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1.		Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line (wcvb.com)
		872 points by recoiledsnake on April 15, 2013 \| 586 comments
2.		Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (slashdot.org)
		753 points by DiabloD3 on April 15, 2013 \| 404 comments
3.		News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (guardiannews.com)
		511 points by mycodebreaks on April 15, 2013 \| 236 comments
4.		Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men (penny-arcade.com)
		365 points by bconway on April 15, 2013 \| 170 comments
5.		Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system (scarcecapital.com)
		301 points by zygomega on April 15, 2013 \| 190 comments
6.		Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It (sugarrae.com)
		290 points by krisroadruck on April 15, 2013 \| 228 comments
7.		Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years (highscalability.com)
		261 points by aespinoza on April 15, 2013 \| 45 comments
8.		Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions (google.org)
		246 points by danso on April 15, 2013 \| 32 comments
9.		How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'? (phillipecantin.blogspot.com)
		235 points by sonergonul on April 15, 2013 \| 68 comments
10.		The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment (theatlantic.com)
		228 points by vellum on April 15, 2013 \| 342 comments
11.		How to work with Software Engineers (kennethnorton.com)
		218 points by SanderMak on April 15, 2013 \| 88 comments
12.		A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles (ietf.org)
		202 points by johns on April 15, 2013 \| 27 comments
13.		You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com)
		198 points by romain_g on April 15, 2013 \| 64 comments
14.		HTML5 Video at Netflix (netflix.com)
		176 points by Lightning on April 15, 2013 \| 127 comments
15.		Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW] (donottouch.org)
		172 points by mm_alex on April 15, 2013 \| 53 comments
16.		John Cleese on How to Make Your Life More Creative (brainpickings.org)
		176 points by AndrewDucker on April 15, 2013 \| 16 comments
17.		How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future (microsoft.com)
		167 points by raghavsethi on April 15, 2013 \| 93 comments
18.		Tests Are Overhyped (sturgill.github.io)
		149 points by sturgill on April 15, 2013 \| 149 comments
19.		Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
		151 points by Pasanpr on April 15, 2013 \| 42 comments
20.		Go at Google [video] (infoq.com)
		143 points by DanielRibeiro on April 15, 2013 \| 58 comments
21.		This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
		133 points by mikecane on April 15, 2013 \| 101 comments
22.		MRI's Method Caches (jamesgolick.com)
		121 points by jamesgolick on April 15, 2013 \| 15 comments
23.		The Lambda Papers (readscheme.org)
		110 points by mr_tyzik on April 15, 2013 \| 10 comments
24.		Why Does Music Feel So Good? (nationalgeographic.com)
		104 points by jkat on April 15, 2013 \| 50 comments
25.		Esquivalience (wikipedia.org)
		96 points by arb99 on April 15, 2013 \| 25 comments
26.		FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire (techcrunch.com)
		93 points by shrig94 on April 15, 2013 \| 58 comments
27.		Lisp Is Too Powerful (c2.com)
		94 points by felipebueno on April 15, 2013 \| 94 comments
28.		Moore's Law and the Origin of Life (technologyreview.com)
		92 points by tocomment on April 15, 2013 \| 31 comments
29.		Alice strikes back against Bob's 'reverse dictionary' (jgc.org)
		91 points by jgrahamc on April 15, 2013 \| 14 comments
30.		Designing Open Source (medium.com/words-about-design)
		91 points by jongold on April 15, 2013 \| 31 comments
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