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1.
Repository Next (github.com/blog)
392 points by Lightning on June 17, 2013 | 154 comments
2.
How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (yosefk.com)
379 points by edwintorok on June 17, 2013 | 152 comments
3.
Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (aaronwinborn.com)
345 points by ca98am79 on June 17, 2013 | 200 comments
4.
I Know What You Think of Me (nytimes.com)
294 points by jejune06 on June 17, 2013 | 109 comments
5.
European roaming charges will end in 2014 (wired.co.uk)
286 points by morganwilde on June 17, 2013 | 104 comments
6.
Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly (github.com/overv)
285 points by haileys on June 17, 2013 | 47 comments
7.
Cryptography is a science, not engineering (daemonology.net)
249 points by cperciva on June 17, 2013 | 94 comments
8.
Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses (prinzhorn.github.io)
245 points by morphics on June 17, 2013 | 67 comments
9.
NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower [video] (usatoday.com)
233 points by cgshaw on June 17, 2013 | 82 comments
10.
Norwegian backup provider promises NSA-free data storage using Norwegian laws (jottacloud.com)
215 points by jensen2k on June 17, 2013 | 118 comments
11.
Stanford's new course on building a startup (stanford.edu)
210 points by Sami_Lehtinen on June 17, 2013 | 63 comments
12.
 If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP (kalzumeus.com)
198 points by steveklabnik on June 17, 2013 | 104 comments
13.
Digg Reader Update (digg.com)
159 points by coloneltcb on June 17, 2013 | 95 comments
14.
Shakespeare.txt.jpg: A JPEG compression experiment (tomscott.com)
155 points by pavel_lishin on June 17, 2013 | 64 comments
15.
Airbnb vs. Hotels: A Price Comparison (priceonomics.com)
159 points by jejune06 on June 17, 2013 | 89 comments
16.
Priced out of Paris (ft.com)
150 points by bergie on June 17, 2013 | 178 comments
17.
Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants (cnet.com)
149 points by declan on June 17, 2013 | 32 comments
18.
Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy (apple.com)
148 points by nier on June 17, 2013 | 123 comments
19.
Edward Snowden, Ars, the NSA, and me: digging through the past (penny-arcade.com)
142 points by jadell on June 17, 2013 | 31 comments
20.
Effective Technical Leadership (medium.com/tech-talk)
144 points by davidbyttow on June 17, 2013 | 18 comments
21.
Show HN: I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server (tunnelsup.com)
139 points by xs on June 17, 2013 | 32 comments
22.
We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster (medium.com/we-live-in-the-future)
127 points by msrpotus on June 17, 2013 | 165 comments
23.
Obama: If you are a US citizen the NSA can’t listen to your calls (thenextweb.com)
113 points by chrisblackwell on June 17, 2013 | 118 comments
24.
Flippant.js - A mini JS and CSS library for flipping things over (mintchaos.github.io)
108 points by toastdriven on June 17, 2013 | 33 comments
25.
Python Headless Web Browser Scraping on Amazon Linux (fruchterco.com)
102 points by steven5158 on June 17, 2013 | 39 comments
26.
Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk (evernote.com)
100 points by jzellis on June 17, 2013 | 38 comments
27.
Real World OCaml (realworldocaml.org)
99 points by epsylon on June 17, 2013 | 42 comments
28.
China Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U. (nytimes.com)
97 points by teawithcarl on June 17, 2013 | 21 comments
29.
Golang Diaries I (tbray.org)
97 points by richmok on June 17, 2013 | 75 comments
30.
Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy doesn’t exist (thenextweb.com)
88 points by greyman on June 17, 2013 | 15 comments

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