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1. How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008) (preston-werner.com)
276 points by hendzen on May 25, 2013 | 89 comments
2. HTML5 Features you need to know (daker.me)
267 points by daker on May 25, 2013 | 73 comments
3. Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree (medium.com/this-happened-to-me)
220 points by davidbyttow on May 25, 2013 | 142 comments
4. Ydiff: Structural Comparison of Programs (yinwang0.wordpress.com)
176 points by roquin on May 25, 2013 | 33 comments
5. Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate comments (plus.google.com)
175 points by AndrewDucker on May 25, 2013 | 102 comments
6. Poll: long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate?
164 points by csomar on May 25, 2013 | 169 comments
7. Getting a job in San Francisco (penso.info)
152 points by fabienpenso on May 25, 2013 | 100 comments
8. Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash. (chrisblattman.com)
146 points by nkoren on May 25, 2013 | 109 comments
9. Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid (tarsnap.com)
147 points by tete on May 25, 2013 | 132 comments
10. Use Google Analytics on your blog? Check your bounce rate (drawingablank.me)
139 points by 6twenty on May 25, 2013 | 65 comments
11. Dear Dumb VC (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
125 points by jkopelman on May 25, 2013 | 39 comments
12. The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses (lifeaftercubes.com)
107 points by LifeAfterCubes on May 25, 2013 | 26 comments
13. It Is Not Flat Design. It's Just Proper Design (slid.es)
100 points by kevin on May 25, 2013 | 55 comments
14. Game designer designs a game for 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert (polygon.com)
100 points by ColinWright on May 25, 2013 | 36 comments
15. Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?
89 points by od2m on May 25, 2013 | 72 comments
16. Is the FBI dumb, evil, or just incompetent? (techcrunch.com)
88 points by kevin_morrill on May 25, 2013 | 103 comments
17. Go 1.1 performance improvements, part 2 (cheney.net)
89 points by neeee on May 25, 2013 | 15 comments
18. I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable (motherjones.com)
87 points by fmavituna on May 25, 2013 | 230 comments
19. Clojure in the Field [video] (infoq.com)
75 points by fdb on May 25, 2013 | 19 comments
20. A look at some of Python's useful itertools (naiquevin.github.io)
69 points by naiquevin on May 25, 2013 | 28 comments
21. The cult of design dictatorship (2012) (alexcabal.com)
68 points by tapp on May 25, 2013 | 43 comments
22. The $6,600 Master's Degree. (linkedin.com)
67 points by schlecht on May 25, 2013 | 78 comments
23. Google Glass in 10 years: the view from dystopia (pandodaily.com)
66 points by ms-rm on May 25, 2013 | 74 comments
24. Hexo – A fast, simple and powerful blog framework (zespia.tw)
65 points by juanfatas on May 25, 2013 | 22 comments
25. ClojureScript's persistent data structures in vanilla JavaScript (github.com/swannodette)
60 points by DanielRibeiro on May 25, 2013 | 9 comments
26. You’re Too Cheap to Fly Faster (medium.com/lift-and-drag)
55 points by benjaminfox on May 25, 2013 | 70 comments
27. Language Design Deal Breakers (sebastiansylvan.wordpress.com)
51 points by modeless on May 25, 2013 | 49 comments
28. Thoughts on Matasano Security’s Critique of Javascript Cryptography (nadim.cc)
52 points by dmix on May 25, 2013 | 56 comments
29. Ask HN: Is NodeJS stable enough to build the next Twitter?
52 points by SatyajitSarangi on May 25, 2013 | 56 comments
30. Should String Be An Abstract Class? (appsandsecurity.blogspot.com)
48 points by danbjson on May 25, 2013 | 52 comments

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