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1.		How to solve the problem that the topmost comments get all upvotes (debiki.com)
		231 points by KajMagnus on March 23, 2013 \| 125 comments
2.		Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated (wsj.com)
		211 points by rdl on March 23, 2013 \| 110 comments
3.		Blocked Sites is discontinued (support.google.com)
		201 points by radley on March 23, 2013 \| 134 comments
4.		Linus on Oregon HB 2748 and US education in general (plus.google.com)
		178 points by praptak on March 23, 2013 \| 145 comments
5.		Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?
		180 points by joezydeco on March 23, 2013 \| 139 comments
6.		Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on (github.com/fearofcode)
		169 points by henning on March 23, 2013 \| 51 comments
7.		Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else (smithsonianmag.com)
		168 points by cajuntrep on March 23, 2013 \| 59 comments
8.		Academia Is Eating Its Young (pressbuttongoboink.com)
		151 points by irollboozers on March 23, 2013 \| 107 comments
9.		Why no curl 8 (haxx.se)
		141 points by ternaryoperator on March 23, 2013 \| 45 comments
10.		A Tale of Two Interviews, Part 1 (youell.com)
		133 points by javinpaul on March 23, 2013 \| 74 comments
11.		Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons (dafacto.com)
		134 points by makalumhenders on March 23, 2013 \| 56 comments
12.		The Economics of Evil Google (nytimes.com)
		129 points by mkr-hn on March 23, 2013 \| 115 comments
13.		Fernando Pérez of IPython fame wins the Free Software Foundation Award (wise.io)
		119 points by jsbloom1 on March 23, 2013 \| 13 comments
14.		Show HN: Use your phone to present slides on any screen (uslide.net)
		113 points by alakin on March 23, 2013 \| 70 comments
15.		Nokia discloses their patents on VP8/WebM (ietf.org)
		102 points by thristian on March 23, 2013 \| 64 comments
16.		The Myth of Focus (mindvalleyinsights.com)
		101 points by kseven on March 23, 2013 \| 33 comments
17.		Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal (aasen.in)
		99 points by aaasen on March 23, 2013 \| 56 comments
18.		Mouse path smoothing (twistedoakstudios.com)
		95 points by harrison_clarke on March 23, 2013 \| 25 comments
19.		72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don't Think Students Deserve Credit (techcrunch.com)
		92 points by tchalla on March 23, 2013 \| 57 comments
20.		There are Ladies Present (8thlight.com)
		91 points by phinze on March 23, 2013 \| 109 comments
21.		US Senate approves proposed Internet Sales Tax (techcrunch.com)
		91 points by Shenglong on March 23, 2013 \| 128 comments
22.		AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use (paidcontent.org)
		87 points by protomyth on March 23, 2013 \| 44 comments
23.		The Tunnels of NYC's East Side Access Project (theatlantic.com)
		87 points by kevin_morrill on March 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
24.		GoIRC - Event-based stateful IRC client framework for Go (github.com/fluffle)
		85 points by neeee on March 23, 2013 \| 27 comments
25.		Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem (theatlantic.com)
		83 points by watchdogtimer on March 23, 2013 \| 73 comments
26.		We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate (status.github.com)
		81 points by orrsella on March 23, 2013 \| 138 comments
27.		Fltdsgn - a showcase of flat UI design (fltdsgn.com)
		81 points by adrianhoward on March 23, 2013 \| 38 comments
28.		Desktop notifications in Firefox nightlies (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
		79 points by miohtama on March 23, 2013 \| 25 comments
29.		ArchiveTeam + Yahoo Messages Shuttering + EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl (rossduggan.ie)
		74 points by duggan on March 23, 2013 \| 21 comments
30.		Archiving Yahoo Messages: update
		69 points by sp332 on March 23, 2013 \| 1 comment
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