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1.		Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus (hankboughtabus.com)
		944 points by frans on Aug 23, 2013 \| 197 comments
2.		Schema migrations merged into Django master (github.com/django)
		394 points by Spiritus on Aug 23, 2013 \| 108 comments
3.		How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen (gluster.org)
		364 points by danparsonson on Aug 23, 2013 \| 166 comments
4.		Just Delete Me (robblewis.me)
		341 points by decklin on Aug 23, 2013 \| 69 comments
5.		The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline (slate.com)
		279 points by probabilistic on Aug 23, 2013 \| 220 comments
6.		NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies (theguardian.com)
		264 points by uptown on Aug 23, 2013 \| 75 comments
7.		Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever (techcrunch.com)
		244 points by linux_devil on Aug 23, 2013 \| 172 comments
8.		The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (smithsonianmag.com)
		228 points by danso on Aug 23, 2013 \| 86 comments
9.		UK government now leaking documents about itself (theguardian.com)
		210 points by MarcScott on Aug 23, 2013 \| 72 comments
10.		OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor (openstreetmap.org)
		209 points by jboynyc on Aug 23, 2013 \| 33 comments
11.		Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig (arstechnica.com)
		195 points by comex on Aug 23, 2013 \| 31 comments
12.		Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON (github.com/martinblech)
		186 points by dagw on Aug 23, 2013 \| 51 comments
13.		How to Make Perfect Coffee (theatlantic.com)
		185 points by jonbaer on Aug 23, 2013 \| 122 comments
14.		Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (hbr.org)
		182 points by AndrewDucker on Aug 23, 2013 \| 125 comments
15.		Micromort (wikipedia.org)
		173 points by georgecmu on Aug 23, 2013 \| 99 comments
16.		Yeoman 1.0 Released (yeoman.io)
		172 points by hswolff on Aug 23, 2013 \| 55 comments
17.		Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms (washingtonpost.com)
		175 points by Libertatea on Aug 23, 2013 \| 70 comments
18.		Groundwater Contamination May End the Gas-Fracking Boom (scientificamerican.com)
		158 points by zzzeek on Aug 23, 2013 \| 106 comments
19.		How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers (fastcolabs.com)
		148 points by robbyking on Aug 23, 2013 \| 150 comments
20.		New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom (arstechnica.com)
		144 points by discostrings on Aug 23, 2013 \| 34 comments
21.		Tesla is unable to sell its vehicles directly to the public in Texas (teslamotors.com)
		139 points by dylangs1030 on Aug 23, 2013 \| 81 comments
22.		1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology. (smithsonianmag.com)
		120 points by abolishme on Aug 23, 2013 \| 80 comments
23.		Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django) (bountysource.com)
		125 points by mhluongo on Aug 23, 2013 \| 38 comments
24.		Docker 0.6: Events API, registry improvements, expert mode, security updates. (docker.io)
		128 points by nickstinemates on Aug 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
25.		Uber for Everything (diegobasch.com)
		114 points by jamesjyu on Aug 23, 2013 \| 127 comments
26.		Chess written in sed (github.com/bolknote)
		112 points by tphd on Aug 23, 2013 \| 51 comments
27.		Compiling to Lua (cloudflare.com)
		115 points by jgrahamc on Aug 23, 2013 \| 35 comments
28.		59% of the 'Tuna' Americans Eat Is Not Tuna (theatlantic.com)
		101 points by jaequery on Aug 23, 2013 \| 98 comments
29.		Additional $2.1M Seized from Mt. Gox Accounts – Now Over $5M Total (thegenesisblock.com)
		102 points by cgi_man on Aug 23, 2013 \| 62 comments
30.		No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		101 points by thijser on Aug 23, 2013 \| 43 comments
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