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1.Opera moves to WebKit (opera.com)
938 points by bdash on Feb 13, 2013 | 282 comments
2.Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text (mrcoles.com)
420 points by mrcoles on Feb 13, 2013 | 89 comments
3.Psilocybin shows success in medical trials (salon.com)
284 points by gnosis on Feb 13, 2013 | 165 comments
4.Why It's Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport (linkedin.com)
262 points by eplanit on Feb 13, 2013 | 229 comments
5.It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia (news.com.au)
257 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 13, 2013 | 166 comments
6.WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines (ejohn.org)
252 points by jimsteinhart on Feb 13, 2013 | 204 comments
7.I Was a Political Prisoner at Birth in North Korea (northkoreanrefugees.com)
248 points by followingell on Feb 13, 2013 | 134 comments
8.16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial (photonstorm.com)
245 points by gaoprea on Feb 13, 2013 | 56 comments
9.Introducing The Paper Bay (jacquesmattheij.com)
232 points by david927 on Feb 13, 2013 | 90 comments
10.Inventing Chromebook (jeff-nelson.com)
222 points by jtemplin on Feb 13, 2013 | 77 comments
11.Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers (cloud66.com)
207 points by ksajadi on Feb 13, 2013 | 108 comments
12.Our Beta is Now Open to All Developers (firebase.com)
202 points by justinwi on Feb 13, 2013 | 59 comments
13.Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (computerhistory.org)
192 points by ConstantineXVI on Feb 13, 2013 | 78 comments
14.It could happen to you too (digbysblog.blogspot.com)
188 points by drunkpotato on Feb 13, 2013 | 77 comments
15.How Much Traffic is Too Much Traffic For CloudFlare? (phoboslab.org)
186 points by phoboslab on Feb 13, 2013 | 79 comments
16.300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit (opera.com)
181 points by andreastt on Feb 13, 2013 | 50 comments
17.Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint (insanebraintrain.blogspot.fr)
164 points by emillon on Feb 13, 2013 | 156 comments
18.How I work with Postgres – psql, My PostgreSQL Admin (craigkerstiens.com)
149 points by craigkerstiens on Feb 13, 2013 | 56 comments
19.The credentials trap (cdixon.org)
139 points by mh_ on Feb 13, 2013 | 24 comments
20.Five days with Pebble (danilocampos.com)
129 points by danilocampos on Feb 13, 2013 | 61 comments
21.March 16, USPTO switches from 'first to invent' to 'first to file' (jdsupra.com)
126 points by seats on Feb 13, 2013 | 82 comments

Rap Genius is employing a classic rap-mogul strategy: start a beef

Smart move.

I don't know a single web dev who tests on Opera anymore. I personally stopped worrying about it for any of my products when it hit 1.6% market share, and that was five years ago. They're essentially not supported by anybody, and haven't been for a long time.

... But that's never mattered, since they have always known it. And they went out of their way to make sure they rendered exactly like the dominant browser. For the longest time, they'd match Internet Explorer quirk for quirk, so if you supported that you supported Opera.

Now they see that Chrome is going to win, so they're switching to copying Chrome instead. And since Chrome has a nice drop-in "Chrome in a box" rendering engine they can use, it's going to be a lot easier to pull off this time around.

They'll continue to be the browser that nobody cares about (aside from six people who are no doubt here in this thread somewhere), but your site will probably render fine on it.

EDIT: Looks like those aforementioned Opera devotees have arrived. This comment went from 6 points and the top slot down to 1 point in the last ten minutes. Funny, since it's not actually an anti-Opera comment (or of course the sort of thing that down-votes here are usually reserved for).

24.Google’s New Office In Dublin (home-designing.com)
115 points by edu on Feb 13, 2013 | 78 comments
25.My Apology (jonahlehrer.com)
113 points by petenixey on Feb 13, 2013 | 88 comments
26.How to program if you are blind (stackoverflow.com)
110 points by ralphchurch on Feb 13, 2013 | 33 comments

I do perf work at Facebook, and over time I've become more and more convinced that the most crucial metric is the width of the latency histogram. Narrowing your latency band --even if it makes the average case worse-- makes so many systems problems better (top of the list: load balancing) it's not even funny.
28.Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion (37signals.com)
104 points by johnmwilliams on Feb 13, 2013 | 59 comments

Disappointed the top comments are criticizing and discussing the browser limitations.

For a weekend project, this guy created a UI that deals intuitively deals with angles, bezier curves, dependent relations between objects, and turns it all into HTML, and you guys are that butt hurt it only works in Chrome?

30.Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.de)
94 points by ksdlck on Feb 13, 2013 | 67 comments

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