, 2016 | 342 comments
55.
30 years later, QBasic is still the best (nicolasbize.com)
493 points by bubblicious on May 5, 2016 | 299 comments
56.
IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (rogerschank.com)
481 points by Jerry2 on May 23, 2016 | 173 comments
57.
The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do (backchannel.com)
479 points by dwaxe on May 31, 2016 | 253 comments
58.
Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP (posteriorscience.net)
478 points by brunoc on May 4, 2016 | 232 comments
59.
Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick (imagetragick.com)
478 points by nthitz on May 3, 2016 | 230 comments
60.
Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview (clojure.org)
474 points by SCdF on May 23, 2016 | 153 comments