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1.		Happy 20th birthday Debian (debian.org)
		520 points by fcambus on Aug 16, 2013 \| 88 comments
2.		NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (washingtonpost.com)
		416 points by glhaynes on Aug 16, 2013 \| 86 comments
3.		Show HN: noteZilla - Interactive sheet music (notezilla.io)
		275 points by siliconviking on Aug 16, 2013 \| 130 comments
4.		Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal (rollingstone.com)
		264 points by mhb on Aug 16, 2013 \| 266 comments
5.		Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks (rzimmerman.github.io)
		249 points by rzimmerman on Aug 16, 2013 \| 125 comments
6.		Obama said the NSA wasn’t “actually abusing” its powers. He was wrong (washingtonpost.com)
		253 points by binarybits on Aug 16, 2013 \| 50 comments
7.		Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order (nbcnews.com)
		248 points by ghosh on Aug 16, 2013 \| 110 comments
8.		The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery (ifweassume.com)
		245 points by brendan_gill on Aug 16, 2013 \| 145 comments
9.		Brick – UI Components for Modern Web Apps (mozilla.github.io)
		214 points by dkannan on Aug 16, 2013 \| 72 comments
10.		ZMap: Internet scanner maps all of IPv4 in 45 minutes (zmap.io)
		207 points by sweis on Aug 16, 2013 \| 63 comments
11.		Getty Just Made 4,600 Images Public Domain (smithsonianmag.com)
		198 points by sharmanaetor on Aug 16, 2013 \| 65 comments
12.		Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video] (infoq.com)
		201 points by veszig on Aug 16, 2013 \| 109 comments
13.		Edward Snowden and Gen Y: a sign of leaks to come? (antipope.org)
		198 points by cstross on Aug 16, 2013 \| 92 comments
14.		Docker interactive tutorial (docker.io)
		192 points by dhrp on Aug 16, 2013 \| 47 comments
15.		Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck (pineapple.io)
		184 points by TallboyOne on Aug 16, 2013 \| 49 comments
16.		Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits (mailgun.com)
		184 points by old-gregg on Aug 16, 2013 \| 64 comments
17.		Web server in one line of bash (razvantudorica.com)
		180 points by mikegirouard on Aug 16, 2013 \| 63 comments
18.		Samsung's exFAT Linux driver officially released as GPL (sfconservancy.org)
		172 points by 0x0 on Aug 16, 2013 \| 64 comments
19.		Show HN: We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices (pricemed.org)
		171 points by aguynamedben on Aug 16, 2013 \| 47 comments
20.		The True Size of Africa - Misleading Maps (collective-evolution.com)
		165 points by gurvinder on Aug 16, 2013 \| 101 comments
21.		They're Using it at Coffee Shops (usingitatcoffeeshops.tumblr.com)
		143 points by dkuebric on Aug 16, 2013 \| 43 comments
22.		Introducing FuzzDB (blog.mozilla.org)
		137 points by Lightning on Aug 16, 2013 \| 1 comment
23.		The creation of Missile Command and the haunting of its creator, Dave Theurer (polygon.com)
		134 points by cyang08 on Aug 16, 2013 \| 66 comments
24.		How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space? (nasa.gov)
		128 points by usaphp on Aug 16, 2013 \| 61 comments
25.		fish shell (fishshell.com)
		122 points by atldev on Aug 16, 2013 \| 75 comments
26.		How to build a large Angular.js application (gocardless.com)
		125 points by harrisonp on Aug 16, 2013 \| 52 comments
27.		Funniest reviews (amazon.com)
		123 points by tonteldoos on Aug 16, 2013 \| 36 comments
28.		The 1975 Buffett memo that saved the Washington Post's pension (cnn.com)
		120 points by peter123 on Aug 16, 2013 \| 108 comments
29.		ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay (ebay.com)
		114 points by UkiahSmith on Aug 16, 2013 \| 113 comments
30.		Snake Vim Trainer (vimsnake.com)
		109 points by zachgersh on Aug 16, 2013 \| 69 comments
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