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1.Facebook buys Parse (techcrunch.com)
511 points by uptown on April 25, 2013 | 268 comments
2.The next generation of Instapaper (marco.org)
416 points by paulbz on April 25, 2013 | 117 comments
3.Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released (ubuntu.com)
368 points by zeis on April 25, 2013 | 288 comments
4.“What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?” (stackoverflow.com)
284 points by tikhonj on April 25, 2013 | 80 comments
5.CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited (zdnet.com)
284 points by microwise on April 25, 2013 | 92 comments
6.Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Exam (zocalopublicsquare.org)
267 points by SeanDav on April 25, 2013 | 90 comments
7.Speed up your sites with PageSpeed for Nginx (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)
254 points by jdorfman on April 25, 2013 | 42 comments
8.Shame.css (csswizardry.com)
243 points by tomse on April 25, 2013 | 55 comments
9.Soylent Month Three (robrhinehart.com)
238 points by septerr on April 25, 2013 | 197 comments
10.Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand (treehugger.com)
226 points by MikeCapone on April 25, 2013 | 62 comments
11.Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain (torrentfreak.com)
197 points by Heliosmaster on April 25, 2013 | 120 comments
12.A taste of Rust (lwn.net)
192 points by edwintorok on April 25, 2013 | 91 comments
13.Quantitative Finance Reading List (quantstart.com)
176 points by soneca on April 25, 2013 | 89 comments

This business model isn't analogous to "promoted tweets" or "Twitter ads". It's analogous to "email spam".

You're a spammer essentially. Using an automated bot to fake a human interaction (favorite) in order to get my attention and get me to follow you. It doesn't matter that it's more effective than "Twitter Ads". Twitter Ads are marked as Ads, your favorites are not. I really do hope Twitter shuts you down, as well as those follow bots that follow me 10 times a day and unfollow me the next day.

Sadly, Twitter doesn't do much to combat spam so they likely will not. But don't fool yourself into thinking you are going to partner or be acquired by Twitter.

15.Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer (nytimes.com)
135 points by tokenadult on April 25, 2013 | 77 comments
16.Signs that you're a good programmer (sites.google.com)
129 points by wyuenho on April 25, 2013 | 58 comments
17.Show HN: Finding the colours of the web (webcolourdata.com)
128 points by riblah on April 25, 2013 | 26 comments
18.Hacking Flask: A Success Story (sendhub.com)
123 points by jaytaylor on April 25, 2013 | 35 comments
19.60W equivalent LED bulb uses 9.5W and costs $13 (designingwithleds.com)
120 points by coldpie on April 25, 2013 | 186 comments
20.Being Really, Really, Ridiculously Good Looking (priceonomics.com)
116 points by guimarin on April 25, 2013 | 142 comments
21.Machine Learning and Link Spam: My Brush With Insanity (seomoz.org)
116 points by a5seo on April 25, 2013 | 38 comments
22.AngularJS + D3.js = Radian (skybluetrades.net)
99 points by zzenon on April 25, 2013 | 18 comments

Been doing this for years. I usually call the file ie8.css, though.
24. [dupe] George W. Bush is smarter than you (keithhennessey.com)
97 points by godarderik on April 25, 2013 | 76 comments
25.What Makes Code Hard to Understand? (arxiv.org)
97 points by tchalla on April 25, 2013 | 88 comments
26.Mistakes startups make when talking to users (survata.com)
91 points by ckelly on April 25, 2013 | 23 comments
27.SF Restaurant Sign Calls Yelp ‘Bully,’ Integrity of Reviews Questioned (foodbeast.com)
89 points by cobrausn on April 25, 2013 | 87 comments
28.Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share (copyheart.org)
88 points by init0 on April 25, 2013 | 101 comments
29.Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf] (uci.edu)
83 points by urschrei on April 25, 2013 | 53 comments
30.The Future of Parse (parse.com)
85 points by ninthfrank07 on April 25, 2013 | 39 comments

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