| 1. | | JQuery knobs (anthonyterrien.com) |
| 472 points by agumonkey on May 9, 2012 | 96 comments |
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| 2. | | Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions (tum.de) |
| 350 points by fpp on May 9, 2012 | 84 comments |
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| 3. | | Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore (hanselman.com) |
| 314 points by joeyespo on May 9, 2012 | 267 comments |
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| 4. | | Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality (bof.nl) |
| 310 points by slasaus on May 9, 2012 | 60 comments |
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| 5. | | Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons (dcurt.is) |
| 291 points by danielzarick on May 9, 2012 | 75 comments |
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| 6. | | HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS (html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com) |
| 274 points by antidaily on May 9, 2012 | 48 comments |
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| 7. | | Say hello to Octicons (github.com/blog) |
| 253 points by Fluxx on May 9, 2012 | 135 comments |
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| 8. | | Show HN: Simperium, a realtime data layer (simperium.com) |
| 208 points by cloudmike on May 9, 2012 | 87 comments |
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| 9. | | Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies) (jasonshen.com) |
| 200 points by jasonshen on May 9, 2012 | 28 comments |
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| 10. | | Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser (bethsoft.com) |
| 169 points by aw3c2 on May 9, 2012 | 46 comments |
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| 11. | | Vert.x (JVM async) vs Node.js Http benchmarks results (vertxproject.wordpress.com) |
| 151 points by purplefox on May 9, 2012 | 118 comments |
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| 12. | | I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst (antipope.org) |
| 146 points by cstross on May 9, 2012 | 130 comments |
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| 13. | | Who Wants To Buy Honduras? (nytimes.com) |
| 143 points by gruseom on May 9, 2012 | 96 comments |
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| 14. | | 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address (jacobelder.com) |
| 136 points by aaronwhite on May 9, 2012 | 47 comments |
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| 15. | | First Python 2.7 interpreter to use multiple cores (python.org) |
| 130 points by spazz on May 9, 2012 | 40 comments |
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| 16. | | An Effort To Bury A Throwaway Culture One Repair At A Time (nytimes.com) |
| 130 points by olegious on May 9, 2012 | 119 comments |
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| 17. | | Introducing The App Center (facebook.com) |
| 127 points by akarambir on May 9, 2012 | 48 comments |
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| 18. | | SparkFun Gets A Subpoena (sparkfun.com) |
| 120 points by phren0logy on May 9, 2012 | 54 comments |
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| 19. | | TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical (apenwarr.ca) |
| 115 points by soundsop on May 9, 2012 | 20 comments |
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| 21. | | A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius (elezea.com) |
| 116 points by pascal07 on May 9, 2012 | 46 comments |
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| 22. | | You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research (dadgum.com) |
| 112 points by tl on May 9, 2012 | 31 comments |
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| 23. | | Arduino-Powered Wire Bending Machine (makezine.com) |
| 105 points by eskimoblood on May 9, 2012 | 18 comments |
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| 24. | | Watch someone else code and learn (thecodeplayer.com) |
| 99 points by abijlani on May 9, 2012 | 17 comments |
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| 25. | | Why you should ALWAYS CC someone |
| 98 points by dsirijus on May 9, 2012 | 68 comments |
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| 26. | | What Is And Is Not A Technology Company (al3x.net) |
| 95 points by twampss on May 9, 2012 | 31 comments |
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| 27. | | How well do various revision tools handle merge conflicts? (plus.google.com) |
| 94 points by decklin on May 9, 2012 | 34 comments |
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| 28. | | Darcs - Another open source version control system (darcs.net) |
| 92 points by alagu on May 9, 2012 | 78 comments |
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| 29. | | When Kids Start Doing Root Cause Analysis (marksweep.com) |
| 92 points by mkswp on May 9, 2012 | 24 comments |
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| 30. | | C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language (epita.fr) |
| 90 points by kalenz on May 9, 2012 | 83 comments |
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The execution is too detailed. Details, regardless of how pixel-perfect they are, do blur upon quick glance, and the more details there are, the more it looks like a gray blob. The execution is also inconsistent - why the book is 3D, but the rest is flat? Except for the coffee mug that is neither.
The conceptualization is off too. The fact that they need to explain an icon is a red flag. Why book? They answer that with 5 lines of text. Why wrench and a screwdriver, when a gear is a visually simpler icon that is widely understood? Why the Logout arrow implies that someone walks in through the door? Why is the letter A transmitting, when it's actually about receiving?
So not to sound like a complete ass, here's what I would've used instead - a gear for preferences, a "power off/on" symbol for logout, a simple blank page with a plus sign for "new", some sort of inbox or even an envelope for "notifications". Just keep it simple and don't overthink.