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1. Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
459 points by codegeek on May 16, 2013 | 284 comments
2. Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year (arstechnica.com)
449 points by jfb on May 16, 2013 | 115 comments
3. What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? (eschnou.com)
425 points by eschnou on May 16, 2013 | 248 comments
4. Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW) (dresdencodak.tumblr.com)
354 points by angersock on May 16, 2013 | 89 comments
5. Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help (pastebin.com)
334 points by worstorbest on May 16, 2013 | 163 comments
6. Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11 (github.com/mothran)
331 points by mothran on May 16, 2013 | 55 comments
7. Homemade GPS Receiver (demon.co.uk)
299 points by elemeno on May 16, 2013 | 66 comments
8. D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge (scottaaronson.com)
267 points by YAYERKA on May 16, 2013 | 92 comments
9. A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life (businessinsider.com)
265 points by awwstn on May 16, 2013 | 169 comments
10. Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox (googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk)
260 points by duckyflip on May 16, 2013 | 137 comments
11. Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google (polymer-project.org)
239 points by bpierre on May 16, 2013 | 117 comments
12. Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service (glassbalcony.tumblr.com)
237 points by _csoz on May 16, 2013 | 98 comments
13. Not Having A Real Job (mkrecny.com)
233 points by mkrecny on May 16, 2013 | 126 comments
14. How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection (mentalfloss.com)
209 points by MarlonPro on May 16, 2013 | 26 comments
15. RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements (rethinkdb.com)
212 points by josegonzalez on May 16, 2013 | 102 comments
16. AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game (aggregateknowledge.com)
187 points by rgrzywinski on May 16, 2013 | 21 comments
17. Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew (blog.ycombinator.com)
177 points by michael_nielsen on May 16, 2013 | 62 comments
18. FreeCiv now playable as HTML5 game, including on mobile devices (freeciv.org)
151 points by danso on May 16, 2013 | 26 comments
19. Memory Allocators 101 (jamesgolick.com)
142 points by bradly on May 16, 2013 | 21 comments
20. Genius of our time (domleca.com)
133 points by SimonDawlat on May 16, 2013 | 17 comments
21. Chrome’s requestAutocomplete() (alexmaccaw.com)
130 points by teej on May 16, 2013 | 67 comments
22. Mark 1 FORTH Computer (demon.co.uk)
122 points by Cieplak on May 16, 2013 | 9 comments
23. New Google+ is beautiful? (alexdong.com)
118 points by alexdong on May 16, 2013 | 78 comments
24. Exploiting a Go Binary (codearcana.com)
112 points by fabriceleal on May 16, 2013 | 31 comments
25. Google Buys a Quantum Computer (nytimes.com)
107 points by sciwiz on May 16, 2013 | 56 comments
26. How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model (cubehero.com)
106 points by iamwil on May 16, 2013 | 11 comments
27. PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more (lwn.net)
97 points by sickpig on May 16, 2013 | 20 comments
28. Google+ Games is shutting down (support.google.com)
97 points by jmillikin on May 16, 2013 | 109 comments
29. F# on FreeBSD (msdn.com)
92 points by profquail on May 16, 2013 | 14 comments
30. What I wish systems researchers would work on (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
93 points by ivanist on May 16, 2013 | 57 comments

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