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1.		NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		339 points by tjaerv on July 31, 2013 \| 208 comments
2.		The entire US Code is now online in XML (house.gov)
		320 points by liscovich on July 31, 2013 \| 237 comments
3.		How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet (slate.com)
		294 points by weston on July 31, 2013 \| 128 comments
4.		Introducing Quip (quip.com)
		298 points by jamesjyu on July 31, 2013 \| 155 comments
5.		The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It (konklone.com)
		273 points by luigi on July 31, 2013 \| 56 comments
6.		Why I Left Medium (kennethreitz.org)
		258 points by jmduke on July 31, 2013 \| 167 comments
7.		Why does Amazon have more books from the 1880s than the 1980s? Blame copyright (washingtonpost.com)
		212 points by Libertatea on July 31, 2013 \| 80 comments
8.		Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4 (anandtech.com)
		216 points by MBCook on July 31, 2013 \| 78 comments
9.		More Encryption Is Not the Solution (acm.org)
		204 points by astaire on July 31, 2013 \| 87 comments
10.		Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains (github.com/frankleenaars)
		201 points by frankl on July 31, 2013 \| 58 comments
11.		Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		197 points by Maxious on July 31, 2013 \| 136 comments
12.		Twelve Go Best Practices (golang.org)
		200 points by chorola on July 31, 2013 \| 151 comments
13.		Give Snowden his due: He made a surveillance debate possible (latimes.com)
		186 points by dllthomas on July 31, 2013 \| 59 comments
14.		Intel's first 'open-source PC' on sale for $199 (computerworld.com)
		178 points by Baustin on July 31, 2013 \| 81 comments
15.		Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years (cnn.com)
		170 points by tocomment on July 31, 2013 \| 105 comments
16.		Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC (github.com/bbc-news)
		158 points by rtfeldman on July 31, 2013 \| 36 comments
17.		Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication (authy.com)
		160 points by cwhitaker01 on July 31, 2013 \| 94 comments
18.		How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition (togo.io)
		154 points by benarent on July 31, 2013 \| 94 comments
19.		Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous (theregister.co.uk)
		137 points by ytNumbers on July 31, 2013 \| 201 comments
20.		Do Not Track is not respected on mozilla.org (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
		140 points by therealunreal on July 31, 2013 \| 109 comments
21.		Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back the company (joystiq.com)
		133 points by bdz on July 31, 2013 \| 86 comments
22.		Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk (alarmingdevelopment.org)
		128 points by jashkenas on July 31, 2013 \| 76 comments
23.		Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in (arstechnica.com)
		127 points by eksith on July 31, 2013 \| 23 comments
24.		FISA court judge: No company has ever challenged Patriot Act sharing (arstechnica.com)
		125 points by rosser on July 31, 2013 \| 27 comments
25.		1984 Day - Rally Against Surveillance (1984day.com)
		136 points by sinak on July 31, 2013 \| 26 comments
26.		Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face (uzh.ch)
		118 points by ca98am79 on July 31, 2013 \| 56 comments
27.		RethinkDB: new documentation site, cookbook with examples, practical guides (rethinkdb.com)
		109 points by mglukhovsky on July 31, 2013 \| 28 comments
28.		From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition (insightdatascience.com)
		101 points by jakek on July 31, 2013 \| 87 comments
29.		We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing (arin.net)
		97 points by samuelkadolph on July 31, 2013 \| 115 comments
30.		Servers of Hacker News (pwd.io)
		95 points by euphemize on July 31, 2013 \| 61 comments
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