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1. How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy (penny-arcade.com)
452 points by ssclafani on May 3, 2013 | 106 comments
2. I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something (taigeair.com)
442 points by taigeair on May 3, 2013 | 329 comments
3. Animated Vector Icons (livicons.com)
328 points by fady on May 3, 2013 | 55 comments
4. I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks (joshledgard.com)
325 points by westonh on May 3, 2013 | 62 comments
5. How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C (toptal.com)
267 points by crm416 on May 3, 2013 | 112 comments
6. Tesla Model S Suspension Walkaround (edmunds.com)
260 points by dmmalam on May 3, 2013 | 118 comments
7. Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine (nytimes.com)
259 points by g_h on May 3, 2013 | 93 comments
8. YC without being in YC (42floors.com)
205 points by djyaz1200 on May 3, 2013 | 41 comments
9. NeXT Computer (johnmirandaphoto.com)
195 points by nashequilibrium on May 3, 2013 | 109 comments
10. OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebration of 'Day Against DRM' (oreilly.com)
179 points by tchalla on May 3, 2013 | 58 comments
11. Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?
150 points by SeanDav on May 3, 2013 | 101 comments
12. BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 (eetimes.com)
146 points by ca98am79 on May 3, 2013 | 91 comments
13. Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine' (bbc.co.uk)
136 points by will_brown on May 3, 2013 | 68 comments
14. The world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun has been made (extremetech.com)
135 points by marshc1 on May 3, 2013 | 159 comments
15. How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison (businessinsider.com)
131 points by bocalogic on May 3, 2013 | 91 comments
16. Entrepreneurs are the New Labor (forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao)
115 points by chrismealy on May 3, 2013 | 90 comments
17. Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source (venturebeat.com)
115 points by gregpurtell on May 3, 2013 | 29 comments
18. The Whole Problem Is That There Is No Housing Boom In Silicon Valley (slate.com)
109 points by lxm on May 3, 2013 | 142 comments
19. "Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany (dpma.de)
102 points by 67726e on May 3, 2013 | 45 comments
20. Mock your HTTP responses to test your REST API (mocky.io)
93 points by yotsumi on May 3, 2013 | 55 comments
21. How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture (ryancarson.com)
93 points by ryancarson on May 3, 2013 | 55 comments
22. How NYC's first “director of analytics” revolutionized building inspections (slate.com)
88 points by murtali on May 3, 2013 | 8 comments
23. A Proposal: Renaming Backend/Frontend to Application/UI Developers (theothersideofcode.com)
80 points by zappan on May 3, 2013 | 72 comments
24. UNICEF: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes (theatlantic.com)
78 points by PankajGhosh on May 3, 2013 | 42 comments
25. Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard (damienkatz.net)
78 points by jamesmiller5 on May 3, 2013 | 27 comments
26. Poll: How much money have stock options brought you?
77 points by GuiA on May 3, 2013 | 68 comments
27. Why I Wear a Disco Ball (willwashburn.com)
75 points by willwashburn on May 3, 2013 | 68 comments
28. The Cult Of Positive Attitude and Always Saying Yes (meetingboy.com)
74 points by tamersalama on May 3, 2013 | 41 comments
29. Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse (samsaffron.com)
75 points by ppadron on May 3, 2013 | 37 comments
30. Chinese “spy” caught with NASA laptop full of porn, not secrets (arstechnica.com)
66 points by shawndumas on May 3, 2013 | 65 comments

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