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1.		Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
		459 points by codegeek on May 16, 2013 \| 284 comments
2.		Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year (arstechnica.com)
		449 points by jfb on May 16, 2013 \| 115 comments
3.		What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? (eschnou.com)
		425 points by eschnou on May 16, 2013 \| 248 comments
4.		Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW) (dresdencodak.tumblr.com)
		354 points by angersock on May 16, 2013 \| 89 comments
5.		Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help (pastebin.com)
		334 points by worstorbest on May 16, 2013 \| 163 comments
6.		Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11 (github.com/mothran)
		331 points by mothran on May 16, 2013 \| 55 comments
7.		Homemade GPS Receiver (demon.co.uk)
		299 points by elemeno on May 16, 2013 \| 66 comments
8.		D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge (scottaaronson.com)
		267 points by YAYERKA on May 16, 2013 \| 92 comments
9.		A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life (businessinsider.com)
		265 points by awwstn on May 16, 2013 \| 169 comments
10.		Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox (googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk)
		260 points by duckyflip on May 16, 2013 \| 137 comments
11.		Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google (polymer-project.org)
		239 points by bpierre on May 16, 2013 \| 117 comments
12.		Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service (glassbalcony.tumblr.com)
		237 points by _csoz on May 16, 2013 \| 98 comments
13.		Not Having A Real Job (mkrecny.com)
		233 points by mkrecny on May 16, 2013 \| 126 comments
14.		How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection (mentalfloss.com)
		209 points by MarlonPro on May 16, 2013 \| 26 comments
15.		RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements (rethinkdb.com)
		212 points by josegonzalez on May 16, 2013 \| 102 comments
16.		AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game (aggregateknowledge.com)
		187 points by rgrzywinski on May 16, 2013 \| 21 comments
17.		Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew (blog.ycombinator.com)
		177 points by michael_nielsen on May 16, 2013 \| 62 comments
18.		FreeCiv now playable as HTML5 game, including on mobile devices (freeciv.org)
		151 points by danso on May 16, 2013 \| 26 comments
19.		Memory Allocators 101 (jamesgolick.com)
		142 points by bradly on May 16, 2013 \| 21 comments
20.		Genius of our time (domleca.com)
		133 points by SimonDawlat on May 16, 2013 \| 17 comments
21.		Chrome’s requestAutocomplete() (alexmaccaw.com)
		130 points by teej on May 16, 2013 \| 67 comments
22.		Mark 1 FORTH Computer (demon.co.uk)
		122 points by Cieplak on May 16, 2013 \| 9 comments
23.		New Google+ is beautiful? (alexdong.com)
		118 points by alexdong on May 16, 2013 \| 78 comments
24.		Exploiting a Go Binary (codearcana.com)
		112 points by fabriceleal on May 16, 2013 \| 31 comments
25.		Google Buys a Quantum Computer (nytimes.com)
		107 points by sciwiz on May 16, 2013 \| 56 comments
26.		How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model (cubehero.com)
		106 points by iamwil on May 16, 2013 \| 11 comments
27.		PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more (lwn.net)
		97 points by sickpig on May 16, 2013 \| 20 comments
28.		Google+ Games is shutting down (support.google.com)
		97 points by jmillikin on May 16, 2013 \| 109 comments
29.		F# on FreeBSD (msdn.com)
		92 points by profquail on May 16, 2013 \| 14 comments
30.		What I wish systems researchers would work on (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
		93 points by ivanist on May 16, 2013 \| 57 comments
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