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1.Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler (blog.mozilla.org)
248 points by barkingcat on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
2.URLs are for People, not Computers (not-implemented.com)
210 points by Kop on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
3.The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide (businessinsider.com)
210 points by chaz on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
4. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings (mediapreservation.wordpress.com)
204 points by gbaygon on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
5.Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is? (serverfault.com)
200 points by usea on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
6.Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop (alienware.com)
195 points by onosendai on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
7. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
7.In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree (aarongreenspan.com)
194 points by thinkcomp on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
8.Web Framework Benchmarks Round 2 (techempower.com)
193 points by pfalls on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
9.Introduction to x64 Assembly (intel.com)
176 points by AndreyKarpov on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 76 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.Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps (jakelevine.me)
167 points by alexmr on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
11.Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com (eff.org)
163 points by leephillips on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
12.Homeless in Silicon Valley (billmoyers.com)
156 points by lavrentia on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 142 comments [ext]
13. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.There are no 10x developers, but there are 1/10 ones (techfounder.net)
154 points by pytrin on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: Pinry, a self-hosted Pinterest (getpinry.com)
140 points by kklimonda on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
15.List out of Lambda (stevelosh.com)
136 points by motter on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
16. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
16.Zombie VCs (daniellemorrill.com)
134 points by jayzalowitz on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
17.Updated Packages – Python 3.3 (ubuntu.com)
135 points by Goranek on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
18.Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? (bitcointalk.org)
132 points by dirtyaura on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
19. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
19.Everything I know about design I learned playing Starcraft (quizlet.com)
130 points by asuth on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
20.Google Spell goes down and no one notices (brokentone.com)
123 points by brokentone on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
21.Coinbase Response: Data On Merchant Pages (coinbase.com)
124 points by sethbannon on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
22. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 593 days ago | hide | 76 comments
22.Bitcoin makes journalists say stupid things (self-evident.org)
114 points by cs702 on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
23.I Bought a Bitcoin (nymag.com)
110 points by benwoody on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
24.Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? (gamasutra.com)
110 points by ttuominen on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.Bitcoin Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State (bloomberg.com)
100 points by dmitriy_ko on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
26.AMI-Bios Sourcecode and UEFI Signing Key leaked? (adamcaudill.com)
93 points by mablae on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: Pandas, Numpy, and SciPy users can now access our over 4M datasets (quandl.com)
93 points by seanrwcrawford on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
28. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
28.We Can Do Better (ea.com)
90 points by BIackSwan on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: How I built a trading signal by scraping Nasdaq for short interest (quantopian.com)
89 points by fawce on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
30.119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st (daniellemorrill.com)
84 points by dmor on April 5, 2013 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
31. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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