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1. Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?
457 points by pg on April 14, 2013 | 294 comments
2. Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games (techcrunch.com)
399 points by npongratz on April 14, 2013 | 120 comments
3. What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell (stephendiehl.com)
306 points by gtani on April 14, 2013 | 99 comments
4. Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram (awsofa.info)
297 points by sethbannon on April 14, 2013 | 104 comments
5. What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow") (jmoiron.net)
283 points by ANTSANTS on April 14, 2013 | 192 comments
6. Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (corante.com)
257 points by hythloday on April 14, 2013 | 59 comments
7. Mozilla TowTruck – real-time collaboration on any site (mozillalabs.com)
216 points by aeontech on April 14, 2013 | 44 comments
8. Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me (bitcointalk.org)
199 points by bcl on April 14, 2013 | 15 comments
9. Show HN: vim-multiple-cursors - True Sublime Text style multiple selection (github.com/terryma)
191 points by tma on April 14, 2013 | 37 comments
10. The Rent Seeking Economy (intellectual-detox.com)
192 points by bokonist on April 14, 2013 | 129 comments
11. The Queen’s stylesheets (spiffingcss.com)
164 points by marcolz on April 14, 2013 | 72 comments
12. New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum (debian.org)
153 points by shared4you on April 14, 2013 | 30 comments
13. Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham (garrytan.com)
153 points by DavidChouinard on April 14, 2013 | 49 comments
14. Lost in the Meritocracy (2005) (theatlantic.com)
138 points by mitmads on April 14, 2013 | 61 comments
15. Seeking Inspiration? (sivers.org)
124 points by ajhit406 on April 14, 2013 | 14 comments
16. Status of the first million Bitcoins (bitcointalk.org)
124 points by mdelias on April 14, 2013 | 115 comments
17. Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down (forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler)
108 points by ttuominen on April 14, 2013 | 138 comments
18. Rework git core for native submodules (gmane.org)
103 points by sdqali on April 14, 2013 | 44 comments
19. A plea for better open source etiquette (quickpeople.wordpress.com)
103 points by benilov on April 14, 2013 | 51 comments
20. A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs (acm.org)
100 points by cnahr on April 14, 2013 | 43 comments
21. Google Glass was prototyped in one day - with chopsticks (glass-apps.org)
88 points by infoman on April 14, 2013 | 27 comments
22. Starting to Hack on Steel Bank Common Lisp (pvk.ca)
88 points by avodonosov on April 14, 2013 | 20 comments
23. Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON operators (otacoo.com)
86 points by stesch on April 14, 2013 | 29 comments
24. No Population Bomb (theratchet.ca)
76 points by pstadler on April 14, 2013 | 91 comments
25. Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption (techcrunch.com)
73 points by Lightning on April 14, 2013 | 89 comments
26. Founders: You don't own your employees (jasonevanish.com)
73 points by jevanish on April 14, 2013 | 25 comments
27. Dive Into HTML5 (diveintohtml5.info)
66 points by anonymouz on April 14, 2013 | 9 comments
28. Why It's Time to Sunset jQuery (professionalaspnet.com)
64 points by jasoncrawford on April 14, 2013 | 76 comments
29. FAA: 'No, you can't hijack a plane with an Android app' (theregister.co.uk)
64 points by sambeau on April 14, 2013 | 29 comments
30. Zero Knowledge Proofs (wikipedia.org)
60 points by stollercyrus on April 14, 2013 | 19 comments

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