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1.I Am a Bad Developer (pen.io)
299 points by accutrements on May 6, 2013 | 204 comments
2.In defense of <canvas> (holovaty.com)
294 points by adrianh on May 6, 2013 | 61 comments
3.Google now treats .io as a gccTLD (support.google.com)
274 points by joshmcmillan on May 6, 2013 | 122 comments
4.What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram (vanityfair.com)
230 points by ms-rm on May 6, 2013 | 142 comments
5.How to Spread The Word About Your Code (hacks.mozilla.org)
229 points by rnyman on May 6, 2013 | 32 comments
6.Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer (stratechery.com)
189 points by monkbent on May 6, 2013 | 89 comments
7.DBX (dropbox.com)
190 points by goronbjorn on May 6, 2013 | 95 comments
8.American Dialect Map (aschmann.net)
174 points by bifrost on May 6, 2013 | 126 comments
9.HN supports SPDY (spdycheck.org)
171 points by nodesocket on May 6, 2013 | 71 comments
10.Hacking Google's HVAC Systems (cylance.com)
161 points by ssclafani on May 6, 2013 | 39 comments
11.Adobe abandons its Creative Suite to focus on Creative Cloud (thenextweb.com)
161 points by 0x10c0fe11ce on May 6, 2013 | 209 comments
12."I can't do math" (2001) (maine.edu)
149 points by mejakethomas on May 6, 2013 | 132 comments
13.Worthless security claims (troyhunt.com)
148 points by mmahemoff on May 6, 2013 | 38 comments
14.Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) (willbenton.com)
140 points by cramforce on May 6, 2013 | 131 comments
15.Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs (zapier.com)
143 points by bryanh on May 6, 2013 | 33 comments
16.Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (1989) (longnow.org)
127 points by troystribling on May 6, 2013 | 11 comments
17.Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader (teslamotors.com)
125 points by Pasanpr on May 6, 2013 | 49 comments
18.Binary marble adding machine (woodgears.ca)
119 points by ColinWright on May 6, 2013 | 21 comments
19.Turning Down TechCrunch (medium.com/building-gittip)
119 points by craigkerstiens on May 6, 2013 | 41 comments

Epic: "But the chain of logic from 'Linux is about choice' to 'ship everything and let the user chose how they want their sound to not work' starts with fallacy and ends with disaster."
21.Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video] (infoq.com)
117 points by spooneybarger on May 6, 2013 | 5 comments
22.Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years (technologyreview.com)
112 points by mtgx on May 6, 2013 | 35 comments
23.Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868) (books.google.com)
111 points by fianchetto on May 6, 2013 | 25 comments
24.Docker 0.3 released: public index, data volumes and open-source registry (github.com/dotcloud)
111 points by shad42 on May 6, 2013 | 15 comments
25.The Future of Adobe Fireworks (adobe.com)
108 points by dinosaurs on May 6, 2013 | 74 comments
26.VimSpeak (github.com/ashleyf)
105 points by DanielRibeiro on May 6, 2013 | 41 comments
27.Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable (csail.mit.edu)
102 points by newscasta on May 6, 2013 | 64 comments
28.U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case (torrentfreak.com)
103 points by Lightning on May 6, 2013 | 106 comments
29.Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition (lispinsummerprojects.org)
100 points by tsm on May 6, 2013 | 40 comments
30.Coinbase grew 15x in the past 3 months (coinbase.com)
96 points by barmstrong on May 6, 2013 | 45 comments

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