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1.
Manchester City Council (manchester.gov.uk)
363 points by mattwritescode on May 2, 2013 | 232 comments
2.
Portal Released For Steam On Linux (phoronix.com)
302 points by mindstab on May 2, 2013 | 146 comments
3.
Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins (unheap.com)
262 points by shawndumas on May 2, 2013 | 51 comments
4.
Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop (hackthings.com)
248 points by jheitzeb on May 2, 2013 | 195 comments
5.
Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo (unrealengine.com)
250 points by AaronMT on May 2, 2013 | 143 comments
6.
Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup (dimsemenov.com)
196 points by diiiimaaaa on May 2, 2013 | 64 comments
7.
Year 2038 problem (wikipedia.org)
194 points by areski on May 2, 2013 | 108 comments
8.
An Introduction to the Mechanics of Bitcoin (khanacademy.org)
184 points by sophiebits on May 2, 2013 | 36 comments
9.
Bayes' rule in Haskell (2007) (randomhacks.net)
176 points by tikhonj on May 2, 2013 | 77 comments
10.
Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You (wsj.com)
151 points by tuxguy on May 2, 2013 | 71 comments
11.
Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme (atomicobject.com)
145 points by fogus on May 2, 2013 | 22 comments
12.
Nerds, we need to have a talk (2011) (thingist.com)
136 points by roguecoder on May 2, 2013 | 85 comments
13.
Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue (highscalability.com)
134 points by abhijitr on May 2, 2013 | 48 comments
14.
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 (thenextweb.com)
124 points by Lightning on May 2, 2013 | 18 comments
15.
Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM (paralleluniverse.co)
116 points by pron on May 2, 2013 | 54 comments
16.
Petition to drop charges against Kiera Wilmot (change.org)
124 points by rmah on May 2, 2013 | 101 comments
17.
Probably the worst URL scheme ever (bvb.de)
113 points by jakub_g on May 2, 2013 | 100 comments
18.
Exploration of the Google PageRank Algorithm (googledrive.com)
115 points by bflbfl on May 2, 2013 | 25 comments
19.
Stop “Disrupting” Everything (slate.com)
103 points by jamesbritt on May 2, 2013 | 80 comments
20.
Linode Manager Two-Step Authentication (linode.com)
96 points by timewasted on May 2, 2013 | 84 comments
21.
Building Stuff To Help You Sell The Stuff You Build (slideshare.net)
95 points by urlwolf on May 2, 2013 | 25 comments
22.
Google and Adobe team up to improve fonts on iOS and Linux (zdnet.com)
98 points by microwise on May 2, 2013 | 76 comments
23.
Sweating the UI and UX details: Emails and Email Addresses (close.io)
94 points by SteliE on May 2, 2013 | 62 comments
24.
Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients (kickstarter.com)
92 points by ktheory on May 2, 2013 | 27 comments
25.
MLWorks: SML compiler from Harlequin returning from the dead as open source (ravenbrook.com)
89 points by BruceM on May 2, 2013 | 29 comments
26.
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine (nytimes.com)
83 points by Libertatea on May 2, 2013 | 8 comments
27.
No, I Don't Want a Ticket for the Women's Luncheon (stronglikebool.com)
88 points by glazskunrukitis on May 2, 2013 | 143 comments
28.
Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects (github.com/facebook)
92 points by marcosero on May 2, 2013 | 19 comments
29.
What professional philosophers believe – Survey results (philpapers.org)
78 points by shawndumas on May 2, 2013 | 108 comments
30.
New Dyno Networking Model (heroku.com)
79 points by friism on May 2, 2013 | 18 comments

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