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1. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is (qz.com)
394 points by angelohuang on May 12, 2013 | 156 comments
2. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)
213 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 | 33 comments
3. Samsung is hurting Android (trustedreviews.com)
193 points by YeahKIA on May 12, 2013 | 111 comments
4. 0 second visits according to Google Analytics (paweljaniak.co.za)
168 points by vidyesh on May 12, 2013 | 57 comments
5. Why education startups do not succeed (avichal.wordpress.com)
153 points by sajid on May 12, 2013 | 45 comments
6. Learn Web Penetration Testing The Right Way (pentesterlab.com)
151 points by morphics on May 12, 2013 | 24 comments
7. How a nation of junkies went cold turkey (newrepublic.com)
145 points by krakensden on May 12, 2013 | 110 comments
8. Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was (messynessychic.com)
138 points by ttuominen on May 12, 2013 | 23 comments
9. The Startup Story I Want To Hear (whattofix.com)
139 points by DanielBMarkham on May 12, 2013 | 62 comments
10. Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama' (theweek.com)
135 points by Lightning on May 12, 2013 | 86 comments
11. Angry young Indians: What a waste (economist.com)
130 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 | 108 comments
12. The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) (stroustrup.com)
130 points by lispython on May 12, 2013 | 152 comments
13. Call Mom Maybe (blog.twitter.com)
128 points by kirillzubovsky on May 12, 2013 | 35 comments
14. Should you submit to Hacker News? (lahiri.me)
127 points by mayank on May 12, 2013 | 58 comments
15. Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL (stackednotion.com)
124 points by edtechdev on May 12, 2013 | 74 comments
16. A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel (neosmart.net)
116 points by ComputerGuru on May 12, 2013 | 87 comments
17. Engineering the $325,000 Burger (nytimes.com)
109 points by swampthing on May 12, 2013 | 122 comments
18. How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich (theatlantic.com)
102 points by georgefox on May 12, 2013 | 65 comments
19. Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jaunesarmiento.me)
106 points by jamesflorentino on May 12, 2013 | 20 comments
20. How Facebook ruined comments (at least for me) (time.com)
98 points by technologizer on May 12, 2013 | 41 comments
21. Declarative Data Visualization library (akngs.tumblr.com)
91 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 | 9 comments
22. Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby (gist.github.com)
87 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 | 28 comments
23. Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer (pbrisbin.com)
83 points by mzehrer on May 12, 2013 | 78 comments
24. HTML5 vs Flash Video: Battery performance analysis (ne.ro)
81 points by notregistering on May 12, 2013 | 20 comments
25. Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects (vt.edu)
75 points by _ankit_ on May 12, 2013 | 23 comments
26. Google SMS search has been shut down (productforums.google.com)
75 points by duked on May 12, 2013 | 55 comments
27. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class (salon.com)
74 points by anielsen on May 12, 2013 | 62 comments
28. HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? (quantisan.com)
77 points by plam on May 12, 2013 | 71 comments
29. How To Win At Email (nikilster.com)
76 points by nikilster on May 12, 2013 | 48 comments
30. Mir in Kubuntu (martin-graesslin.com)
71 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 12, 2013 | 33 comments

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