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1.		The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden (washingtonpost.com)
		427 points by Libertatea on Aug 10, 2013 \| 235 comments
2.		Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It' (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
		386 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 10, 2013 \| 185 comments
3.		Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python (readthedocs.org)
		303 points by sloria on Aug 10, 2013 \| 46 comments
4.		How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound (jacklinstudios.com)
		300 points by anewcolor on Aug 10, 2013 \| 69 comments
5.		Text-based terminal screencasts (showterm.io)
		293 points by daw___ on Aug 10, 2013 \| 51 comments
6.		Vim 7.4 is released (vim.org)
		245 points by sramsay on Aug 10, 2013 \| 124 comments
7.		How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine (smithsonianmag.com)
		235 points by Libertatea on Aug 10, 2013 \| 162 comments
8.		Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox (techcrunch.com)
		167 points by kunle on Aug 10, 2013 \| 58 comments
9.		What makes Lua tick? (lua-users.org)
		154 points by da02 on Aug 10, 2013 \| 108 comments
10.		Learn Emacs and Lisp with simple, bite-sized screencasts (emacsbites.com)
		142 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2013 \| 36 comments
11.		Woody Allen: What I've learned (esquire.com)
		135 points by npalli on Aug 10, 2013 \| 56 comments
12.		The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud (washingtonpost.com)
		134 points by blumentopf on Aug 10, 2013 \| 35 comments
13.		How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company (newyorker.com)
		133 points by Expeck on Aug 10, 2013 \| 44 comments
14.		Homes for Hackers gets a visit from the FBI (banterant.com)
		137 points by bogrollben on Aug 10, 2013 \| 108 comments
15.		Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship (torrentfreak.com)
		119 points by derpenxyne on Aug 10, 2013 \| 41 comments
16.		Firebase 404 (firebase.com)
		118 points by ca98am79 on Aug 10, 2013 \| 26 comments
17.		Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years (technologyreview.com)
		112 points by codesuela on Aug 10, 2013 \| 81 comments
18.		"To come up with something truly original, you have to ignore common sense." (vooza.com)
		108 points by balsam on Aug 10, 2013 \| 25 comments
19.		Bootstrap-switch (bootstrap-switch.org)
		101 points by nostalgiaz on Aug 10, 2013 \| 46 comments
20.		The Factoring Cryptopocalypse (daemonology.net)
		101 points by cperciva on Aug 10, 2013 \| 24 comments
21.		Show HN: An open-source media hosting site that's anonymous and fast (mediacru.sh)
		95 points by jdiez17 on Aug 10, 2013 \| 57 comments
22.		Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi (bell-labs.com)
		96 points by synchronise on Aug 10, 2013 \| 65 comments
23.		Getting started with Clojure (aheusingfeld.github.io)
		92 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2013 \| 48 comments
24.		How Bad is DOM Interaction Really? (andyshora.com)
		90 points by andyshora on Aug 10, 2013 \| 33 comments
25.		SSD myths and legends: write endurance (storagesearch.com)
		88 points by wslh on Aug 10, 2013 \| 76 comments
26.		Super Mario Melodies (2011) (losdoggies.com)
		84 points by kanamekun on Aug 10, 2013 \| 9 comments
27.		Why isn't there a Kickstarter for killing patents? (galenward.com)
		88 points by EAKoester on Aug 10, 2013 \| 66 comments
28.		E-mail's Big Privacy Problem: Q&A With Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann (forbes.com/sites/parmyolson)
		80 points by 2a0c40 on Aug 10, 2013 \| 50 comments
29.		The Animals are Also Getting Fat (marginalrevolution.com)
		69 points by yummyfajitas on Aug 10, 2013 \| 38 comments
30.		Why functional programming? Why Haskell? (realworldhaskell.org)
		63 points by tosh on Aug 10, 2013 \| 83 comments
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