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1.		Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million (chicagogrid.com)
		280 points by lenkendall on May 17, 2013 \| 163 comments
2.		Bright Explosion on the Moon (nasa.gov)
		277 points by ColinWright on May 17, 2013 \| 61 comments
3.		Fish shell 2.0 (ridiculousfish.com)
		272 points by siteshwar on May 17, 2013 \| 175 comments
4.		Open source is not a war zone (no-ip.org)
		244 points by oneandoneis2 on May 17, 2013 \| 92 comments
5.		The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (muppetlabs.com)
		228 points by gjm11 on May 17, 2013 \| 126 comments
6.		Welcome to Google Island (wired.com)
		182 points by scholia on May 17, 2013 \| 90 comments
7.		Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) (cnn.com)
		160 points by pain_perdu on May 17, 2013 \| 116 comments
8.		At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom (nytimes.com)
		151 points by nickbilton on May 17, 2013 \| 179 comments
9.		Capacitor plague (wikipedia.org)
		138 points by llambda on May 17, 2013 \| 62 comments
10.		Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ (twitter.com/guw)
		128 points by marpalmin on May 17, 2013 \| 128 comments
11.		Meta: The Most Advanced Augmented Reality Interface (kickstarter.com)
		128 points by bensandcastle on May 17, 2013 \| 83 comments
12.		Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop (arstechnica.com)
		125 points by shawndumas on May 17, 2013 \| 54 comments
13.		Coinpunk - Run your own Bitcoin wallet service (coinpunk.org)
		125 points by kyledrake on May 17, 2013 \| 37 comments
14.		Vim hall of honour (vim.org)
		122 points by stratosvoukel on May 17, 2013 \| 47 comments
15.		Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade (economist.com)
		118 points by patrickk on May 17, 2013 \| 54 comments
16.		Why Awk for AI? (1997) (plus.com)
		117 points by mooreds on May 17, 2013 \| 53 comments
17.		Label.css – an easy way to label DOM elements (usablica.github.io)
		115 points by hoseiin on May 17, 2013 \| 27 comments
18.		$100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets (investinged.com)
		111 points by magikbum on May 17, 2013 \| 122 comments
19.		Inside the seedy underworld of spammers and phishers (mailgun.com)
		108 points by twakefield on May 17, 2013 \| 49 comments
20.		Why I have left Samsung (dream-force.com)
		100 points by wsieroci on May 17, 2013 \| 152 comments
21.		EFF now accepting Bitcoin again (eff.org)
		101 points by schoen on May 17, 2013 \| 29 comments
22.		Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft (arstechnica.com)
		97 points by abdophoto on May 17, 2013 \| 50 comments
23.		Social login buttons aren't worth it (mailchimp.com)
		87 points by damncabbage on May 17, 2013 \| 69 comments
24.		Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5 (techempower.com)
		89 points by pfalls on May 17, 2013 \| 57 comments
25.		Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever (ostatic.com)
		79 points by Garbage on May 17, 2013 \| 32 comments
26.		Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote (albertomoss.com)
		78 points by albiabia on May 17, 2013 \| 16 comments
27.		Bookmarking is more complex than you think (dfernandez.me)
		70 points by danielfernandez on May 17, 2013 \| 28 comments
28.		Source Code Typography (naildrivin5.com)
		69 points by davetron5000 on May 17, 2013 \| 65 comments
29.		I have accepted a “part-time partner” role at Y Combinator (daltoncaldwell.com)
		69 points by shawndumas on May 17, 2013 \| 8 comments
30.		Australian government accused of sneaking in web filter (brisbanetimes.com.au)
		68 points by obtino on May 17, 2013 \| 6 comments
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