| 1. | | Glass (dcurt.is) |
| 401 points by nate on May 30, 2013 | 174 comments |
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| 2. | | Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days (unsplash.com) |
| 357 points by mikaelcho on May 30, 2013 | 137 comments |
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| 3. | | Letter from Loretto - A Prison Letter from a CIA Whistleblower (openwatch.net) |
| 252 points by Mizza on May 30, 2013 | 48 comments |
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| 4. | | How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90% (jitbit.com) |
| 229 points by scholia on May 30, 2013 | 109 comments |
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| 6. | | Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution (forbes.com/sites/erikkain) |
| 211 points by rubikscube on May 30, 2013 | 99 comments |
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| 7. | | The secret button at pedestrian crossings (bbc.co.uk) |
| 212 points by morphics on May 30, 2013 | 111 comments |
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| 8. | | Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned (law.harvard.edu) |
| 202 points by emhart on May 30, 2013 | 129 comments |
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| 10. | | The Central Limit Theorem Visualized with D3 (vctr.me) |
| 179 points by vicapow on May 30, 2013 | 72 comments |
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| 11. | | Facebook’s New React JavaScript Library Tutorial Rewritten in AngularJS (medium.com/make-your-own-apps) |
| 173 points by vlad on May 30, 2013 | 54 comments |
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| 13. | | Google’s Go has some coders raving (arstechnica.com) |
| 157 points by bockris on May 30, 2013 | 185 comments |
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| 14. | | 3D Printer for less than $400 (kickstarter.com) |
| 156 points by yink on May 30, 2013 | 76 comments |
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| 15. | | Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing (plos.org) |
| 149 points by ca98am79 on May 30, 2013 | 125 comments |
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| 16. | | Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (mjt.me.uk) |
| 144 points by michaelt on May 30, 2013 | 128 comments |
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| 17. | | Tesla to triple supercharger network by the end of June (teslamotors.com) |
| 145 points by jcdavis on May 30, 2013 | 100 comments |
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| 18. | | Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck (malone.cc) |
| 141 points by malonedotcc on May 30, 2013 | 85 comments |
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| 19. | | The making of Medium.com (teehanlax.com) |
| 140 points by aquid on May 30, 2013 | 62 comments |
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| 20. | | Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US (shkrobius.livejournal.com) |
| 139 points by mike_esspe on May 30, 2013 | 157 comments |
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| 21. | | Disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com) |
| 138 points by rubinelli on May 30, 2013 | 30 comments |
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| 22. | | Are HN comments broken for everyone? |
| 123 points by rlu on May 30, 2013 | 38 comments |
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| 23. | | Elon Musk: Tesla network to triple by July, cross country travel by year’s end (thenextweb.com) |
| 117 points by kjhughes on May 30, 2013 | 64 comments |
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| 24. | | The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (2012) (virtuecenter.com) |
| 116 points by max0563 on May 30, 2013 | 37 comments |
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| 26. | | SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type (hyfather.com) |
| 100 points by ultimoo on May 30, 2013 | 41 comments |
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| 27. | | Man Sticks His Camera Out Storm Shelter Hole, Captures View of Tornado [video] (petapixel.com) |
| 98 points by merah on May 30, 2013 | 19 comments |
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| 29. | | Show HN: The Choice – An online programming puzzle RPG (amos.me) |
| 95 points by nddrylliog on May 30, 2013 | 111 comments |
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| 30. | | Double Fine launched a new game on Kickstarter (kickstarter.com) |
| 93 points by 6thSigma on May 30, 2013 | 81 comments |
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The decision to close the bug reminds me of a quote attributed to John Maynard Keynes. During the Great Depression, he was accused of changing his position on monetary policy, to which he responded, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
As an Ubuntu user, I'm happy to see the project shifting its long-term goal from "dethroning Microsoft on the desktop" to "delivering the best possible experience for developers and regular people across all devices."
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Edits: added "on the desktop" to "dethroning Microsoft."