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1.		Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. (bloomberg.com)
		391 points by danboarder on July 29, 2013 \| 265 comments
2.		Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go (github.com/golang)
		341 points by sferik on July 29, 2013 \| 97 comments
3.		Tox: secure messaging for everyone (tox.im)
		340 points by NotUncivil on July 29, 2013 \| 199 comments
4.		Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video (arstechnica.com)
		310 points by abraham on July 29, 2013 \| 110 comments
5.		Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now (missingm.co)
		285 points by jlund on July 29, 2013 \| 106 comments
6.		US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent (pcworld.com)
		281 points by Lightning on July 29, 2013 \| 104 comments
7.		Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance (nytimes.com)
		263 points by tippytop on July 29, 2013 \| 30 comments
8.		Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand (bitcoin.co.th)
		236 points by rb2k_ on July 29, 2013 \| 102 comments
9.		GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt (economist.com)
		218 points by douglasfshearer on July 29, 2013 \| 120 comments
10.		Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster (newstatesman.com)
		206 points by tomsaffell on July 29, 2013 \| 131 comments
11.		Ask HN: HN Political News Overload?
		206 points by EzGraphs on July 29, 2013 \| 149 comments
12.		[dupe] Bootstrap 3 (getbootstrap.com)
		194 points by bauerpl on July 29, 2013 \| 85 comments
13.		Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions (valerieaurora.org)
		153 points by tswicegood on July 29, 2013 \| 52 comments
14.		Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week (collisiondetection.net)
		155 points by wglb on July 29, 2013 \| 14 comments
15.		Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video] (bbc.co.uk)
		151 points by schrofer on July 29, 2013 \| 34 comments
16.		Flynn 101% Funded (flynn.io)
		158 points by danielsiders on July 29, 2013 \| 25 comments
17.		Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht (chron.com)
		151 points by antitrust on July 29, 2013 \| 97 comments
18.		Desperate times call for desperate measures (theoldreader.com)
		144 points by jack-r-abbit on July 29, 2013 \| 38 comments
19.		A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows (minardi.org)
		144 points by doctoboggan on July 29, 2013 \| 25 comments
20.		Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives (penny-arcade.com)
		130 points by cobrausn on July 29, 2013 \| 129 comments
21.		Ink – Interface Kit (sapo.pt)
		127 points by rcarmo on July 29, 2013 \| 69 comments
22.		Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (scottaaronson.com)
		125 points by gnosis on July 29, 2013 \| 55 comments
23.		Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs (wgbhnews.org)
		120 points by duggieawesome on July 29, 2013 \| 121 comments
24.		GameBoy Programming Manual (scribd.com)
		120 points by robert-boehnke on July 29, 2013 \| 53 comments
25.		Microsoft Accuses Microsoft of Copyright Infringement (pcworld.com)
		120 points by samspenc on July 29, 2013 \| 34 comments
26.		The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space (kickstarter.com)
		114 points by gurvinder on July 29, 2013 \| 76 comments
27.		Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty (ssrn.com)
		112 points by breck on July 29, 2013 \| 62 comments
28.		"Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report (zdnet.com)
		112 points by zarify on July 29, 2013 \| 134 comments
29.		OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (ieee.org)
		110 points by florent_k on July 29, 2013 \| 62 comments
30.		Down with lifehacking (slate.com)
		106 points by andreipop on July 29, 2013 \| 55 comments
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