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1.		How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy (penny-arcade.com)
		452 points by ssclafani on May 3, 2013 \| 106 comments
2.		I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something (taigeair.com)
		442 points by taigeair on May 3, 2013 \| 329 comments
3.		Animated Vector Icons (livicons.com)
		328 points by fady on May 3, 2013 \| 55 comments
4.		I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks (joshledgard.com)
		325 points by westonh on May 3, 2013 \| 62 comments
5.		How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C (toptal.com)
		267 points by crm416 on May 3, 2013 \| 112 comments
6.		Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround (edmunds.com)
		260 points by dmmalam on May 3, 2013 \| 118 comments
7.		Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine (nytimes.com)
		259 points by g_h on May 3, 2013 \| 93 comments
8.		YC without being in YC (42floors.com)
		205 points by djyaz1200 on May 3, 2013 \| 41 comments
9.		NeXT Computer (johnmirandaphoto.com)
		195 points by nashequilibrium on May 3, 2013 \| 109 comments
10.		OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebration of 'Day Against DRM' (oreilly.com)
		179 points by tchalla on May 3, 2013 \| 58 comments
11.		Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?
		150 points by SeanDav on May 3, 2013 \| 101 comments
12.		BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 (eetimes.com)
		146 points by ca98am79 on May 3, 2013 \| 91 comments
13.		Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine' (bbc.co.uk)
		136 points by will_brown on May 3, 2013 \| 68 comments
14.		The world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun has been made (extremetech.com)
		135 points by marshc1 on May 3, 2013 \| 159 comments
15.		How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison (businessinsider.com)
		131 points by bocalogic on May 3, 2013 \| 91 comments
16.		Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao)
		115 points by chrismealy on May 3, 2013 \| 90 comments
17.		Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source (venturebeat.com)
		115 points by gregpurtell on May 3, 2013 \| 29 comments
18.		The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley (slate.com)
		109 points by lxm on May 3, 2013 \| 142 comments
19.		"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany (dpma.de)
		102 points by 67726e on May 3, 2013 \| 45 comments
20.		Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API (mocky.io)
		93 points by yotsumi on May 3, 2013 \| 55 comments
21.		How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture (ryancarson.com)
		93 points by ryancarson on May 3, 2013 \| 55 comments
22.		How NYC's first “director of analytics” revolutionized building inspections (slate.com)
		88 points by murtali on May 3, 2013 \| 8 comments
23.		A Proposal: Renaming Backend/Frontend to Application/UI Developers (theothersideofcode.com)
		80 points by zappan on May 3, 2013 \| 72 comments
24.		UNICEF: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes (theatlantic.com)
		78 points by PankajGhosh on May 3, 2013 \| 42 comments
25.		Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard (damienkatz.net)
		78 points by jamesmiller5 on May 3, 2013 \| 27 comments
26.		Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?
		77 points by GuiA on May 3, 2013 \| 68 comments
27.		Why I Wear a Disco Ball (willwashburn.com)
		75 points by willwashburn on May 3, 2013 \| 68 comments
28.		The Cult Of Positive Attitude and Always Saying Yes (meetingboy.com)
		74 points by tamersalama on May 3, 2013 \| 41 comments
29.		Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse (samsaffron.com)
		75 points by ppadron on May 3, 2013 \| 37 comments
30.		Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets (arstechnica.com)
		66 points by shawndumas on May 3, 2013 \| 65 comments
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