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1.BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public (torrentfreak.com)
770 points by ninthfrank07 on April 23, 2013 | 283 comments
2.The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away (rockpapershotgun.com)
443 points by Vekz on April 23, 2013 | 107 comments
3.“Right click and save as” needs to go away (svarden.se)
444 points by cfj on April 23, 2013 | 185 comments
4.Postgres on the GPU (postgresql.org)
397 points by Rickasaurus on April 23, 2013 | 77 comments
5.SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High (universetoday.com)
319 points by navneetpandey on April 23, 2013 | 203 comments
6.My First Year in the App Store (trevormckendrick.com)
255 points by trevmckendrick on April 23, 2013 | 100 comments
7.Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (hut8labs.com)
246 points by durumcrustulum on April 23, 2013 | 72 comments
8.TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL (trace.gl)
210 points by rikarends on April 23, 2013 | 65 comments
9.Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Here's a Tool to Help (theatlantic.com)
183 points by hythloday on April 23, 2013 | 63 comments
10.Bitcoin URL scheme whitelisted in HTML5 (html5.org)
182 points by bpierre on April 23, 2013 | 56 comments
11.Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone (geeksphone.com)
162 points by pepsi on April 23, 2013 | 89 comments
12.Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention (data-informed.com)
160 points by signa11 on April 23, 2013 | 43 comments
13.Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life (washingtonpost.com)
160 points by ilamont on April 23, 2013 | 163 comments
14.Futurama Canceled Again (slate.com)
142 points by erre on April 23, 2013 | 57 comments
15.Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager (mneorr.github.io)
137 points by jamesjyu on April 23, 2013 | 35 comments
16.We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla (datadial.net)
136 points by bubba1356 on April 23, 2013 | 55 comments
17.Things I set on new servers (simonholywell.com)
141 points by Treffynnon on April 23, 2013 | 69 comments
18.What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison (dailydot.com)
136 points by astaire on April 23, 2013 | 96 comments
19.Free O'Reilly Books (oreilly.com)
136 points by Cieplak on April 23, 2013 | 33 comments
20.Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
128 points by wikiburner on April 23, 2013 | 113 comments
21.MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores (memsql.com)
127 points by nikita on April 23, 2013 | 29 comments
22.Zen Photon Garden (scanlime.org)
120 points by andyjohnson0 on April 23, 2013 | 10 comments
23.Go Circuit – Distributed Go Programming Framework (gocircuit.org)
121 points by Rooki on April 23, 2013 | 23 comments
24.The Beginner's Guide to Sales (strideapp.com)
123 points by andrewdumont on April 23, 2013 | 19 comments

I have no idea why this has to be so gender specific. Every argument works equally well in terms of fathers as well, yet she doesn't even take that second to even consider the issue. She doesn't think to write about people, but only about women. You get the feeling that the author has spent so long thinking of women as 'us' and men as 'them' that she actually sees the two as two completely separate species.

Terribly sad, maybe the next generation of feminists will be able to break out of the box they've made for themselves, and devote themselves to more general philosophic introspection.

26.Stupid Legal Threats: You Can't Write About Me Because of Your Blog's Name (popehat.com)
105 points by tokenadult on April 23, 2013 | 40 comments
27.Facebook’s “I F*cking Love Science” does not love artists (scientificamerican.com)
102 points by tokenadult on April 23, 2013 | 95 comments

There are already ways to force browsers to download using HTTP headers. The author says this is a "server-side solutions to front-end problem", okay.

But anyways, when pages use this already, it OFTEN pisses me off, when I want to look at a PDF in browser, but the web app/page is forcing me to save it to disk and then re-open it in another app.

What we _really_ need, that we _don't_ have a way to do right now -- is signal the browser to _prompt_ the user as to whether it should be saved or displayed in-browser. The browser could ignore unless it was capable of displaying in-browser of course. That's something we do not have any way of doing in a reliable way now with HTTP headers, and I wish html5 would add that, instead of duplicating a lesser feature which is both possible now, and frequently annoying.

29.Writing A Persona Identity Provider (lukasa.co.uk)
97 points by johns on April 23, 2013 | 16 comments
30.Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech (attendly.com)
96 points by shandsaker on April 23, 2013 | 115 comments

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