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1. Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days (plentyoffish.wordpress.com)
483 points by markuspof on May 12, 2014 | 131 comments
2. Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character? (stackoverflow.com)
468 points by gioele on May 12, 2014 | 85 comments
3. Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript (playfuljs.com)
339 points by hunterloftis on May 12, 2014 | 56 comments
4. The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win (wired.com)
322 points by relampago on May 12, 2014 | 180 comments
5. Glenn Greenwald: The NSA tampers with US-made routers (theguardian.com)
317 points by not_dirnsa on May 12, 2014 | 136 comments
6. Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus (orionmagazine.org)
297 points by Snail_Commando on May 12, 2014 | 104 comments
7. Introducing ASP.NET vNext (hanselman.com)
252 points by ragesh on May 12, 2014 | 205 comments
8. Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (mako.cc)
229 points by martey on May 12, 2014 | 103 comments
9. Mkdown (mkdown.com)
223 points by jack7890 on May 12, 2014 | 56 comments
10. Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos (nytimes.com)
219 points by applecore on May 12, 2014 | 266 comments
11. Distributed Systems and the End of the API (quilt.org)
209 points by mcms on May 12, 2014 | 94 comments
12. Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone (xip.io)
206 points by ozh on May 12, 2014 | 69 comments
13. Unicode in Python 3 (pocoo.org)
207 points by buttscicles on May 12, 2014 | 96 comments
14. Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (yosefk.com)
198 points by smackay on May 12, 2014 | 168 comments
15. The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality (richg42.blogspot.com)
165 points by jcastro on May 12, 2014 | 109 comments
16. Stop the Slow Lane (stoptheslowlane.com)
186 points by bfeld on May 12, 2014 | 50 comments
17. Asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
162 points by matt42 on May 12, 2014 | 34 comments
18. Ask HN: As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?
144 points by nemild on May 12, 2014 | 66 comments
19. 2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor (extremetech.com)
141 points by givan on May 12, 2014 | 38 comments
20. Show HN: OpenRA – RTS project that recreates Command and Conquer games (res0l.net)
131 points by ZakWheaton on May 12, 2014 | 40 comments
21. Categories from scratch
133 points by mmastrac on May 12, 2014 | 20 comments
22. Baby Name Predictor (time.com)
127 points by jsvine on May 12, 2014 | 73 comments
23. Algorithm for Capturing Pokémon (dragonflycave.com)
117 points by jonshariat on May 12, 2014 | 29 comments
24. OAuth Security Cheatsheet (oauthsecurity.com)
125 points by homakov on May 12, 2014 | 15 comments
25. Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview (msdn.com)
117 points by chris-at on May 12, 2014 | 16 comments
26. Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial (scannerlicker.net)
111 points by adamnemecek on May 12, 2014 | 33 comments
27. Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events (soundcloud.com)
108 points by sagichmal on May 12, 2014 | 29 comments
28. The Power of Fat (aeon.co)
101 points by mr_tyzic on May 12, 2014 | 24 comments
29. Plaintiff in tech hiring suit asks judge to reject settlement (reuters.com)
106 points by 001sky on May 12, 2014 | 35 comments
30. Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (2004) (weitz.de)
88 points by nkurz on May 12, 2014 | 22 comments

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