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31.		MIT Researchers: Printable Keys Make Mechanical Locks Insecure (dailytech.com)
		94 points by geektips on Aug 6, 2013 \| 57 comments
32.		Firefox 23 is available (mozilla.org)
		95 points by lambda_cube on Aug 6, 2013 \| 110 comments
33.		Unsupervised joke generation from big data (acl2013.org)
		91 points by wodow on Aug 6, 2013 \| 69 comments
34.		Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders (soylent.me)
		93 points by ajaymehta on Aug 6, 2013 \| 170 comments
35.		Freenet Project's Statement on the recent Freedom Hosting bust (freenetproject.org)
		93 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 6, 2013 \| 26 comments
36.		Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess (techcrunch.com)
		89 points by colinprince on Aug 6, 2013 \| 57 comments
37.		Never Be a Customer's Doormat (inc.com)
		79 points by bdfh42 on Aug 6, 2013 \| 41 comments
38.		A fast and static web server for serving web apps (shortfin.io)
		77 points by timothy89 on Aug 6, 2013 \| 130 comments
39.		OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead (techcrunch.com)
		79 points by duck on Aug 6, 2013 \| 53 comments
40.		Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consortium (ibm.com)
		79 points by pdknsk on Aug 6, 2013 \| 41 comments
41.		Richard Stallman on proprietary software, SaaS and open source (gigaom.com)
		71 points by pixelmonkey on Aug 6, 2013 \| 43 comments
42.		Bangladesh government to seize control of Grameen Bank (wsj.com)
		73 points by austenallred on Aug 6, 2013 \| 18 comments
43.		Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly (embed.ly)
		68 points by brennannovak on Aug 6, 2013 \| 16 comments
44.		IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
		64 points by dmm on Aug 6, 2013 \| 47 comments
45.		The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The State House (forbes.com/sites/ciocentral)
		61 points by pg on Aug 6, 2013 \| 53 comments
46.		Digital physics (wikipedia.org)
		62 points by xd on Aug 6, 2013 \| 54 comments
47.		Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue (xerox.com)
		61 points by soulclap on Aug 6, 2013 \| 67 comments
48.		OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor (sucuri.net)
		63 points by daviddede on Aug 6, 2013 \| 13 comments
49.		How tech’s young millionaires spend their money (financialpost.com)
		56 points by Futurebot on Aug 6, 2013 \| 32 comments
50.		Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry’s First 3D Vertical NAND Flash (samsung.com)
		57 points by jsnk on Aug 6, 2013 \| 22 comments
51.		Create Your Own Programming Language (createyourproglang.com)
		56 points by shawndumas on Aug 6, 2013 \| 32 comments
52.		US drug agency surveillance unit to be investigated by Department of Justice (theguardian.com)
		56 points by Cbasedlifeform on Aug 6, 2013 \| 7 comments
53.		Patio11 on his 362 day work year & what he does in his break (businessofsoftware.org)
		55 points by marklittlewood on Aug 6, 2013 \| 47 comments
54.		Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop (solaptop.com)
		54 points by fdm on Aug 6, 2013 \| 36 comments
55.		Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have (timcheadle.com)
		53 points by fourspace on Aug 6, 2013 \| 13 comments
56.		Perry Fellwock (wikileaks.org)
		53 points by kefs on Aug 6, 2013 \| 6 comments
57.		Project94 – allocation of 1- and 2-character .org domain names (project94.org)
		51 points by drx on Aug 6, 2013 \| 42 comments
58.		Show HN: I'm writing an ebook about adventure and giving it away for free (adventureplaybook.com)
		47 points by wheresclark on Aug 6, 2013 \| 23 comments
59.		Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead (techcrunch.com)
		47 points by RobAley on Aug 6, 2013 \| 45 comments
60.		WebGL GPU Particles (soulwire.co.uk)
		47 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2013 \| 7 comments
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