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1. Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully (scientificamerican.com)
313 points by ph0rque on May 19, 2013 | 303 comments
2. Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap (simonsfoundation.org)
278 points by nature24 on May 19, 2013 | 94 comments
3. Docker - Way better than a VM (github.com/dotcloud)
256 points by jonny_eh on May 19, 2013 | 84 comments
4. \d less efficient than [0-9] (stackoverflow.com)
252 points by mserdarsanli on May 19, 2013 | 75 comments
5. A Hacker News For Ideas (firespotting.com)
256 points by newernpguy on May 19, 2013 | 72 comments
6. Mercury Colonization (einstein-schrodinger.com)
232 points by rosser on May 19, 2013 | 125 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 | 175 comments
8. Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io)
200 points by tellarin on May 19, 2013 | 125 comments
9. Functional Programming in 5 Minutes (slid.es)
160 points by gsklee on May 19, 2013 | 81 comments
10. Wikileaks Release: Anakata Docs (wikileaks.org)
156 points by contingencies on May 19, 2013 | 36 comments
11. Your top 100 unix commands, for science (docs.google.com)
156 points by hackerpants on May 19, 2013 | 79 comments
12. Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs [video] (plus.google.com)
139 points by espeed on May 19, 2013 | 22 comments
13. jq - like sed for JSON data (stedolan.github.io)
132 points by gnosis on May 19, 2013 | 29 comments
14. How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011) (mixpanel.com)
135 points by zerr on May 19, 2013 | 43 comments
15. Introducing CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim (fredkschott.com)
126 points by jamesbritt on May 19, 2013 | 23 comments
16. I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson (theregister.co.uk)
107 points by moondowner on May 19, 2013 | 80 comments
17. Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance In The UK (techcrunch.com)
98 points by sinnerswing on May 19, 2013 | 56 comments
18. Bootstrap 3 is mobile-first (github.com/twitter)
100 points by storborg on May 19, 2013 | 28 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 | 92 comments
20. The $3B+ Exit Tumblr Could Have Had (daniellemorrill.com)
97 points by dmor on May 19, 2013 | 68 comments
21. The SEO Mistake That Wiped Out 80% of My Traffic (ecommercefuel.com)
93 points by amerf1 on May 19, 2013 | 51 comments
22. NetBSD 6.1 is Relased (netbsd.org)
87 points by dallagi on May 19, 2013 | 17 comments
23. U.S. Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands (computerworld.com)
77 points by biotech_anon on May 19, 2013 | 55 comments
24. First Glimpse into the Soul of a Tamagotchi (kwartzlab.ca)
76 points by austengary on May 19, 2013 | 10 comments
25. Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0 (joindiaspora.com)
76 points by potomak on May 19, 2013 | 63 comments
26. Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job (joshaust.in)
72 points by ntrepid8 on May 19, 2013 | 35 comments
27. Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx and Django (georgepsarakis.github.io)
69 points by gpsarakis on May 19, 2013 | 17 comments
28. Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities?
65 points by alashley on May 19, 2013 | 60 comments
29. Yahoo, please start with a Vulnerability Reward Program (nilsjuenemann.de)
66 points by nilsjuenemann on May 19, 2013 | 22 comments
30. The myth of Nazi efficiency (coffeecuphistory.wordpress.com)
60 points by antman on May 19, 2013 | 91 comments

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