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1.		A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 (thisiscolossal.com)
		596 points by tvladeck on July 24, 2013 \| 136 comments
2.		Google Chromecast (google.com)
		578 points by Zaheer on July 24, 2013 \| 315 comments
3.		Why I cancelled my TechEd talks (goodenoughsoftware.net)
		495 points by ohjeez on July 24, 2013 \| 178 comments
4.		Practical Typography (practicaltypography.com)
		472 points by dchest on July 24, 2013 \| 159 comments
5.		Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now (rt.com)
		413 points by message on July 24, 2013 \| 221 comments
6.		LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than assembly (popcount.org)
		312 points by majke on July 24, 2013 \| 220 comments
7.		Amash’s Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217 (techcrunch.com)
		291 points by llamataboot on July 24, 2013 \| 159 comments
8.		How Emacs changed my life (slideshare.net)
		281 points by afshinmeh on July 24, 2013 \| 89 comments
9.		Ractive.js (ractivejs.org)
		264 points by dave1010uk on July 24, 2013 \| 112 comments
10.		Essential Math for Games Programmers (essentialmath.com)
		264 points by Baustin on July 24, 2013 \| 38 comments
11.		Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys (cnet.com)
		253 points by antman on July 24, 2013 \| 130 comments
12.		Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet (techcrunch.com)
		244 points by talhof8 on July 24, 2013 \| 167 comments
13.		What's new in Android 4.3 (android.com)
		239 points by sindhiparsani on July 24, 2013 \| 122 comments
14.		Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level (indiegogo.com)
		219 points by madmaze on July 24, 2013 \| 148 comments
15.		Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger (ministryoftruth.me.uk)
		195 points by anu_gupta on July 24, 2013 \| 150 comments
16.		Twilio incident and Redis (antirez.com)
		188 points by flyingyeti on July 24, 2013 \| 73 comments
17.		White House Seems Afraid NSA Defunding Law Could Actually Pass Today (techcrunch.com)
		182 points by mlschmitt23 on July 24, 2013 \| 84 comments
18.		Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room (techcrunch.com)
		177 points by harryzhang on July 24, 2013 \| 166 comments
19.		Embrace the desire to make money (swombat.com)
		123 points by swombat on July 24, 2013 \| 114 comments
20.		[dupe] Ubuntu Edge lowers prices on IndieGogo
		114 points by thejosh on July 24, 2013 \| 39 comments
21.		NSA - The Price of Hypocrisy (faz.net)
		117 points by spdy on July 24, 2013 \| 30 comments
22.		Lean Startups fail for these 3 reasons, but they didn’t tell you in the book (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
		113 points by daegloe on July 24, 2013 \| 39 comments
23.		Twitter caught faking users’ tweets (venturebeat.com)
		111 points by cahitonur on July 24, 2013 \| 53 comments
24.		How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010) (aaroniba.net)
		106 points by vsbuffalo on July 24, 2013 \| 79 comments
25.		This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos (io9.com)
		100 points by aditya on July 24, 2013 \| 62 comments
26.		Apple Developer System Status (developer.apple.com)
		98 points by kroger on July 24, 2013 \| 67 comments
27.		Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell – online beta (oreilly.com)
		98 points by lelf on July 24, 2013 \| 6 comments
28.		Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here (xamarin.com)
		85 points by aespinoza on July 24, 2013 \| 47 comments
29.		Billing Incident Post-Mortem: Breakdown, Analysis and Root Cause (twilio.com)
		77 points by RobSpectre on July 24, 2013 \| 31 comments
30.		Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site (news.com.au)
		75 points by Bharath1234 on July 24, 2013 \| 49 comments
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