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1. Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT (webkit.org)
491 points by panic on May 13, 2014 | 96 comments
2. ‘Alien’ creator H.R. Giger is dead (swissinfo.ch)
418 points by lox on May 13, 2014 | 67 comments
3. iMessage purgatory (adampash.com)
386 points by mortenjorck on May 13, 2014 | 170 comments
4. Octotree: the missing GitHub tree view (Chrome extension) (chrome.google.com)
362 points by yblu on May 13, 2014 | 106 comments
5. Computers are fast (jvns.ca)
315 points by bdcravens on May 13, 2014 | 154 comments
6. Source code of ASP.NET (github.com/aspnet)
291 points by wfjackson on May 13, 2014 | 99 comments
7. Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling (vox.com)
290 points by luu on May 13, 2014 | 53 comments
8. Xeer (wikipedia.org)
246 points by mazsa on May 13, 2014 | 117 comments
9. Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet (reuters.com)
247 points by kevcampb on May 13, 2014 | 205 comments
10. Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack (tbray.org)
250 points by kallus on May 13, 2014 | 27 comments
11. MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source (github.com/llk)
239 points by speakvisually on May 13, 2014 | 61 comments
12. Introducing Firebase Hosting (firebase.com)
220 points by jamest on May 13, 2014 | 75 comments
13. 3D Video Capture with Three Kinects (doc-ok.org)
188 points by phoboslab on May 13, 2014 | 40 comments
14. Ask HN: Can we get a "Show HN:" section
191 points by pumpkinattwelve on May 13, 2014 | 34 comments
15. Babun – A new Windows shell (babun.github.io)
180 points by blearyeyed on May 13, 2014 | 108 comments
16. Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time. (epochconverter.com)
170 points by ozh on May 13, 2014 | 57 comments
17. Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too (news.sciencemag.org)
163 points by robg on May 13, 2014 | 126 comments
18. GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow (instantclick.io)
156 points by dieulot on May 13, 2014 | 87 comments
19. Found after 500 years, the wreck of Columbus's flagship the Santa Maria (independent.co.uk)
146 points by adventured on May 13, 2014 | 52 comments
20. A Test for School Reform in Newark (newyorker.com)
141 points by savorypiano on May 13, 2014 | 232 comments
21. Metaprogramming for madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
134 points by leeoniya on May 13, 2014 | 12 comments
22. Scaling SQL with Redis (cramer.io)
125 points by mclarke on May 13, 2014 | 35 comments
23. Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong (a16z.com)
123 points by moritzplassnig on May 13, 2014 | 27 comments
24. "If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow. (thedailywyatt.wordpress.com)
108 points by tfang17 on May 13, 2014 | 134 comments
25. ‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald (nytimes.com)
119 points by duck on May 13, 2014 | 41 comments
26. Popular fish oil study deeply flawed, new research says (cbc.ca)
104 points by fraqed on May 13, 2014 | 112 comments
27. How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 2 (zenpayroll.com)
101 points by edawerd on May 13, 2014 | 34 comments
28. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (wikipedia.org)
103 points by rexreed on May 13, 2014 | 25 comments
29. The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification (visiondummy.com)
92 points by lucasrp on May 13, 2014 | 26 comments
30. [dupe] Tesla's relative asks Elon Musk for a donation to finish the Tesla Museum
91 points by TeMPOraL on May 13, 2014 | 39 comments

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