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1.
HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
404 points by uuilly on Aug 4, 2013 | 252 comments
2.
Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA (theguardian.com)
344 points by Libertatea on Aug 4, 2013 | 90 comments
3.
Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested (twitlonger.com)
316 points by DevUps on Aug 4, 2013 | 135 comments
4.
Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA (independent.ie)
299 points by waffle_ss on Aug 4, 2013 | 172 comments
5.
The White Hat's Dilemma (docs.google.com)
255 points by secalex on Aug 4, 2013 | 101 comments
6.
Bradley Manning case stretches credibility of US computer fraud law (theguardian.com)
236 points by Libertatea on Aug 4, 2013 | 62 comments
7.
Ask PG: Why is everybody hellbanned?
222 points by josephpmay on Aug 4, 2013 | 129 comments
8.
Give Manning and Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize (salon.com)
192 points by abdullahkhalids on Aug 4, 2013 | 49 comments
9.
Hands on with Bootstrap 3 - A landing page (williamghelfi.com)
184 points by trumbitta2 on Aug 4, 2013 | 57 comments
10.
Open letter to Sal Khan (christopherdanielson.wordpress.com)
177 points by ColinWright on Aug 4, 2013 | 137 comments
11.
The Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse (slideshare.net)
168 points by oracuk on Aug 4, 2013 | 39 comments
12.
Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors (gigaom.com)
157 points by gmatty on Aug 4, 2013 | 118 comments
13.
Why does Ember.js rock? (kerricklong.com)
162 points by throwa on Aug 4, 2013 | 75 comments
14.
The idea maze (cdixon.org)
141 points by mh_ on Aug 4, 2013 | 29 comments
15.
Tor Freedom Host compromised, JS injected into multiple sites (pastebin.com)
129 points by coolnow on Aug 4, 2013 | 42 comments
16.
Mozilla Playdoh, a web application template based on Django (readthedocs.org)
126 points by ics on Aug 4, 2013 | 23 comments
17.
Rally Against Surveillance today in San Francisco (1984day.com)
125 points by ndesaulniers on Aug 4, 2013 | 36 comments
18.
Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central (nydailynews.com)
119 points by jamesbritt on Aug 4, 2013 | 44 comments
19.
Thoughts on Colocation (blog.pinboard.in)
115 points by anu_gupta on Aug 4, 2013 | 56 comments
20.
The Ecuadorian Library (medium.com/geek-empire-1)
113 points by waterlesscloud on Aug 4, 2013 | 12 comments
21.
University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free (techcrunch.com)
113 points by nahcub on Aug 4, 2013 | 14 comments
22.
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (policymic.com)
111 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 4, 2013 | 55 comments
23.
On Languages, VMs, Optimization, and the Way of the World (headius.com)
90 points by mwcampbell on Aug 4, 2013 | 29 comments
24.
Brief thoughts on Docker (gorsuch.github.io)
92 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 4, 2013 | 35 comments
25.
GitHub and my open source life (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
85 points by jenandre on Aug 4, 2013 | 57 comments
26.
It's the 21st century – why are we working so much? (theguardian.com)
82 points by dmitriy_ko on Aug 4, 2013 | 94 comments
27.
The world is socialist (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
82 points by moonlighter on Aug 4, 2013 | 154 comments
28.
Python 3.4.0 alpha 1 released (python.org)
86 points by frankydp on Aug 4, 2013 | 18 comments
29.
How Android knows it's on an expensive connection (lorier.net)
84 points by sadiq on Aug 4, 2013 | 24 comments
30.
How to support both Python 2 and 3 (ondrejcertik.blogspot.com)
84 points by tshepang on Aug 4, 2013 | 22 comments

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