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1.		BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public (torrentfreak.com)
		770 points by ninthfrank07 on April 23, 2013 \| 283 comments
2.		The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away (rockpapershotgun.com)
		443 points by Vekz on April 23, 2013 \| 107 comments
3.		“Right click and save as” needs to go away (svarden.se)
		444 points by cfj on April 23, 2013 \| 185 comments
4.		Postgres on the GPU (postgresql.org)
		397 points by Rickasaurus on April 23, 2013 \| 77 comments
5.		SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High (universetoday.com)
		319 points by navneetpandey on April 23, 2013 \| 203 comments
6.		My First Year in the App Store (trevormckendrick.com)
		255 points by trevmckendrick on April 23, 2013 \| 100 comments
7.		Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (hut8labs.com)
		246 points by durumcrustulum on April 23, 2013 \| 72 comments
8.		TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL (trace.gl)
		210 points by rikarends on April 23, 2013 \| 65 comments
9.		Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help (theatlantic.com)
		183 points by hythloday on April 23, 2013 \| 63 comments
10.		Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5 (html5.org)
		182 points by bpierre on April 23, 2013 \| 56 comments
11.		Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone (geeksphone.com)
		162 points by pepsi on April 23, 2013 \| 89 comments
12.		Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention (data-informed.com)
		160 points by signa11 on April 23, 2013 \| 43 comments
13.		Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life (washingtonpost.com)
		160 points by ilamont on April 23, 2013 \| 163 comments
14.		Futurama Canceled Again (slate.com)
		142 points by erre on April 23, 2013 \| 57 comments
15.		Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager (mneorr.github.io)
		137 points by jamesjyu on April 23, 2013 \| 35 comments
16.		We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla (datadial.net)
		136 points by bubba1356 on April 23, 2013 \| 55 comments
17.		Things I set on new servers (simonholywell.com)
		141 points by Treffynnon on April 23, 2013 \| 69 comments
18.		What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison (dailydot.com)
		136 points by astaire on April 23, 2013 \| 96 comments
19.		Free O'Reilly Books (oreilly.com)
		136 points by Cieplak on April 23, 2013 \| 33 comments
20.		Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
		128 points by wikiburner on April 23, 2013 \| 113 comments
21.		MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores (memsql.com)
		127 points by nikita on April 23, 2013 \| 29 comments
22.		Zen Photon Garden (scanlime.org)
		120 points by andyjohnson0 on April 23, 2013 \| 10 comments
23.		Go Circuit – Distributed Go Programming Framework (gocircuit.org)
		121 points by Rooki on April 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
24.		The Beginner's Guide to Sales (strideapp.com)
		123 points by andrewdumont on April 23, 2013 \| 19 comments
25.		Stupid Legal Threats: You Can't Write About Me Because of Your Blog's Name (popehat.com)
		105 points by tokenadult on April 23, 2013 \| 40 comments
26.		Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists (scientificamerican.com)
		102 points by tokenadult on April 23, 2013 \| 95 comments
27.		Writing A Persona Identity Provider (lukasa.co.uk)
		97 points by johns on April 23, 2013 \| 16 comments
28.		Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech (attendly.com)
		96 points by shandsaker on April 23, 2013 \| 115 comments
29.		Code Organization in Large AngularJS and JavaScript Applications (cliffmeyers.com)
		92 points by joelhooks on April 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
30.		Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million (techcrunch.com)
		92 points by Lightning on April 23, 2013 \| 33 comments
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