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1.		My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me (trondblog.tumblr.com)
		475 points by sverrejoh on April 29, 2013 \| 233 comments
2.		How I coded in 1985 (jgc.org)
		470 points by jgrahamc on April 29, 2013 \| 118 comments
3.		Google Now on your iPhone and iPad (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		329 points by nreece on April 29, 2013 \| 223 comments
4.		I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look (nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com)
		305 points by captainbenises on April 29, 2013 \| 128 comments
5.		Black Start (wikipedia.org)
		289 points by anthonyb on April 29, 2013 \| 105 comments
6.		Google releases some Glass source code (arstechnica.com)
		283 points by coloneltcb on April 29, 2013 \| 127 comments
7.		Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time (ncsu.edu)
		276 points by pjmorris on April 29, 2013 \| 129 comments
8.		Hurricane on Saturn (nasa.gov)
		256 points by karolisd on April 29, 2013 \| 51 comments
9.		Get that job at Facebook (2012) (facebook.com)
		194 points by sauravt on April 29, 2013 \| 164 comments
10.		Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 (cross-browser.org)
		193 points by dherken on April 29, 2013 \| 115 comments
11.		The //* // /// comment toggle trick (coderwall.com)
		185 points by creaktive on April 29, 2013 \| 124 comments
12.		India is drowning in its own excreta (scientificamerican.com)
		181 points by ragsagar on April 29, 2013 \| 130 comments
13.		Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
		176 points by donohoe on April 29, 2013 \| 55 comments
14.		CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement (crapcha.com)
		176 points by qdot76367 on April 29, 2013 \| 67 comments
15.		Please use git pull --rebase (coderwall.com)
		178 points by bitsweet on April 29, 2013 \| 114 comments
16.		How I attacked a fellow student (cohney.info)
		173 points by jmonegro on April 29, 2013 \| 46 comments
17.		Fix random few-second freezes in Mountain Lion (princeton.edu)
		163 points by swombat on April 29, 2013 \| 110 comments
18.		Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues (designtaxi.com)
		161 points by imwhimsical on April 29, 2013 \| 92 comments
19.		Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript (getprismatic.com)
		162 points by zackzackzack on April 29, 2013 \| 49 comments
20.		iio Engine – A new HTML5 App Framework (gamedev.net)
		148 points by stevewillensky on April 29, 2013 \| 10 comments
21.		The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage (theatlantic.com)
		141 points by awwstn on April 29, 2013 \| 123 comments
22.		UK Government passes “Instagram Act” (theregister.co.uk)
		138 points by choult on April 29, 2013 \| 79 comments
23.		John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died (wikipedia.org)
		136 points by m0nastic on April 29, 2013 \| 15 comments
24.		How to get a job after your startup fails (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
		125 points by jmaskell on April 29, 2013 \| 41 comments
25.		How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity (eff.org)
		124 points by marioestrada on April 29, 2013 \| 96 comments
26.		[dupe] Ghost: The Future of Blogging (Node.js) (tryghost.org)
		118 points by robhawkes on April 29, 2013 \| 73 comments
27.		Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator (webfwd.org)
		121 points by breck on April 29, 2013 \| 28 comments
28.		Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository (gigaom.com)
		118 points by eksith on April 29, 2013 \| 79 comments
29.		View the Universe in different wavelengths (cf.ac.uk)
		114 points by stargazer-3 on April 29, 2013 \| 28 comments
30.		Virgin Galactic goes faster than speed of sound in flight test (virgin.com)
		114 points by andydev on April 29, 2013 \| 41 comments
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