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1.Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is (qz.com)
394 points by angelohuang on May 12, 2013 | 156 comments
2.A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)
213 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 | 33 comments
3.Samsung is hurting Android (trustedreviews.com)
193 points by YeahKIA on May 12, 2013 | 111 comments
4.0 second visits according to Google Analytics (paweljaniak.co.za)
168 points by vidyesh on May 12, 2013 | 57 comments
5.Why education startups do not succeed (avichal.wordpress.com)
153 points by sajid on May 12, 2013 | 45 comments
6.Learn Web Penetration Testing The Right Way (pentesterlab.com)
151 points by morphics on May 12, 2013 | 24 comments
7.How a nation of junkies went cold turkey (newrepublic.com)
145 points by krakensden on May 12, 2013 | 110 comments
8.Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was (messynessychic.com)
138 points by ttuominen on May 12, 2013 | 23 comments
9.The Startup Story I Want To Hear (whattofix.com)
139 points by DanielBMarkham on May 12, 2013 | 62 comments
10.Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama' (theweek.com)
135 points by Lightning on May 12, 2013 | 86 comments
11.Angry young Indians: What a waste (economist.com)
130 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 | 108 comments
12.The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) (stroustrup.com)
130 points by lispython on May 12, 2013 | 152 comments
13.Call Mom Maybe (blog.twitter.com)
128 points by kirillzubovsky on May 12, 2013 | 35 comments
14.Should you submit to Hacker News? (lahiri.me)
127 points by mayank on May 12, 2013 | 58 comments
15.Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL (stackednotion.com)
124 points by edtechdev on May 12, 2013 | 74 comments
16.A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel (neosmart.net)
116 points by ComputerGuru on May 12, 2013 | 87 comments
17.Engineering the $325,000 Burger (nytimes.com)
109 points by swampthing on May 12, 2013 | 122 comments
18.How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich (theatlantic.com)
102 points by georgefox on May 12, 2013 | 65 comments

How about we drop the prudishness, and discuss the points raised by the article? Seriously, what's with all the language moralising? This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to. If it upsets you so much (it really shouldn't) then don't read it. His word choices are not hate speech or discriminatory so the fact that they may offend your sensibilities has precisely zero relevance to anything.
20.Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jaunesarmiento.me)
106 points by jamesflorentino on May 12, 2013 | 20 comments
21.How Facebook ruined comments (at least for me) (time.com)
98 points by technologizer on May 12, 2013 | 41 comments

It's slightly inaccurate to describe deleting and resubmitting as a loophole, because we ban people who do this.
23.Declarative Data Visualization library (akngs.tumblr.com)
91 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 | 9 comments
24.Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby (gist.github.com)
87 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 | 28 comments
25.Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer (pbrisbin.com)
83 points by mzehrer on May 12, 2013 | 78 comments
26.HTML5 vs Flash Video: Battery performance analysis (ne.ro)
81 points by notregistering on May 12, 2013 | 20 comments
27.Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects (vt.edu)
75 points by _ankit_ on May 12, 2013 | 23 comments
28.Google SMS search has been shut down (productforums.google.com)
75 points by duked on May 12, 2013 | 55 comments
29.Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class (salon.com)
74 points by anielsen on May 12, 2013 | 62 comments
30.HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? (quantisan.com)
77 points by plam on May 12, 2013 | 71 comments

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