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1.		We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012) (stackoverflow.com)
		661 points by ambuj on Aug 1, 2013 \| 236 comments
2.		Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport (rt.com)
		527 points by message on Aug 1, 2013 \| 492 comments
3.		Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my (medium.com/something-like-falling)
		514 points by steveklabnik on Aug 1, 2013 \| 273 comments
4.		Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second (techcrunch.com)
		460 points by Osiris on Aug 1, 2013 \| 253 comments
5.		Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users (delyan.me)
		447 points by ZoFreX on Aug 1, 2013 \| 155 comments
6.		[dupe] Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds (theatlanticwire.com)
		428 points by pg on Aug 1, 2013 \| 215 comments
7.		Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented (priceonomics.com)
		402 points by pisarzp on Aug 1, 2013 \| 79 comments
8.		In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity (nytimes.com)
		274 points by kmfrk on Aug 1, 2013 \| 97 comments
9.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
		279 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2013 \| 385 comments
10.		Forebruary, an endless wall calendar (ilyabirman.net)
		247 points by ilyabirman on Aug 1, 2013 \| 101 comments
11.		Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy (pachamama.org)
		243 points by samspenc on Aug 1, 2013 \| 188 comments
12.		New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages (arstechnica.com)
		233 points by jamescun on Aug 1, 2013 \| 55 comments
13.		A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites (hanselman.com)
		221 points by DevKoala on Aug 1, 2013 \| 69 comments
14.		PEP 8 Modernisation (python.org)
		213 points by tristaneuan on Aug 1, 2013 \| 141 comments
15.		Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not Google (techcrunch.com)
		187 points by coloneltcb on Aug 1, 2013 \| 116 comments
16.		The Belt CPU Architecture (ootbcomp.com)
		183 points by momerath on Aug 1, 2013 \| 79 comments
17.		Compilers in OpenBSD (marc.info)
		171 points by hebz0rl on Aug 1, 2013 \| 74 comments
18.		Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana (csmonitor.com)
		178 points by anigbrowl on Aug 1, 2013 \| 65 comments
19.		John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream (twitch.tv)
		167 points by ivank on Aug 1, 2013 \| 47 comments
20.		Basics Of Function Pointers In C (denniskubes.com)
		160 points by giis on Aug 1, 2013 \| 57 comments
21.		Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000) (amazon.com)
		155 points by adambratt on Aug 1, 2013 \| 101 comments
22.		NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ (theguardian.com)
		153 points by colin_jack on Aug 1, 2013 \| 59 comments
23.		YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital (techcrunch.com)
		147 points by immad on Aug 1, 2013 \| 35 comments
24.		How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup (speakeasy.is)
		140 points by kevinbracken on Aug 1, 2013 \| 112 comments
25.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)
		135 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2013 \| 161 comments
26.		In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning (newyorker.com)
		139 points by soneca on Aug 1, 2013 \| 19 comments
27.		Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2 weeks ago (washingtonpost.com)
		132 points by steveklabnik on Aug 1, 2013 \| 99 comments
28.		"Accidentally" Freelance (unwieldy.net)
		123 points by endtwist on Aug 1, 2013 \| 55 comments
29.		Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
		117 points by dhotson on Aug 1, 2013 \| 4 comments
30.		PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		113 points by bivab on Aug 1, 2013 \| 8 comments
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