| 1. | | Manchester City Council (manchester.gov.uk) |
| 363 points by mattwritescode on May 2, 2013 | 232 comments |
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| 3. | | Portal Released For Steam On Linux (phoronix.com) |
| 302 points by mindstab on May 2, 2013 | 146 comments |
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| 5. | | Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins (unheap.com) |
| 262 points by shawndumas on May 2, 2013 | 51 comments |
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| 6. | | Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop (hackthings.com) |
| 248 points by jheitzeb on May 2, 2013 | 195 comments |
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| 7. | | Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo (unrealengine.com) |
| 250 points by AaronMT on May 2, 2013 | 143 comments |
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| 9. | | Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup (dimsemenov.com) |
| 196 points by diiiimaaaa on May 2, 2013 | 64 comments |
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| 10. | | Year 2038 problem (wikipedia.org) |
| 194 points by areski on May 2, 2013 | 108 comments |
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| 11. | | An Introduction to the Mechanics of Bitcoin (khanacademy.org) |
| 184 points by sophiebits on May 2, 2013 | 36 comments |
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| 12. | | Bayes' rule in Haskell (2007) (randomhacks.net) |
| 176 points by tikhonj on May 2, 2013 | 77 comments |
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| 13. | | Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You (wsj.com) |
| 151 points by tuxguy on May 2, 2013 | 71 comments |
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| 15. | | Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme (atomicobject.com) |
| 145 points by fogus on May 2, 2013 | 22 comments |
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| 16. | | Nerds, we need to have a talk (2011) (thingist.com) |
| 136 points by roguecoder on May 2, 2013 | 85 comments |
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| 17. | | Eric Brewer on Why Banks are BASE, Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue (highscalability.com) |
| 134 points by abhijitr on May 2, 2013 | 48 comments |
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| 18. | | Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 (thenextweb.com) |
| 124 points by Lightning on May 2, 2013 | 18 comments |
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| 19. | | Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM (paralleluniverse.co) |
| 116 points by pron on May 2, 2013 | 54 comments |
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| 20. | | Petition to drop charges against Kiera Wilmot (change.org) |
| 124 points by rmah on May 2, 2013 | 101 comments |
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| 21. | | Probably the worst URL scheme ever (bvb.de) |
| 113 points by jakub_g on May 2, 2013 | 100 comments |
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| 22. | | Exploration of the Google PageRank Algorithm (googledrive.com) |
| 115 points by bflbfl on May 2, 2013 | 25 comments |
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| 23. | | Stop “Disrupting” Everything (slate.com) |
| 103 points by jamesbritt on May 2, 2013 | 80 comments |
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| 24. | | Linode Manager Two-Step Authentication (linode.com) |
| 96 points by timewasted on May 2, 2013 | 84 comments |
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| 25. | | Building Stuff To Help You Sell The Stuff You Build (slideshare.net) |
| 95 points by urlwolf on May 2, 2013 | 25 comments |
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| 26. | | Google and Adobe team up to improve fonts on iOS and Linux (zdnet.com) |
| 98 points by microwise on May 2, 2013 | 76 comments |
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| 27. | | Sweating the UI and UX details: Emails and Email Addresses (close.io) |
| 94 points by SteliE on May 2, 2013 | 62 comments |
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| 29. | | Rack Attack: Protection from abusive clients (kickstarter.com) |
| 92 points by ktheory on May 2, 2013 | 27 comments |
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A government website showcases a design that is leaps and bounds ahead of any other government site we can think of, and HN's top comment casually dismisses it.
To rewrite something you said: "This is the perfect example of everything wrong with [HN comments]."
I, for one, am floored that someone in city government was able to rise above the bureaucracy and ship something truly useful and delightful for citizens. I would love nothing more than to meet the people involved and buy them a pint. Well done, guys.