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1.Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully (scientificamerican.com)
313 points by ph0rque on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 303 comments [ext]
2.Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap (simonsfoundation.org)
278 points by nature24 on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
3.Docker - Way better than a VM (github.com/dotcloud)
256 points by jonny_eh on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
4. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.\d less efficient than [0-9] (stackoverflow.com)
252 points by mserdarsanli on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
5.A Hacker News For Ideas (firespotting.com)
256 points by newernpguy on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
6.Mercury Colonization (einstein-schrodinger.com)
232 points by rosser on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
7. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
7.The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for Tumblr (twitter.com/wsj)
208 points by gbuckingham89 on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
8.Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io)
200 points by tellarin on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
9.Functional Programming in 5 Minutes (slid.es)
160 points by gsklee on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Your top 100 unix commands, for science (docs.google.com)
156 points by hackerpants on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
11.Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs (wikileaks.org)
156 points by contingencies on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
12.Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs [video] (plus.google.com)
139 points by espeed on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
13. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
13.jq - like sed for JSON data (stedolan.github.io)
132 points by gnosis on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
14.How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011) (mixpanel.com)
135 points by zerr on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
15.Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim (fredkschott.com)
126 points by jamesbritt on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
16. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
16.I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson (theregister.co.uk)
107 points by moondowner on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
17.Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance In The UK (techcrunch.com)
98 points by sinnerswing on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
18.Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first (github.com/twitter)
100 points by storborg on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
19. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 15 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
97 points by tambourine_man on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
20.The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had (daniellemorrill.com)
97 points by dmor on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
21.The SEO Mistake That Wiped Out 80% of My Traffic (ecommercefuel.com)
93 points by amerf1 on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 16 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
22.NetBSD 6.1 is Relased (netbsd.org)
87 points by dallagi on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
23.U.S. Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands (computerworld.com)
77 points by biotech_anon on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
24.Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0 (joindiaspora.com)
76 points by potomak on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
25. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.First Glimpse into the Soul of a Tamagotchi (kwartzlab.ca)
76 points by austengary on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
26.Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job (joshaust.in)
72 points by ntrepid8 on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
27.Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx and Django (georgepsarakis.github.io)
69 points by gpsarakis on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
28. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities? [ext]
65 points by alashley on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
29.Yahoo, please start with a Vulnerability Reward Program (nilsjuenemann.de)
66 points by nilsjuenemann on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
30.The myth of Nazi efficiency (coffeecuphistory.wordpress.com)
60 points by antman on May 19, 2013 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
31. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments

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