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1.
Google Fails the Turing Test (plus.google.com)
385 points by d2vid on Feb 12, 2013 | 165 comments
2.
Web Development: A Crazy World (rubiken.com)
383 points by cygwin98 on Feb 12, 2013 | 196 comments
3.
Stupid, Stupid xBox (ilikecode.wordpress.com)
338 points by cek on Feb 12, 2013 | 176 comments
4.
Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks (jasonormand.com)
305 points by okor on Feb 12, 2013 | 257 comments
5.
Flat Pixels (sachagreif.com)
265 points by jmduke on Feb 12, 2013 | 68 comments
6.
Write More Classes (pocoo.org)
238 points by someone13 on Feb 12, 2013 | 145 comments
7.
A warning to college profs from a high school teacher (washingtonpost.com)
233 points by chwolfe on Feb 12, 2013 | 219 comments
8.
Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza (digitaltrends.com)
224 points by elleferrer on Feb 12, 2013 | 195 comments
9.
Yours vs. Mine (dcurt.is)
224 points by relation on Feb 12, 2013 | 102 comments
10.
DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared (avclub.com)
225 points by Lightning on Feb 12, 2013 | 101 comments
11.
Incredible Secret Money Machine (kk.org)
219 points by andrewl on Feb 12, 2013 | 71 comments
12.
Email transparency (stripe.com)
219 points by xal on Feb 12, 2013 | 64 comments
13.
White House Owes Response To Petition To Fire Prosecutor Of Aaron Swartz (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
151 points by hachiya on Feb 12, 2013 | 80 comments
14.
Mexico: The New China (nytimes.com)
152 points by ldayley on Feb 12, 2013 | 58 comments
15.
Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub (github.com/billbudge)
143 points by ndrake on Feb 12, 2013 | 45 comments
16.
The Future of Excel (datanitro.com)
139 points by karamazov on Feb 12, 2013 | 113 comments
17.
Julia, I love you (2012) (johnmyleswhite.com)
136 points by Adrock on Feb 12, 2013 | 65 comments
18.
Think Like a 5-Year Old (inc.com)
121 points by treskot on Feb 12, 2013 | 64 comments
19.
Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous
107 points by nischalshetty on Feb 12, 2013 | 75 comments
20.
Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing (johannakoll.posterous.com)
105 points by emillon on Feb 12, 2013 | 235 comments
21.
R packages I wish I'd known about earlier (yhathq.com)
104 points by glamp on Feb 12, 2013 | 15 comments
22.
Octave for Android (play.google.com)
96 points by bshanks on Feb 12, 2013 | 43 comments
23.
'Artificial' earthquake detected in North Korea may be nuclear test (theaustralian.com.au)
96 points by arcatek on Feb 12, 2013 | 132 comments
24.
Show HN: Beautiful real-time dashboards with FnordMetric (fnordmetric.io)
95 points by finnomenon on Feb 12, 2013 | 12 comments
25.
How An Algorithm Feels From Inside (lesswrong.com)
94 points by pawelwentpawel on Feb 12, 2013 | 17 comments
26.
Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013 (37signals.com)
85 points by dmishe on Feb 12, 2013 | 36 comments
27.
Bill Gates' AMA (gist.io)
82 points by jrajav on Feb 12, 2013 | 21 comments
28.
Github powered comments (bradleyfew.com)
81 points by applebiz89 on Feb 12, 2013 | 17 comments
29.
"earthquakes in north korea" (wolframalpha.com)
79 points by Kipper100 on Feb 12, 2013 | 38 comments
30.
"Intel Packet of Death" not Intel's problem (h-online.com)
78 points by Maci on Feb 12, 2013 | 32 comments

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