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1.		Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online (clippingmagic.com)
		571 points by jacobn on May 9, 2013 \| 140 comments
2.		A bill in Congress legalizes cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA (fixthedmca.org)
		501 points by sinak on May 9, 2013 \| 106 comments
3.		The Onion releases fartscroll.js (theonion.github.io)
		490 points by jgv on May 9, 2013 \| 126 comments
4.		“The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car” (consumerreports.org)
		370 points by shill on May 9, 2013 \| 283 comments
5.		LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network (interactually.com)
		334 points by interactually on May 9, 2013 \| 205 comments
6.		Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible (nature.com)
		292 points by vog on May 9, 2013 \| 179 comments
7.		PyPy 2.0 Released (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		280 points by craigkerstiens on May 9, 2013 \| 76 comments
8.		10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out (macleans.ca)
		275 points by sharkweek on May 9, 2013 \| 150 comments
9.		An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence (thetokenizer.com)
		232 points by shlomib on May 9, 2013 \| 76 comments
10.		Plans for Vim 7.4 (groups.google.com)
		205 points by davekt on May 9, 2013 \| 83 comments
11.		RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins (rubymotion.com)
		185 points by jballanc on May 9, 2013 \| 74 comments
12.		Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information (whitehouse.gov)
		180 points by BruceM on May 9, 2013 \| 24 comments
13.		Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed (slate.com)
		179 points by nostrademons on May 9, 2013 \| 170 comments
14.		Try Objective-C (codeschool.com)
		176 points by noinput on May 9, 2013 \| 61 comments
15.		This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like (smithsonianmag.com)
		166 points by sytelus on May 9, 2013 \| 117 comments
16.		80 FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles and Switch On Lights (limpkin.fr)
		156 points by Lightning on May 9, 2013 \| 25 comments
17.		Btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go (bitcoinmagazine.com)
		150 points by waterlesscloud on May 9, 2013 \| 56 comments
18.		A solution for designers who don't know Wordpress (bckmn.com)
		121 points by bckmn on May 9, 2013 \| 44 comments
19.		Box Acquires Crocodoc (YC W10) (box.com)
		123 points by goronbjorn on May 9, 2013 \| 42 comments
20.		Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011) (aarongreenspan.com)
		113 points by wslh on May 9, 2013 \| 81 comments
21.		Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader (github.com/bennyguitar)
		110 points by bennyg on May 9, 2013 \| 73 comments
22.		With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Professional Reading (strifeblog.org)
		104 points by jerryhuang100 on May 9, 2013 \| 50 comments
23.		Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform (arstechnica.com)
		102 points by shawndumas on May 9, 2013 \| 12 comments
24.		Cleaning Radar Images using Neural Nets and Computer Vision (forecast.io)
		94 points by jparise on May 9, 2013 \| 20 comments
25.		The Manual-First Startup (viniciusvacanti.com)
		96 points by suneel0101 on May 9, 2013 \| 23 comments
26.		The Worst Room - Photos of Cheap Rooms for Rent in NYC (theworstroom.tumblr.com)
		85 points by throwaway1980 on May 9, 2013 \| 109 comments
27.		It's legal to download The Great Gatsby in most of the world (go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
		91 points by gluejar on May 9, 2013 \| 42 comments
28.		Travelling Salesman – Official Movie Site (travellingsalesmanmovie.com)
		85 points by neckbeard on May 9, 2013 \| 48 comments
29.		Ruchi Sanghvi, Dropbox VP, testifies on immigration reform [video] (facebook.com)
		85 points by BIackSwan on May 9, 2013 \| 32 comments
30.		[dupe] Click on the "I" and the "O" (developers.google.com)
		77 points by plg on May 9, 2013 \| 26 comments
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