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1.		U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (chicagotribune.com)
		565 points by wikiburner on Aug 5, 2013 \| 260 comments
2.		Taken (newyorker.com)
		468 points by zt on Aug 5, 2013 \| 223 comments
3.		“Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products” (groups.google.com)
		437 points by anuaitt on Aug 5, 2013 \| 190 comments
4.		Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic (cryptocloud.org)
		276 points by _bfhp on Aug 5, 2013 \| 82 comments
5.		Why I'll be a solo founder next time (dennybritz.com)
		267 points by dennybritz on Aug 5, 2013 \| 145 comments
6.		7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners (techcrunch.com)
		258 points by zackmiller84 on Aug 5, 2013 \| 91 comments
7.		Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef (theguardian.com)
		257 points by sinesha on Aug 5, 2013 \| 264 comments
8.		OS X emulation layer for Linux (dolezel.info)
		234 points by ilikehunny on Aug 5, 2013 \| 54 comments
9.		Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market (fool.com)
		229 points by cocoflunchy on Aug 5, 2013 \| 169 comments
10.		Jeff Bezos on Post purchase (washingtonpost.com)
		224 points by _pius on Aug 5, 2013 \| 62 comments
11.		Introduction to Recommender Systems (coursera.org)
		194 points by swGooF on Aug 5, 2013 \| 48 comments
12.		OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library (openbiometrics.org)
		192 points by afics on Aug 5, 2013 \| 29 comments
13.		Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code (garrytan.com)
		194 points by nrcha on Aug 5, 2013 \| 78 comments
14.		Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity (wired.com)
		186 points by magikarp on Aug 5, 2013 \| 33 comments
15.		Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly (techcrunch.com)
		173 points by callmevlad on Aug 5, 2013 \| 53 comments
16.		Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing (sophos.com)
		167 points by Libertatea on Aug 5, 2013 \| 178 comments
17.		SQL Injection Galore (github.com/search)
		157 points by ericmathison on Aug 5, 2013 \| 86 comments
18.		Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..." (twitter.com/brendaneich)
		151 points by andreypopp on Aug 5, 2013 \| 54 comments
19.		A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) (catonmat.net)
		148 points by shawndumas on Aug 5, 2013 \| 36 comments
20.		A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python (github.com/zedshaw)
		145 points by bbgm on Aug 5, 2013 \| 12 comments
21.		Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox (infinum.co)
		144 points by reisub on Aug 5, 2013 \| 21 comments
22.		A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think (torrentfreak.com)
		131 points by Lightning on Aug 5, 2013 \| 49 comments
23.		Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier (techcrunch.com)
		127 points by zefi on Aug 5, 2013 \| 27 comments
24.		Github needs a new button (joelg236.github.io)
		126 points by joelg236 on Aug 5, 2013 \| 39 comments
25.		Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download, list, delete from Dropbox (github.com/andreafabrizi)
		126 points by shawndumas on Aug 5, 2013 \| 32 comments
26.		The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership (bloomberg.com)
		124 points by 1337biz on Aug 5, 2013 \| 30 comments
27.		Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software (newsroom.ucla.edu)
		123 points by fdb on Aug 5, 2013 \| 45 comments
28.		Michael Hastings - 911 callers and new video confirm large explosions (sandiego6.com)
		125 points by teamgb on Aug 5, 2013 \| 85 comments
29.		Intro to CoffeeScript (aseemk.com)
		121 points by aseemk on Aug 5, 2013 \| 89 comments
30.		Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August (kalzumeus.com)
		119 points by dangrossman on Aug 5, 2013 \| 56 comments
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