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1.
Thoreau 2.0 (static.pinboard.in)
331 points by anu_gupta on Sept 28, 2013 | 52 comments
2.
UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack" (hackaday.com)
315 points by raldu on Sept 28, 2013 | 174 comments
3.
N.S.A. Examines Social Networks of U.S. Citizens (nytimes.com)
268 points by weu on Sept 28, 2013 | 97 comments
4.
My time with the Steam Controller (tommyrefenes.tumblr.com)
224 points by zdw on Sept 28, 2013 | 78 comments
5.
Spaced repetition for study and learning (gwern.net)
219 points by gwern on Sept 28, 2013 | 111 comments
6.
Underscore Price Dynamics (marco.org)
209 points by mh_ on Sept 28, 2013 | 87 comments
7.
We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better (nytimes.com)
180 points by jseliger on Sept 28, 2013 | 56 comments
8.
GNU 30th anniversary (gnu.org)
180 points by lelf on Sept 28, 2013 | 16 comments
9.
RegEx101.com now offers a debugger (regex101.com)
155 points by Lindrian on Sept 28, 2013 | 30 comments
10.
Taking PHP Seriously [pdf] (raw.github.com)
129 points by memla on Sept 28, 2013 | 148 comments
11.
How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
124 points by _pius on Sept 28, 2013 | 79 comments
12.
Free Unix (1983) (olduse.net)
122 points by lelf on Sept 28, 2013 | 35 comments
13.
Tarsnap logo contest (tarsnap.com)
113 points by cperciva on Sept 28, 2013 | 125 comments
14.
Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone (schneier.com)
106 points by antsar on Sept 28, 2013 | 20 comments
15.
Gevent For the Working Python Developer (sdiehl.github.io)
100 points by plessthanpt05 on Sept 28, 2013 | 9 comments
16.
The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images (thefacesoffacebook.com)
96 points by dshankar on Sept 28, 2013 | 47 comments
17.
After neighbor’s death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide (japantimes.co.jp)
88 points by kenshiro_o on Sept 28, 2013 | 80 comments
18.
Ripple is officially open source (ripple.com)
92 points by npongratz on Sept 28, 2013 | 43 comments
19.
Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt (theglobeandmail.com)
85 points by r0h1n on Sept 28, 2013 | 88 comments
20.
FTC publishes a long list of questions it wants to ask “patent trolls” (arstechnica.com)
80 points by Suraj-Sun on Sept 28, 2013 | 35 comments
21.
Symbolic Exploit Assistant (SEA) (github.com/neuromancer)
73 points by neur0mancer on Sept 28, 2013 | 8 comments
22.
The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-less Computation (usenix.org)
70 points by ColinWright on Sept 28, 2013 | 7 comments
23.
Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard (1980) (larryniven.net)
70 points by gwern on Sept 28, 2013 | 13 comments
24.
Revenge of the lizard brain (scientificamerican.com)
69 points by biggfoot on Sept 28, 2013 | 22 comments
25.
Is TDD Worth It? (codosaur.us)
58 points by rbanffy on Sept 28, 2013 | 84 comments
26.
Why iOS 7 is making some users sick (theguardian.com)
56 points by jarofgreen on Sept 28, 2013 | 60 comments
27.
Facebook first level interview for Linux admin position (bsdpunk.blogspot.com)
55 points by bsdpunk on Sept 28, 2013 | 70 comments
28.
Keep Saturdays Sacred (steveklabnik.com)
52 points by steveklabnik on Sept 28, 2013 | 18 comments
29.
How I Refresh my memory (cringely.com)
53 points by cyunker on Sept 28, 2013 | 15 comments
30.
McCutcheon: Unlimited Bribery (unlimitedcorruption.com)
51 points by jval on Sept 28, 2013 | 15 comments

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