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1.		Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully (scientificamerican.com)
		313 points by ph0rque on May 19, 2013 \| 303 comments
2.		Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap (simonsfoundation.org)
		278 points by nature24 on May 19, 2013 \| 94 comments
3.		Docker - Way better than a VM (github.com/dotcloud)
		256 points by jonny_eh on May 19, 2013 \| 84 comments
4.		\d less efficient than [0-9] (stackoverflow.com)
		252 points by mserdarsanli on May 19, 2013 \| 75 comments
5.		A Hacker News For Ideas (firespotting.com)
		256 points by newernpguy on May 19, 2013 \| 72 comments
6.		Mercury Colonization (einstein-schrodinger.com)
		232 points by rosser on May 19, 2013 \| 125 comments
7.		The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr (twitter.com/wsj)
		208 points by gbuckingham89 on May 19, 2013 \| 175 comments
8.		Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io)
		200 points by tellarin on May 19, 2013 \| 125 comments
9.		Functional Programming in 5 Minutes (slid.es)
		160 points by gsklee on May 19, 2013 \| 81 comments
10.		Your top 100 unix commands, for science (docs.google.com)
		156 points by hackerpants on May 19, 2013 \| 79 comments
11.		Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs (wikileaks.org)
		156 points by contingencies on May 19, 2013 \| 36 comments
12.		Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs [video] (plus.google.com)
		139 points by espeed on May 19, 2013 \| 22 comments
13.		jq - like sed for JSON data (stedolan.github.io)
		132 points by gnosis on May 19, 2013 \| 29 comments
14.		How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011) (mixpanel.com)
		135 points by zerr on May 19, 2013 \| 43 comments
15.		Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim (fredkschott.com)
		126 points by jamesbritt on May 19, 2013 \| 23 comments
16.		I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson (theregister.co.uk)
		107 points by moondowner on May 19, 2013 \| 80 comments
17.		Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance In The UK (techcrunch.com)
		98 points by sinnerswing on May 19, 2013 \| 56 comments
18.		Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first (github.com/twitter)
		100 points by storborg on May 19, 2013 \| 28 comments
19.		Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		97 points by tambourine_man on May 19, 2013 \| 92 comments
20.		The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had (daniellemorrill.com)
		97 points by dmor on May 19, 2013 \| 68 comments
21.		The SEO Mistake That Wiped Out 80% of My Traffic (ecommercefuel.com)
		93 points by amerf1 on May 19, 2013 \| 51 comments
22.		NetBSD 6.1 is Relased (netbsd.org)
		87 points by dallagi on May 19, 2013 \| 17 comments
23.		U.S. Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands (computerworld.com)
		77 points by biotech_anon on May 19, 2013 \| 55 comments
24.		Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0 (joindiaspora.com)
		76 points by potomak on May 19, 2013 \| 63 comments
25.		First Glimpse into the Soul of a Tamagotchi (kwartzlab.ca)
		76 points by austengary on May 19, 2013 \| 10 comments
26.		Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job (joshaust.in)
		72 points by ntrepid8 on May 19, 2013 \| 35 comments
27.		Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx and Django (georgepsarakis.github.io)
		69 points by gpsarakis on May 19, 2013 \| 17 comments
28.		Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities?
		65 points by alashley on May 19, 2013 \| 60 comments
29.		Yahoo, please start with a Vulnerability Reward Program (nilsjuenemann.de)
		66 points by nilsjuenemann on May 19, 2013 \| 22 comments
30.		The myth of Nazi efficiency (coffeecuphistory.wordpress.com)
		60 points by antman on May 19, 2013 \| 91 comments
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