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1.		Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney (washingtonpost.com)
		448 points by eplanit on July 2, 2013 \| 118 comments
2.		Python Tools for Visual Studio (hanselman.com)
		412 points by numo16 on July 2, 2013 \| 130 comments
3.		Google Reader is dead (google.com)
		388 points by voidfiles on July 2, 2013 \| 211 comments
4.		Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome (slashdot.org)
		323 points by bpierre on July 2, 2013 \| 136 comments
5.		Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” (nczonline.net)
		317 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 \| 185 comments
6.		Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash (slate.com)
		298 points by ctoth on July 2, 2013 \| 219 comments
7.		Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance (eff.org)
		269 points by ndesaulniers on July 2, 2013 \| 60 comments
8.		Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll (toddmoore.com)
		263 points by dave1619 on July 2, 2013 \| 60 comments
9.		Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts (brainpickings.org)
		219 points by pg on July 2, 2013 \| 82 comments
10.		Breaking a Toy Hash Function (twistedoakstudios.com)
		213 points by pizza on July 2, 2013 \| 20 comments
11.		Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean (remcobron.com)
		212 points by remcobron on July 2, 2013 \| 113 comments
12.		Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later (basho.com)
		188 points by kermatt on July 2, 2013 \| 47 comments
13.		Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source) (streak.com)
		170 points by alooPotato on July 2, 2013 \| 98 comments
14.		Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case (latimes.com)
		155 points by scottshea on July 2, 2013 \| 71 comments
15.		The 4 AM Army (time.com)
		147 points by w1ntermute on July 2, 2013 \| 143 comments
16.		Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS (danielwellman.com)
		139 points by pelf on July 2, 2013 \| 18 comments
17.		Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions (vudlab.com)
		139 points by lewis500 on July 2, 2013 \| 37 comments
18.		You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (wired.com)
		138 points by Libertatea on July 2, 2013 \| 144 comments
19.		Pirated Apps in the App Store (lipsky.me)
		134 points by jonlipsky on July 2, 2013 \| 44 comments
20.		Girl buys water, spends night in jail (yahoo.com)
		137 points by commanderj on July 2, 2013 \| 145 comments
21.		Google flights (google.com)
		134 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 \| 65 comments
22.		Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch (spaceflight101.com)
		132 points by antr on July 2, 2013 \| 122 comments
23.		Frameworks Round 6 (techempower.com)
		125 points by amarsahinovic on July 2, 2013 \| 132 comments
24.		Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality just got several fascinating updates (hpmor.com)
		125 points by benhamner on July 2, 2013 \| 99 comments
25.		State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes' (washingtonexaminer.com)
		125 points by stfu on July 2, 2013 \| 35 comments
26.		How We Hit $912 Million in Sales (inc.com)
		122 points by gavreh on July 2, 2013 \| 55 comments
27.		The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses (smiirl.com)
		117 points by Gauhier on July 2, 2013 \| 91 comments
28.		The Underhanded C contest (xcott.com)
		116 points by gnosis on July 2, 2013 \| 11 comments
29.		Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised (ubi.com)
		120 points by bobwaycott on July 2, 2013 \| 100 comments
30.		Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist (scribd.com)
		116 points by dustcoin on July 2, 2013 \| 30 comments
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