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1. Creating Shazam in Java (redcode.nl)
295 points by freefrag on May 17, 2013 | 43 comments
2. Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million (chicagogrid.com)
280 points by lenkendall on May 17, 2013 | 163 comments
3. Bright Explosion on the Moon (nasa.gov)
277 points by ColinWright on May 17, 2013 | 61 comments
4. Fish shell 2.0 (ridiculousfish.com)
272 points by siteshwar on May 17, 2013 | 175 comments
5. Open source is not a war zone (no-ip.org)
244 points by oneandoneis2 on May 17, 2013 | 92 comments
6. The theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (muppetlabs.com)
228 points by gjm11 on May 17, 2013 | 126 comments
7. Welcome to Google Island (wired.com)
182 points by scholia on May 17, 2013 | 90 comments
8. Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) (cnn.com)
160 points by pain_perdu on May 17, 2013 | 116 comments
9. At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom (nytimes.com)
151 points by nickbilton on May 17, 2013 | 179 comments
10. Capacitor plague (wikipedia.org)
138 points by llambda on May 17, 2013 | 62 comments
11. Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to IntelliJ (twitter.com/guw)
128 points by marpalmin on May 17, 2013 | 128 comments
12. Meta: The Most Advanced Augmented Reality Interface (kickstarter.com)
128 points by bensandcastle on May 17, 2013 | 83 comments
13. Coinpunk - Run your own Bitcoin wallet service (coinpunk.org)
125 points by kyledrake on May 17, 2013 | 37 comments
14. Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop (arstechnica.com)
125 points by shawndumas on May 17, 2013 | 54 comments
15. Vim hall of honour (vim.org)
122 points by stratosvoukel on May 17, 2013 | 47 comments
16. Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade (economist.com)
118 points by patrickk on May 17, 2013 | 54 comments
17. Why Awk for AI? (1997) (plus.com)
117 points by mooreds on May 17, 2013 | 53 comments
18. Label.css – an easy way to label DOM elements (usablica.github.io)
115 points by hoseiin on May 17, 2013 | 27 comments
19. $100 Invested in 100 $1 Lottery Tickets (investinged.com)
111 points by magikbum on May 17, 2013 | 122 comments
20. Inside the seedy underworld of spammers and phishers (mailgun.com)
108 points by twakefield on May 17, 2013 | 49 comments
21. Why I have left Samsung (dream-force.com)
100 points by wsieroci on May 17, 2013 | 152 comments
22. EFF now accepting Bitcoin again (eff.org)
101 points by schoen on May 17, 2013 | 29 comments
23. Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft (arstechnica.com)
97 points by abdophoto on May 17, 2013 | 50 comments
24. Social login buttons aren't worth it (mailchimp.com)
87 points by damncabbage on May 17, 2013 | 69 comments
25. Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5 (techempower.com)
89 points by pfalls on May 17, 2013 | 57 comments
26. Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever (ostatic.com)
79 points by Garbage on May 17, 2013 | 32 comments
27. Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote (albertomoss.com)
78 points by albiabia on May 17, 2013 | 16 comments
28. Bookmarking is more complex than you think (dfernandez.me)
70 points by danielfernandez on May 17, 2013 | 28 comments
29. Source Code Typography (naildrivin5.com)
69 points by davetron5000 on May 17, 2013 | 65 comments
30. I have accepted a “part-time partner” role at Y Combinator (daltoncaldwell.com)
69 points by shawndumas on May 17, 2013 | 8 comments

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