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1.		I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore (arstechnica.com)
		448 points by kryptiskt on May 23, 2013 \| 258 comments
2.		Lying Microsoft Advertising (curi.us)
		397 points by xenophanes on May 23, 2013 \| 246 comments
3.		Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web (arstechnica.com)
		335 points by BruceM on May 23, 2013 \| 200 comments
4.		How to work remotely as a software developer (markcampbell.me)
		285 points by markcampbell on May 23, 2013 \| 111 comments
5.		Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project (joelhooks.com)
		277 points by joelhooks on May 23, 2013 \| 132 comments
6.		Flickr's redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing (danwin.com)
		228 points by danso on May 23, 2013 \| 108 comments
7.		Free private Github repos for students and edu people (github.com/edu)
		220 points by ndr on May 23, 2013 \| 162 comments
8.		Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org (x.org)
		197 points by chrisdotcode on May 23, 2013 \| 107 comments
9.		SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O (sqlite.org)
		185 points by moonboots on May 23, 2013 \| 80 comments
10.		Baby's life saved with 3-D printed device that restored his breathing (sciencedaily.com)
		184 points by rosser on May 23, 2013 \| 38 comments
11.		Kiera Wilmot is going to Space Camp (abcnews.go.com)
		170 points by narag on May 23, 2013 \| 55 comments
12.		Trying out this Go thing at Disqus (disqus.com)
		180 points by mattrobenolt on May 23, 2013 \| 192 comments
13.		Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 presentation (kalzumeus.com)
		165 points by stakent on May 23, 2013 \| 25 comments
14.		Pearl Boy WebGL Demo (gooengine.com)
		163 points by hiteshtr on May 23, 2013 \| 80 comments
15.		The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur (washingtonpost.com)
		149 points by chwolfe on May 23, 2013 \| 135 comments
16.		An App Platform for Dumb Phones (dumbsto.re)
		144 points by ramseynasser on May 23, 2013 \| 47 comments
17.		The People of Postgres: Tom Lane (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
		142 points by craigkerstiens on May 23, 2013 \| 12 comments
18.		Haskell in Production: 12 Months Building ApiEngine (mth.io)
		136 points by lelf on May 23, 2013 \| 61 comments
19.		Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers (datacenterknowledge.com)
		135 points by 1SockChuck on May 23, 2013 \| 87 comments
20.		Google Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines (techcrunch.com)
		135 points by psawaya on May 23, 2013 \| 41 comments
21.		Designing blogs for readers (mattgemmell.com)
		123 points by ingve on May 23, 2013 \| 68 comments
22.		Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros (jeditoolkit.com)
		113 points by spion on May 23, 2013 \| 49 comments
23.		Inside Google's Secret Lab (businessweek.com)
		98 points by tonez on May 23, 2013 \| 36 comments
24.		Excel and SQL (datanitro.com)
		93 points by karamazov on May 23, 2013 \| 65 comments
25.		Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time (wired.com)
		92 points by rosser on May 23, 2013 \| 53 comments
26.		Interview with a Blackhat (Part 3/3) (whitehatsec.com)
		90 points by kayge on May 23, 2013 \| 32 comments
27.		IPv6 address space layout best practices (networkengineering.stackexchange.com)
		89 points by usenet on May 23, 2013 \| 13 comments
28.		Why we're building Loom (loom.com)
		85 points by jansen on May 23, 2013 \| 83 comments
29.		Star Trek, tech companies, and the death of futurism in cinema (medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-techno...)
		83 points by estenh on May 23, 2013 \| 123 comments
30.		Volkswagen's 261-MPG Diesel-Electric (wired.com)
		82 points by dpcx on May 23, 2013 \| 88 comments
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