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1. The DDoS that almost broke the Internet (cloudflare.com)
830 points by jgrahamc on March 27, 2013 | 171 comments
2. Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web (blog.mozilla.org)
504 points by metajack on March 27, 2013 | 214 comments
3. Dashing - A dashboard framework (shopify.github.com)
419 points by thehodge on March 27, 2013 | 84 comments
4. 21 Nested Callbacks (michellebu.com)
362 points by ericz on March 27, 2013 | 113 comments
5. Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative (ecogex.com)
319 points by bpierre on March 27, 2013 | 194 comments
6. Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night (code.google.com)
281 points by mayop100 on March 27, 2013 | 123 comments
7. Global Internet slows after 'biggest attack in history' (bbc.co.uk)
266 points by laumars on March 27, 2013 | 154 comments
8. Take pride or fuck it (robertheaton.com)
250 points by jshakes on March 27, 2013 | 127 comments
9. A lot of free ebooks (hackershelf.com)
249 points by ghosthamlet on March 27, 2013 | 60 comments
10. Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem (joearms.github.com)
237 points by geoffhill on March 27, 2013 | 168 comments
11. Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack (forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen)
233 points by vegasbrianc on March 27, 2013 | 124 comments
12. Rails' Insecure Defaults (codeclimate.com)
226 points by sudonim on March 27, 2013 | 50 comments
13. DARPA gives $3M to Continuum Analytics to improve Python for big data (drdobbs.com)
216 points by astaire on March 27, 2013 | 40 comments
14. The Positive Programmer (rdegges.com)
202 points by googletron on March 27, 2013 | 115 comments
15. Graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous (washingtonpost.com)
181 points by stollercyrus on March 27, 2013 | 187 comments
16. Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms (memsql.com)
180 points by nikita on March 27, 2013 | 33 comments
17. Everything about Java 8 (techempower.com)
168 points by mhixson on March 27, 2013 | 179 comments
18. FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power (slate.com)
161 points by Lightning on March 27, 2013 | 70 comments
19. Avoiding Common Backbone.js Pitfalls (ozkatz.github.com)
154 points by liordegani on March 27, 2013 | 13 comments
20. U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances (reuters.com)
134 points by uptown on March 27, 2013 | 94 comments
21. Email: the easiest way to improve retention (segment.io)
125 points by pkrein on March 27, 2013 | 30 comments
22. The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux (ubuntuvibes.com)
124 points by onosendai on March 27, 2013 | 39 comments
23. Concurrency Models: Go vs Erlang (joneisen.me)
114 points by geoka9 on March 27, 2013 | 45 comments
24. YC Demo Day, the Morning After (distributionhacks.com)
112 points by dmor on March 27, 2013 | 62 comments
25. GNOME 3.8 Released (gnome.org)
107 points by krakensden on March 27, 2013 | 90 comments
26. Let’s Say FeedBurner Shuts Down… (css-tricks.com)
100 points by Idered on March 27, 2013 | 31 comments
27. Killing hackers is justified in cyber warfare, says NATO-commissioned report (vrge.co)
101 points by achalkley on March 27, 2013 | 79 comments
28. 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia (forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng)
104 points by camz on March 27, 2013 | 77 comments
29. Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] (columbia.edu)
98 points by mitmads on March 27, 2013 | 28 comments
30. Attack of the Cosmic Rays (oracle.com)
85 points by timpattinson on March 27, 2013 | 26 comments

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