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1. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy (greenheartgames.com)
551 points by ropiku on April 29, 2013 | 384 comments
2. My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me (trondblog.tumblr.com)
475 points by sverrejoh on April 29, 2013 | 233 comments
3. How I coded in 1985 (jgc.org)
470 points by jgrahamc on April 29, 2013 | 118 comments
4. Google Now on your iPhone and iPad (googleblog.blogspot.com)
329 points by nreece on April 29, 2013 | 223 comments
5. I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look (nice-map-urls.herokuapp.com)
305 points by captainbenises on April 29, 2013 | 128 comments
6. Black Start (wikipedia.org)
289 points by anthonyb on April 29, 2013 | 105 comments
7. Google releases some Glass source code (arstechnica.com)
283 points by coloneltcb on April 29, 2013 | 127 comments
8. Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time (ncsu.edu)
276 points by pjmorris on April 29, 2013 | 129 comments
9. Hurricane on Saturn (nasa.gov)
256 points by karolisd on April 29, 2013 | 51 comments
10. Get that job at Facebook (2012) (facebook.com)
194 points by sauravt on April 29, 2013 | 164 comments
11. Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 (cross-browser.org)
193 points by dherken on April 29, 2013 | 115 comments
12. The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick (coderwall.com)
185 points by creaktive on April 29, 2013 | 124 comments
13. India is drowning in its own excreta (scientificamerican.com)
181 points by ragsagar on April 29, 2013 | 130 comments
14. CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement (crapcha.com)
176 points by qdot76367 on April 29, 2013 | 67 comments
15. Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?
176 points by donohoe on April 29, 2013 | 55 comments
16. Please use git pull --rebase (coderwall.com)
178 points by bitsweet on April 29, 2013 | 114 comments
17. How I attacked a fellow student (cohney.info)
173 points by jmonegro on April 29, 2013 | 46 comments
18. Fix random few-second freezes in Mountain Lion (princeton.edu)
163 points by swombat on April 29, 2013 | 110 comments
19. Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues (designtaxi.com)
161 points by imwhimsical on April 29, 2013 | 92 comments
20. Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript (getprismatic.com)
162 points by zackzackzack on April 29, 2013 | 49 comments
21. iio Engine – A new HTML5 App Framework (gamedev.net)
148 points by stevewillensky on April 29, 2013 | 10 comments
22. The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage (theatlantic.com)
141 points by awwstn on April 29, 2013 | 123 comments
23. UK Government passes “Instagram Act” (theregister.co.uk)
138 points by choult on April 29, 2013 | 79 comments
24. John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died (wikipedia.org)
136 points by m0nastic on April 29, 2013 | 15 comments
25. How to get a job after your startup fails (jamesmaskell.co.uk)
125 points by jmaskell on April 29, 2013 | 41 comments
26. How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity (eff.org)
124 points by marioestrada on April 29, 2013 | 96 comments
27. [dupe] Ghost: The Future of Blogging (Node.js) (tryghost.org)
118 points by robhawkes on April 29, 2013 | 73 comments
28. Mozilla Accepting Applications for its Open Source Accelerator (webfwd.org)
121 points by breck on April 29, 2013 | 28 comments
29. Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository (gigaom.com)
118 points by eksith on April 29, 2013 | 79 comments
30. View the Universe in different wavelengths (cf.ac.uk)
114 points by stargazer-3 on April 29, 2013 | 28 comments

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