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1.		How to Convince Investors (paulgraham.com)
		489 points by johns on Aug 7, 2013 \| 113 comments
2.		Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues (minyanville.com)
		413 points by nickkyit on Aug 7, 2013 \| 179 comments
3.		EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering (eff.org)
		384 points by r0h1n on Aug 7, 2013 \| 77 comments
4.		Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue (statuspage.io)
		357 points by dannyolinsky on Aug 7, 2013 \| 106 comments
5.		Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (washingtonpost.com)
		332 points by Libertatea on Aug 7, 2013 \| 246 comments
6.		Android AOSP maintainer quits (plus.google.com)
		328 points by av500 on Aug 7, 2013 \| 227 comments
7.		I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas (kickoffboost.com)
		318 points by easymode on Aug 7, 2013 \| 105 comments
8.		Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists (salon.com)
		294 points by exit on Aug 7, 2013 \| 177 comments
9.		I cannot afford to go back to engineering school (medium.com/p)
		265 points by ingrid on Aug 7, 2013 \| 270 comments
10.		Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet (schneier.com)
		243 points by hatchan on Aug 7, 2013 \| 117 comments
11.		Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir (adambard.com)
		235 points by philippelh on Aug 7, 2013 \| 103 comments
12.		Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (paulgraham.com)
		211 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2013 \| 90 comments
13.		DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round (techcrunch.com)
		208 points by beigeotter on Aug 7, 2013 \| 109 comments
14.		Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever (thevine.com.au)
		196 points by geektips on Aug 7, 2013 \| 115 comments
15.		Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5 (contextis.co.uk)
		195 points by leetreveil on Aug 7, 2013 \| 46 comments
16.		IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence (reuters.com)
		197 points by muzz on Aug 7, 2013 \| 83 comments
17.		A Tmux Crash Course (2011) (thoughtbot.com)
		177 points by shawndumas on Aug 7, 2013 \| 84 comments
18.		Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native (blog.mozilla.org)
		170 points by evilpie on Aug 7, 2013 \| 75 comments
19.		iPhone logs my complete movement profile (protecus.de)
		158 points by ladino on Aug 7, 2013 \| 112 comments
20.		Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 (msdn.com)
		130 points by novaleaf on Aug 7, 2013 \| 109 comments
21.		Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system (github.com/seliopou)
		119 points by llambda on Aug 7, 2013 \| 21 comments
22.		Envelopes - Python email for humans (tomekwojcik.github.io)
		119 points by RobSpectre on Aug 7, 2013 \| 34 comments
23.		JS-Git (github.com/creationix)
		117 points by dbaupp on Aug 7, 2013 \| 22 comments
24.		All-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California Coast (nytimes.com)
		111 points by Stupendous on Aug 7, 2013 \| 49 comments
25.		America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism (wsj.com)
		104 points by markprovan on Aug 7, 2013 \| 34 comments
26.		Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication (authy.com)
		99 points by cveigt on Aug 7, 2013 \| 34 comments
27.		Blink tag removed from Firefox (mozilla.org)
		101 points by nvr219 on Aug 7, 2013 \| 92 comments
28.		Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript (yz.mit.edu)
		98 points by jashkenas on Aug 7, 2013 \| 30 comments
29.		Profiling Atherton (kentbrew.github.io)
		97 points by kentbrew on Aug 7, 2013 \| 64 comments
30.		Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript (trevoro.net)
		96 points by neilk on Aug 7, 2013 \| 64 comments
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