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1.
A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (thoughtcrime.org)
459 points by bbatsell on May 13, 2013 | 111 comments
2.
U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records (nytimes.com)
373 points by daegloe on May 13, 2013 | 232 comments
3.
Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo (duetapp.com)
367 points by 23andwalnut on May 13, 2013 | 197 comments
4.
The Lethality of Loneliness (newrepublic.com)
321 points by bitsai on May 13, 2013 | 157 comments
5.
Macros in Python (github.com/lihaoyi)
300 points by lihaoyi on May 13, 2013 | 66 comments
6.
Show HN: Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby (ankane.github.io)
272 points by akane on May 13, 2013 | 61 comments
7.
Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets (mapbox.com)
270 points by incanus77 on May 13, 2013 | 48 comments
8.
10 Million Concurrent Connections – The Kernel is the Problem (highscalability.com)
257 points by snaky on May 13, 2013 | 92 comments
9.
Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM (veracode.com)
242 points by gluxon on May 13, 2013 | 40 comments
10.
15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
235 points by endijs on May 13, 2013 | 130 comments
11.
ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ in Space (time.com)
234 points by gokhan on May 13, 2013 | 42 comments
12.
Unbelievable (hackerfactor.com)
226 points by Garbage on May 13, 2013 | 107 comments
13.
PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released (postgresql.org)
191 points by sickpig on May 13, 2013 | 117 comments
14.
Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (2008) (okasaki.blogspot.ru)
170 points by ColinWright on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
15.
Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In” (law.harvard.edu)
172 points by soundsop on May 13, 2013 | 106 comments
16.
Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me (whoo.ps)
168 points by libovness on May 13, 2013 | 67 comments
17.
Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools (evanmiller.org)
160 points by EvanMiller on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
18.
The Archive of Interesting Code (keithschwarz.com)
158 points by objectivefs on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
19.
Weev placed in solitary confinement for tweeting from prison (dailydot.com)
151 points by bifrost on May 13, 2013 | 88 comments
20.
Bad as Shit (textfiles.com)
143 points by rglover on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
21.
Subreddit connections (redditstuff.github.io)
134 points by jashmenn on May 13, 2013 | 33 comments
22.
Akiyoshi's illusion pages (ritsumei.ac.jp)
126 points by rangibaby on May 13, 2013 | 15 comments
23.
Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined (thegenesisblock.com)
125 points by tjaerv on May 13, 2013 | 102 comments
24.
Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe (ap.org)
122 points by _vvdf on May 13, 2013 | 58 comments
25.
What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video] (mattcutts.com)
117 points by fryed7 on May 13, 2013 | 89 comments
26.
My last Android app sales figures and why it's still great to start a mobile app (edward-kim.com)
114 points by barredo on May 13, 2013 | 25 comments
27.
How “We’re booked” was ruining our business (bigswing.squarespace.com)
111 points by RickDT on May 13, 2013 | 39 comments
28.
A Lesson Learned as a Technical Founder: Sell First, Build Later (framebase.io)
107 points by vu0tran on May 13, 2013 | 41 comments
29.
Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed' (jgc.org)
101 points by jgrahamc on May 13, 2013 | 21 comments
30.
'Brave' creator blasts Disney for 'blatant sexism' in princess makeover (marinij.com)
96 points by DiabloD3 on May 13, 2013 | 138 comments

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