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1.		Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
		483 points by markuspof on May 12, 2014 \| 131 comments
2.		Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character? (stackoverflow.com)
		468 points by gioele on May 12, 2014 \| 85 comments
3.		Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript (playfuljs.com)
		339 points by hunterloftis on May 12, 2014 \| 56 comments
4.		The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win (wired.com)
		322 points by relampago on May 12, 2014 \| 180 comments
5.		Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers (theguardian.com)
		317 points by not_dirnsa on May 12, 2014 \| 136 comments
6.		Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus (orionmagazine.org)
		297 points by Snail_Commando on May 12, 2014 \| 104 comments
7.		Introducing ASP.NET vNext (hanselman.com)
		252 points by ragesh on May 12, 2014 \| 205 comments
8.		Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (mako.cc)
		229 points by martey on May 12, 2014 \| 103 comments
9.		Mkdown (mkdown.com)
		223 points by jack7890 on May 12, 2014 \| 56 comments
10.		Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos (nytimes.com)
		219 points by applecore on May 12, 2014 \| 266 comments
11.		Distributed Systems and the End of the API (quilt.org)
		209 points by mcms on May 12, 2014 \| 94 comments
12.		Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone (xip.io)
		206 points by ozh on May 12, 2014 \| 69 comments
13.		Unicode in Python 3 (pocoo.org)
		207 points by buttscicles on May 12, 2014 \| 96 comments
14.		Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (yosefk.com)
		198 points by smackay on May 12, 2014 \| 168 comments
15.		The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality (richg42.blogspot.com)
		165 points by jcastro on May 12, 2014 \| 109 comments
16.		Stop the Slow Lane (stoptheslowlane.com)
		186 points by bfeld on May 12, 2014 \| 50 comments
17.		Asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
		162 points by matt42 on May 12, 2014 \| 34 comments
18.		Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?
		144 points by nemild on May 12, 2014 \| 66 comments
19.		2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor (extremetech.com)
		141 points by givan on May 12, 2014 \| 38 comments
20.		Show HN: OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games (res0l.net)
		131 points by ZakWheaton on May 12, 2014 \| 40 comments
21.		Categories from scratch
		133 points by mmastrac on May 12, 2014 \| 20 comments
22.		Baby Name Predictor (time.com)
		127 points by jsvine on May 12, 2014 \| 73 comments
23.		Algorithm for Capturing Pokémon (dragonflycave.com)
		117 points by jonshariat on May 12, 2014 \| 29 comments
24.		OAuth Security Cheatsheet (oauthsecurity.com)
		125 points by homakov on May 12, 2014 \| 15 comments
25.		Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview (msdn.com)
		117 points by chris-at on May 12, 2014 \| 16 comments
26.		Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial (scannerlicker.net)
		111 points by adamnemecek on May 12, 2014 \| 33 comments
27.		Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events (soundcloud.com)
		108 points by sagichmal on May 12, 2014 \| 29 comments
28.		The Power of Fat (aeon.co)
		101 points by mr_tyzik on May 12, 2014 \| 24 comments
29.		Plaintiff in tech hiring suit asks judge to reject settlement (reuters.com)
		106 points by 001sky on May 12, 2014 \| 35 comments
30.		Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (2004) (weitz.de)
		88 points by nkurz on May 12, 2014 \| 22 comments
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