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1.		Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign (garrytan.com)
		596 points by kirillzubovsky on June 24, 2013 \| 206 comments
2.		An Apology to my European IT Team (fredlybrand.com)
		528 points by flybrand on June 24, 2013 \| 92 comments
3.		Foundations of Computer Science (stanford.edu)
		437 points by sonabinu on June 24, 2013 \| 86 comments
4.		Only the Lonely (stephenfry.com)
		395 points by jlangenauer on June 24, 2013 \| 118 comments
5.		Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?
		374 points by 0xbadcafebee on June 24, 2013 \| 155 comments
6.		Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (tylerneylon.com)
		357 points by tylerneylon on June 24, 2013 \| 94 comments
7.		Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck (smartbear.com)
		354 points by Baustin on June 24, 2013 \| 265 comments
8.		Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA, but almost no one uses it (computerworld.com)
		347 points by LoganCale on June 24, 2013 \| 135 comments
9.		USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden (amnesty.org)
		344 points by salimmadjd on June 24, 2013 \| 237 comments
10.		Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was eliminated (markmail.org)
		308 points by cantrevealname on June 24, 2013 \| 135 comments
11.		America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) (nytimes.com)
		304 points by joshfraser on June 24, 2013 \| 146 comments
12.		What every web developer must know about URL encoding (lunatech.com)
		266 points by bemmu on June 24, 2013 \| 35 comments
13.		My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89 (thetrichordist.com)
		258 points by uladzislau on June 24, 2013 \| 238 comments
14.		PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0 (vgleaks.com)
		247 points by jorgecastillo on June 24, 2013 \| 87 comments
15.		Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer (medium.com/this-happened-to-me)
		213 points by dsowers on June 24, 2013 \| 142 comments
16.		List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks (apple.stackexchange.com)
		203 points by jason_tko on June 24, 2013 \| 65 comments
17.		Dirty Game Development Tricks (gamasutra.com)
		196 points by dsirijus on June 24, 2013 \| 39 comments
18.		One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court (washingtonpost.com)
		192 points by alsothings on June 24, 2013 \| 109 comments
19.		Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (samaltman.com)
		186 points by kirillzubovsky on June 24, 2013 \| 155 comments
20.		Fair trial impossible in U.S., Snowden tells Ecuador (cnn.com)
		160 points by mathattack on June 24, 2013 \| 107 comments
21.		Australian government shelves controversial data retention scheme (smh.com.au)
		159 points by ra on June 24, 2013 \| 34 comments
22.		Python and the Real-time Web (mrjoes.github.io)
		152 points by joecarpenter on June 24, 2013 \| 17 comments
23.		Ambition can be poison (37signals.com)
		151 points by mh_ on June 24, 2013 \| 99 comments
24.		Project Meshnet (projectmeshnet.org)
		136 points by lucaspiller on June 24, 2013 \| 11 comments
25.		German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens (efytimes.com)
		127 points by mariuz on June 24, 2013 \| 74 comments
26.		OpenGL – OS X Mountain Lion vs. Mavericks (rk.md)
		127 points by ingve on June 24, 2013 \| 91 comments
27.		Edward Snowden whereabouts unknown as US presses Russia (guardian.co.uk)
		120 points by swombat on June 24, 2013 \| 73 comments
28.		If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best talent (pandodaily.com)
		118 points by rdl on June 24, 2013 \| 67 comments
29.		Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets (nonamesnojackets.com)
		113 points by mikecane on June 24, 2013 \| 30 comments
30.		Basic income as an answer to all out automation (newstatesman.com)
		105 points by dietervds on June 24, 2013 \| 153 comments
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