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1.		A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC (windytan.blogspot.fi)
		352 points by emhart on May 4, 2013 \| 45 comments
2.		Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income (mondediplo.com)
		267 points by xSwag on May 4, 2013 \| 225 comments
3.		Predicting Google Product Shutdowns (gwern.net)
		261 points by kiba on May 4, 2013 \| 139 comments
4.		Help Kiera with her legal bills (crowdtilt.com)
		241 points by ajaymehta on May 4, 2013 \| 113 comments
5.		JSON API (jsonapi.org)
		227 points by steveklabnik on May 4, 2013 \| 135 comments
6.		Today I saw the future (brendaneich.com)
		224 points by davidascher on May 4, 2013 \| 48 comments
7.		A “simple” 3rd grade problem (math.stackexchange.com)
		193 points by adito on May 4, 2013 \| 163 comments
8.		How to Be Startup CEO (startupguide.com)
		148 points by bsims on May 4, 2013 \| 21 comments
9.		Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? (guardian.co.uk)
		145 points by glaugh on May 4, 2013 \| 57 comments
10.		ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend (github.com/schani)
		144 points by terhechte on May 4, 2013 \| 86 comments
11.		Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)
		142 points by usea on May 4, 2013 \| 57 comments
12.		The cost of hand-to-mouth living (ft.com)
		139 points by cs702 on May 4, 2013 \| 122 comments
13.		Geometee (geometee.com)
		140 points by mxxx on May 4, 2013 \| 46 comments
14.		Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses (nytimes.com)
		137 points by lxm on May 4, 2013 \| 56 comments
15.		In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit (vice.com)
		137 points by weston on May 4, 2013 \| 85 comments
16.		How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google (forbes.com/sites/roberthof)
		123 points by cmaher on May 4, 2013 \| 106 comments
17.		Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Silk Road (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		107 points by gbrindisi on May 4, 2013 \| 118 comments
18.		Simple Raspberry Pi Rack (raspberrypi.org)
		105 points by ausjke on May 4, 2013 \| 24 comments
19.		Ask gwern: Who are you?
		103 points by bmmayer1 on May 4, 2013 \| 44 comments
20.		Let's Make GitHub Better, Together (shurcool.github.io)
		103 points by DanielRibeiro on May 4, 2013 \| 41 comments
21.		Harper Lee sues for copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird (bbc.co.uk)
		81 points by ComputerGuru on May 4, 2013 \| 43 comments
22.		How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) (bioperl.org)
		80 points by bsima on May 4, 2013 \| 63 comments
23.		What are Fortran and Cobol used for today? (stackoverflow.com)
		80 points by optiminimalist on May 4, 2013 \| 68 comments
24.		How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years (techcrunch.com)
		81 points by btmills on May 4, 2013 \| 33 comments
25.		Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an undefined period of time” (tosdr.org)
		78 points by hugoroy on May 4, 2013 \| 32 comments
26.		[dupe] Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2 (chimerasaurus.com)
		70 points by mmastrac on May 4, 2013 \| 15 comments
27.		Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong (bizjournals.com)
		67 points by rubyron on May 4, 2013 \| 64 comments
28.		Don’t build. Compose (medium.com/on-startups)
		59 points by 2t on May 4, 2013 \| 17 comments
29.		Facebook Blocks Path’s “Find Friends” Access Following Spam Controversy (techcrunch.com)
		58 points by Lightning on May 4, 2013 \| 35 comments
30.		HubSpot CEO: We would've struggled on the West Coast (bizjournals.com)
		55 points by replicatorblog on May 4, 2013 \| 44 comments
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