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1.Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox? [ext]
470 points by paulrouget on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 347 comments [ext]
2.Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa (forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam)
382 points by memset on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 287 comments [ext]
3.Vim Git Gutter (github.com/airblade)
371 points by glazskunrukitis on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
4. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise (coffitivity.com)
337 points by hangoverhammers on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 205 comments [ext]
5.Namecheap now officially accepts Bitcoin (namecheap.com)
329 points by redegg on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
6.Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers (wired.com)
239 points by wyclif on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
7. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
7.The Humble Bundle with Android 5 (humblebundle.com)
200 points by hugoc on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
8.A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist (natethayer.wordpress.com)
194 points by duck on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
9.Twenty dollars in an envelope (justinjackson.ca)
195 points by mijustin on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
10. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
10.Real pixel coding (2011) (iquilezles.org)
188 points by dshankar on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
11.The Start-Up Trap (8thlight.com)
149 points by filpen on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: My weekend project, Remojōbo: a remote job board for web nerds (remojobo.com)
150 points by charliepark on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.The Myth of Japanese Longevity (asserttrue.blogspot.com)
144 points by techdog on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
14.Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf (yahoo.com)
137 points by mhb on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
15.How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime (balancedpayments.com)
131 points by mahmoudimus on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.The ways of Wayland (lwn.net)
126 points by iso-8859-1 on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
17.How I ended up with Mac (tirania.org)
126 points by gebe on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
18.Why Haskell Is Worth Learning (atomicobject.com)
125 points by ColinWright on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails (litmus.com)
111 points by muan on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
20.The early 2013 retina MBP 15” have faulty firmware/hardware (aniggler.tumblr.com)
112 points by niggler on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
21.R and pandas and what I've learned about each (yhathq.com)
103 points by rouli on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)
100 points by vseloved on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
23.Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months (bitcoincharts.com)
87 points by oleganza on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
24.Monads explained by Eric Lippert (ericlippert.com)
82 points by tucaz on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.You aren't getting any better (robertheaton.com)
81 points by robheaton on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
26.Secretive Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks (eff.org)
74 points by zoowar on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
27.A Manifesto For Error Reporting (drmaciver.com)
72 points by andyjpb on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.Last Wishes of a Dying "General" (jqpublic-blog.com)
69 points by bkohlmann on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
29.Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta) (developers.google.com)
70 points by igrigorik on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
30.The money of big data is in analytics (dendory.net)
66 points by dendory on March 5, 2013 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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