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Top of Month - Apr 2013
  1. Gitmo Is Killing Me
    (15 Apr 2013 | 1333 points | Comments)

  2. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM
    (30 Apr 2013 | 1223 points | Comments)

  3. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
    (23 Apr 2013 | 1048 points | Comments)

  4. If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
    (3 Apr 2013 | 996 points | Comments)

  5. Here is today
    (28 Apr 2013 | 899 points | Comments)

  6. Explosions near Boston Marathon finish line
    (15 Apr 2013 | 872 points | Comments)

  7. Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
    (4 Apr 2013 | 841 points | Comments)

  8. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
    (23 Apr 2013 | 770 points | Comments)

  9. Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
    (15 Apr 2013 | 753 points | Comments)

  10. Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
    (3 Apr 2013 | 729 points | Comments)

  11. Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
    (8 Apr 2013 | 717 points | Comments)

  12. Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
    (7 Apr 2013 | 689 points | Comments)

  13. You know, Google, the web already had this feature
    (11 Apr 2013 | 667 points | Comments)

  14. What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space [video]
    (19 Apr 2013 | 656 points | Comments)

  15. Why Rackspace Is Suing The Most Notorious Patent Troll In America
    (4 Apr 2013 | 622 points | Comments)

  16. You are not Steve Jobs
    (19 Apr 2013 | 616 points | Comments)

  17. Helios
    (2 Apr 2013 | 586 points | Comments)

  18. "Asswipe," replied Yahoo's server. That's when I knew I had it
    (18 Apr 2013 | 573 points | Comments)

  19. French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article
    (6 Apr 2013 | 570 points | Comments)

  20. I Knew a Programmer Who Went Completely Insane
    (19 Apr 2013 | 559 points | Comments)

  21. The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
    (16 Apr 2013 | 553 points | Comments)

  22. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy
    (29 Apr 2013 | 551 points | Comments)

  23. What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
    (17 Apr 2013 | 546 points | Comments)

  24. Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
    (3 Apr 2013 | 544 points | Comments)

  25. Light Table 0.4 released
    (30 Apr 2013 | 544 points | Comments)

  26. Twitter Should Shut Me Down
    (25 Apr 2013 | 541 points | Comments)

  27. Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
    (18 Apr 2013 | 535 points | Comments)

  28. Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
    (8 Apr 2013 | 523 points | Comments)

  29. I knew exactly how she felt
    (26 Apr 2013 | 521 points | Comments)

  30. What a stupid idea
    (30 Apr 2013 | 517 points | Comments)

  31. News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
    (15 Apr 2013 | 511 points | Comments)

  32. Facebook buys Parse
    (25 Apr 2013 | 511 points | Comments)

  33. Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
    (8 Apr 2013 | 504 points | Comments)

  34. Wish I was here by Zach Braff
    (24 Apr 2013 | 483 points | Comments)

  35. Disney have stolen my artwork
    (8 Apr 2013 | 475 points | Comments)

  36. My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me
    (29 Apr 2013 | 475 points | Comments)

  37. Hoodie: very fast web app development
    (8 Apr 2013 | 474 points | Comments)

  38. Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation
    (10 Apr 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

  39. JQuery 2.0 Released
    (18 Apr 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

  40. How I coded in 1985
    (29 Apr 2013 | 470 points | Comments)

  41. Comcast injecting JS
    (2 Apr 2013 | 461 points | Comments)

  42. Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
    (11 Apr 2013 | 461 points | Comments)

  43. Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?
    (14 Apr 2013 | 457 points | Comments)

  44. Very Short Reply Expected
    (21 Apr 2013 | 456 points | Comments)

  45. How can we get Google Support?
    (10 Apr 2013 | 446 points | Comments)

  46. We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators
    (2 Apr 2013 | 444 points | Comments)

  47. “Right click and save as” needs to go away
    (23 Apr 2013 | 444 points | Comments)

