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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
20.Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video] (infoq.com)
117 points by spooneybarger on May 6, 2013 | 5 comments
21.Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years (technologyreview.com)
112 points by mtgx on May 6, 2013 | 35 comments
22.Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868) (books.google.com)
111 points by fianchetto on May 6, 2013 | 25 comments
23.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
24.The Future of Adobe Fireworks (adobe.com)
108 points by dinosaurs on May 6, 2013 | 74 comments
25.VimSpeak (github.com/ashleyf)
105 points by DanielRibeiro on May 6, 2013 | 41 comments
26.Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable (csail.mit.edu)
102 points by newscasta on May 6, 2013 | 64 comments
27.U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case (torrentfreak.com)
103 points by Lightning on May 6, 2013 | 106 comments
28.Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition (lispinsummerprojects.org)
100 points by tsm on May 6, 2013 | 40 comments
29.Coinbase grew 15x in the past 3 months (coinbase.com)
96 points by barmstrong on May 6, 2013 | 45 comments
30.Hacking Redis: Adding Interval Sets (starkiller.net)
90 points by jacobparker on May 6, 2013 | 8 comments

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