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1.
Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (cnn.com)
591 points by tptacek on Aug 8, 2013 | 363 comments
2.
Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' (aljazeera.com)
332 points by filipmaertens on Aug 8, 2013 | 187 comments
3.
Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users (identity.mozilla.com)
346 points by callahad on Aug 8, 2013 | 118 comments
4.
Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695 (indiegogo.com)
320 points by davidjgraph on Aug 8, 2013 | 153 comments
5.
Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox (jwz.org)
309 points by mfincham on Aug 8, 2013 | 146 comments
6.
Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle (wired.com)
293 points by bcl on Aug 8, 2013 | 88 comments
7.
I quit my job (madebyloren.com)
289 points by guynamedloren on Aug 8, 2013 | 189 comments
8.
Hacker News Web App for Mobile (premii.com)
239 points by EtienneK on Aug 8, 2013 | 160 comments
9.
Shutting Down a Dream (dandreamsofcoding.com)
231 points by bratfarrar on Aug 8, 2013 | 81 comments
10.
GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud (mediagoblin.org)
224 points by diminish on Aug 8, 2013 | 68 comments
11.
Donate to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund (paypal.com)
204 points by sethbannon on Aug 8, 2013 | 46 comments
12.
Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions (stuartkhall.com)
188 points by vlbeta on Aug 8, 2013 | 62 comments
13.
New Rust runtime turned on. What next? (mail.mozilla.org)
186 points by usea on Aug 8, 2013 | 114 comments
14.
Patent Troll Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business (marco.org)
176 points by ghshephard on Aug 8, 2013 | 41 comments
15.
Russia's Mark Zuckerberg offers Snowden a job. (cnn.com)
177 points by teawithcarl on Aug 8, 2013 | 105 comments
16.
Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart (joyent.com)
167 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 8, 2013 | 33 comments
17.
Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands? (bbc.co.uk)
164 points by Libertatea on Aug 8, 2013 | 159 comments
18.
Enterprise Sales Tips for Hackers (brandonb.cc)
159 points by brandonb on Aug 8, 2013 | 72 comments
19.
Amazon's profits (ben-evans.com)
159 points by barista on Aug 8, 2013 | 144 comments
20.
Create a font from your own handwriting (myscriptfont.com)
149 points by loki_dx on Aug 8, 2013 | 64 comments
21.
The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill (economist.com)
140 points by qingu on Aug 8, 2013 | 76 comments
22.
End to end encrypted email, based in Sweden (countermail.com)
142 points by jstalin on Aug 8, 2013 | 73 comments
23.
 [dupe] Mail provider allegedly used by Snowden suspending operations (72.249.41.52)
134 points by subsystem on Aug 8, 2013 | 31 comments
24.
Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math (skibinsky.com)
132 points by jamesmiller5 on Aug 8, 2013 | 25 comments
25.
Getting to Docker 1.0 (docker.io)
139 points by julien421 on Aug 8, 2013 | 38 comments
26.
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007) (wired.com)
127 points by computer on Aug 8, 2013 | 46 comments
27.
How to build a procedural city in WebGL (learningthreejs.com)
121 points by jetienne2 on Aug 8, 2013 | 19 comments
28.
Professor's apparent request to student for fake data published by mistake (chembark.com)
112 points by apo on Aug 8, 2013 | 47 comments
29.
Queueing in the Linux Network Stack (coverfire.com)
110 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 8, 2013 | 8 comments
30.
Exposing Patent Trolls (rackspace.com)
115 points by grimey27 on Aug 8, 2013 | 13 comments

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