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1. Go 1.1 is released (golang.org)
484 points by enneff on May 13, 2013 | 290 comments
2. A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (thoughtcrime.org)
459 points by bbatsell on May 13, 2013 | 111 comments
3. U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records (nytimes.com)
373 points by daegloe on May 13, 2013 | 232 comments
4. Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo (duetapp.com)
367 points by 23andwalnut on May 13, 2013 | 197 comments
5. The Lethality of Loneliness (newrepublic.com)
321 points by bitsai on May 13, 2013 | 157 comments
6. Macros in Python (github.com/lihaoyi)
300 points by lihaoyi on May 13, 2013 | 66 comments
7. Show HN: Create Javascript charts with one line of Ruby (ankane.github.io)
272 points by akane on May 13, 2013 | 61 comments
8. Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets (mapbox.com)
270 points by incanus77 on May 13, 2013 | 48 comments
9. 10 Million Concurrent Connections – The Kernel is the Problem (highscalability.com)
257 points by snaky on May 13, 2013 | 92 comments
10. Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM (veracode.com)
242 points by gluxon on May 13, 2013 | 40 comments
11. 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
235 points by endijs on May 13, 2013 | 130 comments
12. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ in Space (time.com)
234 points by gokhan on May 13, 2013 | 42 comments
13. Unbelievable (hackerfactor.com)
226 points by Garbage on May 13, 2013 | 107 comments
14. PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released (postgresql.org)
191 points by sickpig on May 13, 2013 | 117 comments
15. Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (2008) (okasaki.blogspot.ru)
170 points by ColinWright on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
16. Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In” (law.harvard.edu)
172 points by soundsop on May 13, 2013 | 106 comments
17. Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me (whoo.ps)
168 points by libovness on May 13, 2013 | 67 comments
18. Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools (evanmiller.org)
160 points by EvanMiller on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
19. The Archive of Interesting Code (keithschwarz.com)
158 points by objectivefs on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
20. Weev placed in solitary confinement for tweeting from prison (dailydot.com)
151 points by bifrost on May 13, 2013 | 88 comments
21. Bad as Shit (textfiles.com)
143 points by rglover on May 13, 2013 | 24 comments
22. Subreddit connections (redditstuff.github.io)
134 points by jashmenn on May 13, 2013 | 33 comments
23. Akiyoshi's illusion pages (ritsumei.ac.jp)
126 points by rangibaby on May 13, 2013 | 15 comments
24. Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined (thegenesisblock.com)
125 points by tjaerv on May 13, 2013 | 102 comments
25. Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe (ap.org)
122 points by _vvdf on May 13, 2013 | 58 comments
26. What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video] (mattcutts.com)
117 points by fryed7 on May 13, 2013 | 89 comments
27. My last Android app sales figures and why it's still great to start a mobile app (edward-kim.com)
114 points by barredo on May 13, 2013 | 25 comments
28. How “We’re booked” was ruining our business (bigswing.squarespace.com)
111 points by RickDT on May 13, 2013 | 39 comments
29. A Lesson Learned as a Technical Founder: Sell First, Build Later (framebase.io)
107 points by vu0tran on May 13, 2013 | 41 comments
30. Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed' (jgc.org)
101 points by jgrahamc on May 13, 2013 | 21 comments

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