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1.		Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler (blog.mozilla.org)
		248 points by barkingcat on April 5, 2013 \| 102 comments
2.		URLs are for People, not Computers (not-implemented.com)
		210 points by Kop on April 5, 2013 \| 152 comments
3.		The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide (businessinsider.com)
		210 points by chaz on April 5, 2013 \| 67 comments
4.		Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings (mediapreservation.wordpress.com)
		204 points by gbaygon on April 5, 2013 \| 24 comments
5.		Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is? (serverfault.com)
		200 points by usea on April 5, 2013 \| 120 comments
6.		Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop (alienware.com)
		195 points by onosendai on April 5, 2013 \| 99 comments
7.		In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree (aarongreenspan.com)
		194 points by thinkcomp on April 5, 2013 \| 68 comments
8.		Web Framework Benchmarks Round 2 (techempower.com)
		193 points by pfalls on April 5, 2013 \| 232 comments
9.		Introduction to x64 Assembly (intel.com)
		176 points by AndreyKarpov on April 5, 2013 \| 76 comments
10.		Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps (jakelevine.me)
		167 points by alexmr on April 5, 2013 \| 64 comments
11.		Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com (eff.org)
		163 points by leephillips on April 5, 2013 \| 101 comments
12.		Homeless in Silicon Valley (billmoyers.com)
		156 points by lavrentia on April 5, 2013 \| 142 comments
13.		There are no 10x developers, but there are 1/10 ones (techfounder.net)
		154 points by pytrin on April 5, 2013 \| 165 comments
14.		Show HN: Pinry, a self-hosted Pinterest (getpinry.com)
		140 points by kklimonda on April 5, 2013 \| 41 comments
15.		List out of Lambda (stevelosh.com)
		136 points by motter on April 5, 2013 \| 47 comments
16.		Zombie VCs (daniellemorrill.com)
		134 points by jayzalowitz on April 5, 2013 \| 102 comments
17.		Updated Packages – Python 3.3 (ubuntu.com)
		135 points by Goranek on April 5, 2013 \| 111 comments
18.		Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? (bitcointalk.org)
		132 points by dirtyaura on April 5, 2013 \| 117 comments
19.		Everything I know about design I learned playing Starcraft (quizlet.com)
		130 points by asuth on April 5, 2013 \| 57 comments
20.		Google Spell goes down and no one notices (brokentone.com)
		123 points by brokentone on April 5, 2013 \| 48 comments
21.		Coinbase Response: Data On Merchant Pages (coinbase.com)
		124 points by sethbannon on April 5, 2013 \| 18 comments
22.		Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things (self-evident.org)
		114 points by cs702 on April 5, 2013 \| 125 comments
23.		I Bought a Bitcoin (nymag.com)
		110 points by benwoody on April 5, 2013 \| 111 comments
24.		Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? (gamasutra.com)
		110 points by ttuominen on April 5, 2013 \| 71 comments
25.		Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State (bloomberg.com)
		100 points by dmitriy_ko on April 5, 2013 \| 98 comments
26.		AMI-Bios Sourcecode and UEFI Signing Key leaked? (adamcaudill.com)
		93 points by mablae on April 5, 2013 \| 43 comments
27.		Show HN: Pandas, Numpy, and SciPy users can now access our over 4M datasets (quandl.com)
		93 points by seanrwcrawford on April 5, 2013 \| 13 comments
28.		We Can Do Better (ea.com)
		90 points by BIackSwan on April 5, 2013 \| 116 comments
29.		Show HN: How I built a trading signal by scraping Nasdaq for short interest (quantopian.com)
		89 points by fawce on April 5, 2013 \| 51 comments
30.		119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st (daniellemorrill.com)
		84 points by dmor on April 5, 2013 \| 18 comments
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