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1.		Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT (webkit.org)
		491 points by panic on May 13, 2014 \| 96 comments
2.		‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead (swissinfo.ch)
		418 points by lox on May 13, 2014 \| 67 comments
3.		iMessage purgatory (adampash.com)
		386 points by mortenjorck on May 13, 2014 \| 170 comments
4.		Octotree: the missing GitHub tree view (Chrome extension) (chrome.google.com)
		362 points by yblu on May 13, 2014 \| 106 comments
5.		Computers are fast (jvns.ca)
		315 points by bdcravens on May 13, 2014 \| 154 comments
6.		Source code of ASP.NET (github.com/aspnet)
		291 points by wfjackson on May 13, 2014 \| 99 comments
7.		Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling (vox.com)
		290 points by luu on May 13, 2014 \| 53 comments
8.		Xeer (wikipedia.org)
		246 points by mazsa on May 13, 2014 \| 117 comments
9.		Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet (reuters.com)
		247 points by kevcampb on May 13, 2014 \| 205 comments
10.		Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack (tbray.org)
		250 points by kallus on May 13, 2014 \| 27 comments
11.		MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source (github.com/llk)
		239 points by speakvisually on May 13, 2014 \| 61 comments
12.		Introducing Firebase Hosting (firebase.com)
		220 points by jamest on May 13, 2014 \| 75 comments
13.		3D Video Capture with Three Kinects (doc-ok.org)
		188 points by phoboslab on May 13, 2014 \| 40 comments
14.		Ask HN: Can we get a "Show HN:" section
		191 points by pumpkinattwelve on May 13, 2014 \| 34 comments
15.		Babun – A new Windows shell (babun.github.io)
		180 points by blearyeyed on May 13, 2014 \| 108 comments
16.		Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time. (epochconverter.com)
		170 points by ozh on May 13, 2014 \| 57 comments
17.		Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too (news.sciencemag.org)
		163 points by robg on May 13, 2014 \| 126 comments
18.		GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow (instantclick.io)
		156 points by dieulot on May 13, 2014 \| 87 comments
19.		Found after 500 years, the wreck of Columbus's flagship the Santa Maria (independent.co.uk)
		146 points by adventured on May 13, 2014 \| 52 comments
20.		A Test for School Reform in Newark (newyorker.com)
		141 points by savorypiano on May 13, 2014 \| 232 comments
21.		Metaprogramming for madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
		134 points by leeoniya on May 13, 2014 \| 12 comments
22.		Scaling SQL with Redis (cramer.io)
		125 points by mclarke on May 13, 2014 \| 35 comments
23.		Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong (a16z.com)
		123 points by moritzplassnig on May 13, 2014 \| 27 comments
24.		"If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow. (thedailywyatt.wordpress.com)
		108 points by tfang17 on May 13, 2014 \| 134 comments
25.		‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald (nytimes.com)
		119 points by duck on May 13, 2014 \| 41 comments
26.		Popular fish oil study deeply flawed, new research says (cbc.ca)
		104 points by fraqed on May 13, 2014 \| 112 comments
27.		How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 2 (zenpayroll.com)
		101 points by edawerd on May 13, 2014 \| 34 comments
28.		Isambard Kingdom Brunel (wikipedia.org)
		103 points by rexreed on May 13, 2014 \| 25 comments
29.		The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification (visiondummy.com)
		92 points by lucasrp on May 13, 2014 \| 26 comments
30.		[dupe] Tesla's relative asks Elon Musk for a donation to finish the Tesla Museum
		91 points by TeMPOraL on May 13, 2014 \| 39 comments
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