Welcome back to the monthly roundup of best performing stories on . This month, we’re leveraging Medium’s trending stories algorithm to rank the top performing 23 stories. Additionally, I gave every article a subhead of off the cuff importance, and then listed them alphabetically because there’s a chance I’m a figment of your imagination created by . Seriously, couldn’t be more impressed with our contributors this month, and how we’ve accounted for 5+ million minutes in May. Hacker Noon artificial intelligence Also, if you’re in San Francisco area June 20th, use the discount code “@ami” for a complementary ticket to our inaugural event . Here are May 2017’s top 23 trending tech stories: : App development education Great Mobile Apps & Why They’re Successful: A Case Study by Nabeena Mali (597❤️, 22min. 📖 ) Business model evolution: What Comes After SaaS? by Noah Jessop (398 ❤️, 7min. 📖 ) Create an actionable mindset: Stop reading. Start coding. Share your knowledge. by Owen Far (388 ❤️, 7min. 📖 ) Cryptocurrency story time: The Evolution Of The Bitcoin/Blockchain Narrative by Frank Schuil (178 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) Emotionally attach yourself to your language: I Still Love jQuery — And You Should, Too. by Sam Oldenburg (254 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) Gotta’ get me some of that Javascript: A First Class Language at Last by Tom Goldenberg (323 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) Go long for Golang I wrote some Golang, and it felt great by Chris Gregori (243 ❤️, 7min. 📖 ) How new tech compete with incumbent giants: How AI Startups Must Compete with Google: Reply to Professor Fei-Fei Li by Mostapha Benhenda (126 ❤️, 7min. 📖 ) How NOT to make things: Guidelines for Building Software that Will Make People Hate You by Pedro Silva Moreira (325 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) If Pareto coded: The 80/20 of React Native by William Candillon (122 ❤️, 4min. 📖 ) Lets geek out: How Your Data is Stored, or, The Laws of the Imaginary Greeks by Yonatan Zunger (519 ❤️, 31min. 📖 ) Maths: A friend sent me a proposed proof of a famous unsolved maths problem — so why haven’t I read it? by Junaid Mubeen (398 ❤️, 7 min. 📖) Nerdy dating desires: Why we need a dating app that understands Nash’s equilibrium by Abhishek Madhavan (126 ❤️, 5min. 📖) Optimizing our personal lives as if we were machines: How I live: My 115 things by Stephen Cognetta (104 ❤️, 4min. 📖 ) Offline password hacking comparisons: [Nodejs] Security: Broken Authentication by Peter Chang (199 ❤️, 4min. 📖 ) Politics driving some kind of tech innovation: Analyzing a counter intelligence cyber operation: How Macron just changed cyber security forever by Gadi Evron (292 ❤️, 9 min. 📖) Product management life : WHAT MAKES A GREAT PRODUCT MANAGER y Lawrence Ripsher (541❤️, 10min. 📖 ) Productivity is Everything: Micro-Habits Changed My Life by Peter Schroeder 🚀 (459 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) Start giving back to the web: How to Get Started with Open Source by Sam Jarman (173 ❤️, 3min. 📖 ) Top 3 Tutorials: Free introduction to Elixir, OTP, Ecto, and Phoenix by DailyDrip (210 ❤️, 7min. 📖 ) My Favorite Free Resources for Learning JavaScript by Kelly Robert Graver (186 ❤️, 4min. 📖 ) Webpack: The Basics by Kari Sabine Malmin (212 ❤️, 5min. 📖 ) Why you should definitely cold email those special someones: The art of sending an email — Why you should care to learn it by Misbah Ashraf (281 ❤️, 8min. 📖 ) So, that’s this month’s best tech reading — 2 hours and 56 minutes of tech reading pleasure :-) Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted, , (of ) David Smooke Hacker Noon AMI P.S. Read more about Artificial Intelligence. , APIs , Developer Bootcamp , Javascript , Learning AI if You Suck at Math , MVP Lessons , Product Management Life , The Countdown , Tech Careers , & Venture Capital. P.P.S. I f you’re in San Francisco area June 20th, use the discount code “@ami” for a complementary ticket to our inaugural event .