  48. The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away
    (23 Apr 2013 | 443 points | Comments)

  49. A Personal Statement from Iain Banks
    (3 Apr 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

  50. Abolish The Patent, Vanquish The Troll
    (12 Apr 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

  51. The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas
    (30 Apr 2013 | 442 points | Comments)

  52. How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist
    (6 Apr 2013 | 441 points | Comments)

  53. Tesla Unveils New Finance Product
    (2 Apr 2013 | 438 points | Comments)

  54. Linux on an 8-bit micro
    (20 Apr 2013 | 436 points | Comments)

  55. We used to sleep twice each night
    (13 Apr 2013 | 417 points | Comments)

  56. The next generation of Instapaper
    (25 Apr 2013 | 416 points | Comments)

  57. How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
    (8 Apr 2013 | 405 points | Comments)

  58. Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
    (19 Apr 2013 | 402 points | Comments)

  59. Avoiding Burnout
    (30 Apr 2013 | 401 points | Comments)

  60. Stop working so hard
    (3 Apr 2013 | 399 points | Comments)

  61. Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
    (14 Apr 2013 | 399 points | Comments)

  62. Don't use Linksys routers
    (6 Apr 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

  63. If you're in Boston without phone service, use this website to call your family
    (16 Apr 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

  64. Postgres on the GPU
    (23 Apr 2013 | 397 points | Comments)

  65. Bitcoin falls from $266
    (10 Apr 2013 | 396 points | Comments)

  66. Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade
    (9 Apr 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

  67. _why's site is updated
    (12 Apr 2013 | 391 points | Comments)

  68. Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
    (11 Apr 2013 | 390 points | Comments)

  69. #ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software
    (26 Apr 2013 | 390 points | Comments)

  70. Obsession
    (27 Apr 2013 | 390 points | Comments)

  71. Could HN stop participating in the witchhunt?
    (19 Apr 2013 | 382 points | Comments)

  72. Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before Starting My Company
    (17 Apr 2013 | 378 points | Comments)

  73. A game when games were new
    (1 Apr 2013 | 377 points | Comments)

  74. Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
    (20 Apr 2013 | 377 points | Comments)

  75. AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story
    (9 Apr 2013 | 373 points | Comments)

  76. Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
    (3 Apr 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

  77. Sleep: Everything You Need to Know
    (22 Apr 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

  78. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released
    (25 Apr 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

  79. Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems
    (16 Apr 2013 | 367 points | Comments)

  80. StarWars + Git logs = StarLogs
    (12 Apr 2013 | 365 points | Comments)

  81. Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men
    (15 Apr 2013 | 365 points | Comments)

  82. Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders
    (1 Apr 2013 | 363 points | Comments)

  83. Github turns five
    (11 Apr 2013 | 360 points | Comments)

  84. CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call
    (18 Apr 2013 | 355 points | Comments)

  85. Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer
    (16 Apr 2013 | 354 points | Comments)

  86. Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
    (26 Apr 2013 | 354 points | Comments)

  87. Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt
    (19 Apr 2013 | 348 points | Comments)

  88. Reddit co-founder calls out Google, Twitter, Facebook over CISPA
    (18 Apr 2013 | 344 points | Comments)

  89. New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser
    (9 Apr 2013 | 342 points | Comments)

  90. Firefox 23 will block non-SSL content on SSL pages by default
    (8 Apr 2013 | 341 points | Comments)

  91. India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement
    (13 Apr 2013 | 339 points | Comments)

  92. Facebook Home
    (4 Apr 2013 | 331 points | Comments)

  93. Creating a Radial Menu in CSS
    (26 Apr 2013 | 331 points | Comments)

  94. Google Now on your iPhone and iPad
    (29 Apr 2013 | 329 points | Comments)

  95. Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah
    (17 Apr 2013 | 326 points | Comments)

  96. Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
    (20 Apr 2013 | 325 points | Comments)

  97. Stop externalising your life
    (4 Apr 2013 | 322 points | Comments)

  98. Check you're wearing trousers first
    (2 Apr 2013 | 321 points | Comments)

  99. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
    (1 Apr 2013 | 320 points | Comments)

  100. SpaceX Grasshopper Flies High
    (23 Apr 2013 | 319 points | Comments)