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1.		Startup lessons (defmacro.org)
		551 points by coffeemug on Aug 14, 2013 \| 163 comments
2.		JavaScript right on the hardware (technical.io)
		346 points by chinchang on Aug 14, 2013 \| 313 comments
3.		Google Treks (google.com)
		345 points by ricg on Aug 14, 2013 \| 106 comments
4.		40 Days Without Booze (jdmoyer.com)
		308 points by stock_toaster on Aug 14, 2013 \| 274 comments
5.		Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		276 points by cgi_man on Aug 14, 2013 \| 129 comments
6.		Encryption is less secure than we thought (mit.edu)
		268 points by qubitsam on Aug 14, 2013 \| 72 comments
7.		Google Open-Sources Gumbo: C Library for Parsing HTML5 (github.com/google)
		262 points by bryanh on Aug 14, 2013 \| 59 comments
8.		How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane (medium.com/war-is-boring)
		239 points by pvilchez on Aug 14, 2013 \| 341 comments
9.		From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months (medium.com/who-what-why)
		238 points by gozmike on Aug 14, 2013 \| 54 comments
10.		Show HN: TextIt – Visually build SMS applications anywhere in the world (textit.in)
		222 points by nicpottier on Aug 14, 2013 \| 62 comments
11.		Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits (scientificamerican.com)
		218 points by azsromej on Aug 14, 2013 \| 135 comments
12.		Steam-powered Blender (blender.org)
		209 points by conductor on Aug 14, 2013 \| 85 comments
13.		A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop (pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com)
		171 points by anologwintermut on Aug 14, 2013 \| 114 comments
14.		Go as an alternative to Node.js for very fast servers (studygolang.com)
		176 points by g0lden on Aug 14, 2013 \| 162 comments
15.		What I learned from others' shell scripts (fizerkhan.com)
		173 points by fizerkhan on Aug 14, 2013 \| 94 comments
16.		Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless (hanselman.com)
		173 points by kevin_morrill on Aug 14, 2013 \| 135 comments
17.		Google Maps easter egg: street view inside the Tardis (maps.google.com)
		168 points by crb on Aug 14, 2013 \| 38 comments
18.		Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike? (pbs.org)
		162 points by uladzislau on Aug 14, 2013 \| 82 comments
19.		What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relativity (scientificamerican.com)
		140 points by halostatue on Aug 14, 2013 \| 43 comments
20.		Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance (eff.org)
		144 points by ferdo on Aug 14, 2013 \| 11 comments
21.		New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		132 points by blueveek on Aug 14, 2013 \| 25 comments
22.		I rewrote my blog in Go (ironzebra.com)
		132 points by hermanschaaf on Aug 14, 2013 \| 74 comments
23.		Metaprogramming – Julia Language (julialang.org)
		127 points by susi22 on Aug 14, 2013 \| 52 comments
24.		How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		119 points by taylorbuley on Aug 14, 2013 \| 79 comments
25.		Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists (npr.org)
		111 points by Articulate on Aug 14, 2013 \| 56 comments
26.		GNU Parallel – The command line power tool (slideshare.net)
		106 points by vsbuffalo on Aug 14, 2013 \| 28 comments
27.		Improbable research: London to Edinburgh in five exciting minutes (theguardian.com)
		106 points by misnome on Aug 14, 2013 \| 43 comments
28.		Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs (cnn.com)
		89 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 14, 2013 \| 61 comments
29.		San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth (latimes.com)
		88 points by dmckeon on Aug 14, 2013 \| 140 comments
30.		No, Google did not say that there is no privacy in Gmail (thenextweb.com)
		86 points by makomk on Aug 14, 2013 \| 19 comments
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