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1. A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC (windytan.blogspot.fi)
352 points by emhart on May 4, 2013 | 45 comments
2. Experiment in paying villagers in India an unconditional basic income (mondediplo.com)
267 points by xSwag on May 4, 2013 | 225 comments
3. Predicting Google Product Shutdowns (gwern.net)
261 points by kiba on May 4, 2013 | 139 comments
4. Help Kiera with her legal bills (crowdtilt.com)
241 points by ajaymehta on May 4, 2013 | 113 comments
5. JSON API (jsonapi.org)
227 points by steveklabnik on May 4, 2013 | 135 comments
6. Today I saw the future (brendaneich.com)
224 points by davidascher on May 4, 2013 | 48 comments
7. A “simple” 3rd grade problem (math.stackexchange.com)
193 points by adito on May 4, 2013 | 163 comments
8. How to Be Startup CEO (startupguide.com)
148 points by bsims on May 4, 2013 | 21 comments
9. Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? (guardian.co.uk)
145 points by glaugh on May 4, 2013 | 57 comments
10. ClojureC, a compiler for Clojure that targets C as a backend (github.com/schani)
144 points by terhechte on May 4, 2013 | 86 comments
11. Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)
142 points by usea on May 4, 2013 | 57 comments
12. The cost of hand-to-mouth living (ft.com)
139 points by cs702 on May 4, 2013 | 122 comments
13. Geometee (geometee.com)
140 points by mxxx on May 4, 2013 | 46 comments
14. Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses (nytimes.com)
137 points by lxm on May 4, 2013 | 56 comments
15. In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit (vice.com)
137 points by weston on May 4, 2013 | 85 comments
16. How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google (forbes.com/sites/roberthof)
123 points by cmaher on May 4, 2013 | 106 comments
17. Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Silk Road (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
107 points by gbrindisi on May 4, 2013 | 118 comments
18. Simple Raspberry Pi Rack (raspberrypi.org)
105 points by ausjke on May 4, 2013 | 24 comments
19. Ask gwern: Who are you?
103 points by bmmayer1 on May 4, 2013 | 44 comments
20. Let's Make GitHub Better, Together (shurcool.github.io)
103 points by DanielRibeiro on May 4, 2013 | 41 comments
21. Harper Lee sues for copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird (bbc.co.uk)
81 points by ComputerGuru on May 4, 2013 | 43 comments
22. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) (bioperl.org)
80 points by bsima on May 4, 2013 | 63 comments
23. What are Fortran and Cobol used for today? (stackoverflow.com)
80 points by optiminimalist on May 4, 2013 | 68 comments
24. How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years (techcrunch.com)
81 points by btmills on May 4, 2013 | 33 comments
25. Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an undefined period of time” (tosdr.org)
78 points by hugoroy on May 4, 2013 | 32 comments
26. [dupe] Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2 (chimerasaurus.com)
70 points by mmastrac on May 4, 2013 | 15 comments
27. Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong (bizjournals.com)
67 points by rubyron on May 4, 2013 | 64 comments
28. Don’t build. Compose (medium.com/on-startups)
59 points by 2t on May 4, 2013 | 17 comments
29. Facebook Blocks Path’s “Find Friends” Access Following Spam Controversy (techcrunch.com)
58 points by Lightning on May 4, 2013 | 35 comments
30. HubSpot CEO: We would've struggled on the West Coast (bizjournals.com)
55 points by replicatorblog on May 4, 2013 | 44 comments

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