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31.		Writing a Vi-like Graphics Editor in Racket (jeapostrophe.github.io)
		88 points by p4bl0 on May 14, 2013 \| 22 comments
32.		Apple using moving letters as captcha (apple.com)
		90 points by filleokus on May 14, 2013 \| 78 comments
33.		[dupe] Atari Breakout - Google image search (google.com)
		87 points by morphics on May 14, 2013 \| 19 comments
34.		Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (popularmechanics.com)
		88 points by Libertatea on May 14, 2013 \| 69 comments
35.		Introducing the Square Stand (squareup.com)
		86 points by goughjustin on May 14, 2013 \| 61 comments
36.		Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data (scrapinghub.com)
		86 points by reinhardt on May 14, 2013 \| 115 comments
37.		Saurik releases Substrate for Android (cydiasubstrate.com)
		80 points by tar on May 14, 2013 \| 33 comments
38.		Stripe launches beta in Ireland (twitter.com/paulsavage)
		81 points by blackdogie on May 14, 2013 \| 51 comments
39.		Only 200 Startups Per Year End Up Mattering and Most of them Aren't in Tech (streetwise.co)
		74 points by smit on May 14, 2013 \| 25 comments
40.		BBM for iOS and Android to Launch This Summer (blackberry.com)
		73 points by fudged71 on May 14, 2013 \| 56 comments
41.		WalmartLabs acquires Tasty Labs (walmartlabs.blogspot.com)
		71 points by jazzychad on May 14, 2013 \| 24 comments
42.		My experience with Firefox OS (o2.com)
		69 points by moretoitsurely on May 14, 2013 \| 12 comments
43.		The elusive universal Web bytecode (mozakai.blogspot.com)
		64 points by espadrine on May 14, 2013 \| 60 comments
44.		Infinite number of prime pairs within 70 million of each other (plus.google.com)
		62 points by archgoon on May 14, 2013 \| 8 comments
45.		Department of Homeland Security Bans Dwolla Transfers To or From Mt. Gox (dropboxusercontent.com)
		58 points by dsimmons on May 14, 2013 \| 13 comments
46.		Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application (aws.typepad.com)
		58 points by Lightning on May 14, 2013 \| 14 comments
47.		HN no longer supporting SPDY (spdycheck.org)
		55 points by Mojah on May 14, 2013 \| 62 comments
48.		Coffee with Tim Cook finishes at $610,000 (charitybuzz.com)
		53 points by martin_ on May 14, 2013 \| 44 comments
49.		Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz (stephenwolfram.com)
		52 points by mh_ on May 14, 2013 \| 15 comments
50.		Ask HN: Would you hire me?
		50 points by FajitaNachos on May 14, 2013 \| 71 comments
51.		Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (vimeo.com)
		47 points by siavosh on May 14, 2013 \| 3 comments
52.		Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming (2009) (noss.github.io)
		46 points by tosh on May 14, 2013 \| 19 comments
53.		Show HN: ApplyBin - hiring as easy as email, made with Meteor (applybin.com)
		48 points by gfloyd on May 14, 2013 \| 24 comments
54.		Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem (arxiv.org)
		43 points by sew on May 14, 2013 \| 3 comments
55.		Etsy shut down Brendan Byrne's shop (Part 2) (wtfbyrne.tumblr.com)
		42 points by jrajav on May 14, 2013 \| 2 comments
56.		Square Debuts its Latest Hardware, a $299 Card Swiper for iPad Registers (techcrunch.com)
		42 points by wlue on May 14, 2013 \| 45 comments
57.		Tell HN: I did it (thank you)
		36 points by Jem on May 14, 2013 \| 12 comments
58.		Show HN: Moscow banned Gay Pride for 100 years, so we invite them here instead (gowest2013.com)
		37 points by gori on May 14, 2013 \| 27 comments
59.		Exits and Assholes (downie.com.au)
		37 points by toast76 on May 14, 2013 \| 23 comments
60.		Builders bulldoze Mayan Pyramid (msn.com)
		36 points by codecurve on May 14, 2013 \| 16 comments
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