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1.
Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line (jeroenjanssens.com)
457 points by jeroenjanssens on Aug 17, 2013 | 144 comments
2.
Facebook vulnerability 2013 (khalil-sh.blogspot.com)
400 points by khalilshr on Aug 17, 2013 | 255 comments
3.
Groupon sales rep threatens restaurant with negative Yelp reviews (facebook.com)
383 points by gregman on Aug 17, 2013 | 170 comments
4.
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)
370 points by mrmaddog on Aug 17, 2013 | 66 comments
5.
Rotating Images (datagenetics.com)
355 points by deletes on Aug 17, 2013 | 44 comments
6.
Reshaping New York (nytimes.com)
332 points by danso on Aug 17, 2013 | 128 comments
7.
Why I left Google (medium.com/editors-picks)
288 points by chauzer on Aug 17, 2013 | 212 comments
8.
Lossy PNG (pngmini.com)
252 points by pornel on Aug 17, 2013 | 61 comments
9.
Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process (hackaday.com)
240 points by angersock on Aug 17, 2013 | 55 comments
10.
NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it and end wrongheaded war on pot (theguardian.com)
222 points by ingve on Aug 17, 2013 | 139 comments
11.
Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand (newyorker.com)
185 points by phreeza on Aug 17, 2013 | 128 comments
12.
Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files (facebook.com)
187 points by jlgreco on Aug 17, 2013 | 106 comments
13.
I asked the NSA for its file on me, and here's what I got back (dailydot.com)
178 points by beshrkayali on Aug 17, 2013 | 96 comments
14.
Callbacks are Pretty Okay (andrewkelley.me)
155 points by AndyKelley on Aug 17, 2013 | 159 comments
15.
The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (2011) (wired.com)
150 points by jalanco on Aug 17, 2013 | 42 comments
16.
What I Learned by Going It Alone (iancackett.wordpress.com)
132 points by iancackett on Aug 17, 2013 | 35 comments
17.
Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (2004) (eaipatterns.com)
119 points by gejjaxxita on Aug 17, 2013 | 36 comments
18.
NSA revelations of privacy breaches 'tip of the iceberg' according to Senators (theguardian.com)
121 points by sinak on Aug 17, 2013 | 21 comments
19.
Do I Really Want All This Stuff? (medium.com/editors-picks)
102 points by georgebonnr on Aug 17, 2013 | 85 comments
20.
Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool written in Go (github.com/tsenart)
99 points by tsenart on Aug 17, 2013 | 27 comments
21.
B+ Trees and why I love them, part 1 (ayende.com)
97 points by rayvega on Aug 17, 2013 | 31 comments
22.
EFF's HTTPS Everywhere removed from Chrome app store (chrome.google.com)
85 points by zurn on Aug 17, 2013 | 33 comments
23.
A Secret Race for Abandoned Nuclear Material (nytimes.com)
82 points by dctoedt on Aug 17, 2013 | 49 comments
24.
C Ints are Finite Numbers (freebsdish.org)
79 points by anon1385 on Aug 17, 2013 | 24 comments
25.
Clojure Debugger? (deliberate-software.com)
77 points by JackMorgan on Aug 17, 2013 | 7 comments
26.
Hopscotch – easy product tours by LinkedIn (linkedin.github.io)
75 points by jmduke on Aug 17, 2013 | 14 comments
27.
Open source as a civic duty (jeremyckahn.github.io)
73 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 17, 2013 | 40 comments
28.
Google goes dark for 2 minutes (theregister.co.uk)
68 points by x1sc0 on Aug 17, 2013 | 24 comments
29.
Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (1953) (newyorker.com)
57 points by npalli on Aug 17, 2013 | 26 comments
30.
FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only (techcrunch.com)
55 points by mittal on Aug 17, 2013 | 16 comments

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