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1. Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line (wcvb.com)
872 points by recoiledsnake on April 15, 2013 | 586 comments
2. Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (slashdot.org)
753 points by DiabloD3 on April 15, 2013 | 404 comments
3. News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (guardiannews.com)
511 points by mycodebreaks on April 15, 2013 | 236 comments
4. Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men (penny-arcade.com)
365 points by bconway on April 15, 2013 | 170 comments
5. Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system (scarcecapital.com)
301 points by zygomega on April 15, 2013 | 190 comments
6. Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It (sugarrae.com)
290 points by krisroadruck on April 15, 2013 | 228 comments
7. Scaling Pinterest - From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years (highscalability.com)
261 points by aespinoza on April 15, 2013 | 45 comments
8. Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions (google.org)
246 points by danso on April 15, 2013 | 32 comments
9. How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'? (phillipecantin.blogspot.com)
235 points by sonergonul on April 15, 2013 | 68 comments
10. The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment (theatlantic.com)
228 points by vellum on April 15, 2013 | 342 comments
11. How to work with Software Engineers (kennethnorton.com)
218 points by SanderMak on April 15, 2013 | 88 comments
12. A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles (ietf.org)
202 points by johns on April 15, 2013 | 27 comments
13. You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com)
198 points by romain_g on April 15, 2013 | 64 comments
14. HTML5 Video at Netflix (netflix.com)
176 points by Lightning on April 15, 2013 | 127 comments
15. Recorded mouse positions replayed over music video [NSFW] (donottouch.org)
172 points by mm_alex on April 15, 2013 | 53 comments
16. John Cleese on How to Make Your Life More Creative (brainpickings.org)
176 points by AndrewDucker on April 15, 2013 | 16 comments
17. How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future (microsoft.com)
167 points by raghavsethi on April 15, 2013 | 93 comments
18. Tests Are Overhyped (sturgill.github.io)
149 points by sturgill on April 15, 2013 | 149 comments
19. Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
151 points by Pasanpr on April 15, 2013 | 42 comments
20. Go at Google [video] (infoq.com)
143 points by DanielRibeiro on April 15, 2013 | 58 comments
21. This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
133 points by mikecane on April 15, 2013 | 101 comments
22. MRI's Method Caches (jamesgolick.com)
121 points by jamesgolick on April 15, 2013 | 15 comments
23. The Lambda Papers (readscheme.org)
110 points by mr_tyzic on April 15, 2013 | 10 comments
24. Why Does Music Feel So Good? (nationalgeographic.com)
104 points by jkat on April 15, 2013 | 50 comments
25. Esquivalience (wikipedia.org)
96 points by arb99 on April 15, 2013 | 25 comments
26. FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire (techcrunch.com)
93 points by shrig94 on April 15, 2013 | 58 comments
27. Lisp Is Too Powerful (c2.com)
94 points by felipebueno on April 15, 2013 | 94 comments
28. Moore's Law and the Origin of Life (technologyreview.com)
92 points by tocomment on April 15, 2013 | 31 comments
29. Alice strikes back against Bob's 'reverse dictionary' (jgc.org)
91 points by jgrahamc on April 15, 2013 | 14 comments
30. Designing Open Source (medium.com/words-about-design)
91 points by jongold on April 15, 2013 | 31 comments

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