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1. Skype account hijack technique may affect all users (skype.com)
265 points by dewey on April 28, 2013 | 66 comments
2. After 25 years in jail, the Internet blew my mind (salon.com)
250 points by l33tbro on April 28, 2013 | 130 comments
3. If this were a pill, you’d do anything to get it (washingtonpost.com)
243 points by vellum on April 28, 2013 | 142 comments
4. Collection of the best fonts for programming (slant.co)
212 points by hbbio on April 28, 2013 | 140 comments
5. Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament (falkvinge.net)
162 points by tellarin on April 28, 2013 | 40 comments
6. 'Flat design'-inspired Google Maps using the API (jsfiddle.net)
158 points by muratmutlu on April 28, 2013 | 51 comments
7. Girl unaware all her pictures are sent to journalist (translate.google.com)
148 points by lordlarm on April 28, 2013 | 177 comments
8. Edis: a Redis for larger-than-RAM datasets (inaka.github.io)
147 points by nmcfarl on April 28, 2013 | 58 comments
9. Flat UI colors (flatuicolors.com)
135 points by ekpyrotic on April 28, 2013 | 64 comments
10. The Beauty of Concurrency in Go (pragprog.com)
133 points by iand on April 28, 2013 | 90 comments
11. Build your own summary tool (thetokenizer.com)
131 points by shlomib on April 28, 2013 | 22 comments
12. Etckeeper lets you store changes in /etc to git (github.com/joeyh)
107 points by dz0ny on April 28, 2013 | 38 comments
13. The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada (huffingtonpost.ca)
101 points by subsystem on April 28, 2013 | 105 comments
14. I long for the future where I can safely assume my passwords are stolen (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
96 points by jenandre on April 28, 2013 | 93 comments
15. CSS3 Traveling Through Space (codepen.io)
95 points by zhs on April 28, 2013 | 22 comments
16. Immutable URLs (medium.com/strong-opinions-lightly-held)
91 points by swombat on April 28, 2013 | 45 comments
17. Generational Garbage Collection for Ruby 2.1 (ruby-lang.org)
85 points by ksec on April 28, 2013 | 16 comments
18. Wall Street Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k) (wallstreetonparade.com)
83 points by house9-2 on April 28, 2013 | 103 comments
19. E-Cigarettes Bring Smokers Back Inside, For Now (npr.org)
84 points by brilliantday on April 28, 2013 | 191 comments
20. With few other outlets, inmates review prisons on Yelp (washingtonpost.com)
78 points by ted0 on April 28, 2013 | 19 comments
21. Show HN: Weekend project - HTML5 Game Engines: which is right for you? (html5gameengine.com)
75 points by austinhallock on April 28, 2013 | 19 comments
22. I Finally Deleted my LinkedIn Account (thomashunter.name)
71 points by tlhunter on April 28, 2013 | 60 comments
23. Clojure Cup 2013 (clojurecup.com)
69 points by timgluz on April 28, 2013 | 1 comment
24. Wildfire.py - Self-modifying Python bytecode (github.com/0vercl0k)
66 points by adulau on April 28, 2013 | 9 comments
25. Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud (nytimes.com)
65 points by gruseom on April 28, 2013 | 43 comments
26. Researchers find a completely new DNA binding protein (arstechnica.com)
65 points by darxius on April 28, 2013 | 10 comments
27. If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated? (theatlantic.com)
61 points by colinismyname on April 28, 2013 | 71 comments
28. How to stop recruiters posing as applicants (twitter.com/richardhyland)
57 points by ColinWright on April 28, 2013 | 67 comments
29. Zach Braff, Amanda Palmer, and the New 90-9-1 Rule (dlewis.net)
54 points by DanLivesHere on April 28, 2013 | 49 comments
30. Show HN: Never watch movies alone (gotcompany.net)
54 points by Danilka on April 28, 2013 | 37 comments

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