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31.		DSP in Go (github.com/mjibson)
		116 points by riyadparvez on Aug 19, 2013 \| 17 comments
32.		Groupon Fires Sales Rep Who Threatened Bad Reviews for Business Owner (allthingsd.com)
		108 points by antr on Aug 19, 2013 \| 30 comments
33.		How I Made My Ruby Project 10x Faster (adit.io)
		97 points by jjhageman on Aug 19, 2013 \| 57 comments
34.		How to quickly become effective when joining a new company (drmaciver.com)
		94 points by DRMacIver on Aug 19, 2013 \| 31 comments
35.		Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 (sencha.com)
		92 points by jacobr on Aug 19, 2013 \| 52 comments
36.		Windows 8 Benchmark Records No Longer Accepted (hwbot.org)
		92 points by dz0ny on Aug 19, 2013 \| 29 comments
37.		The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does (theatlanticwire.com)
		93 points by j_baker on Aug 19, 2013 \| 16 comments
38.		Amazon was down (amazon.com)
		88 points by wsidell on Aug 19, 2013 \| 40 comments
39.		Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem (medium.com/what-i-learned-building)
		84 points by gz5 on Aug 19, 2013 \| 63 comments
40.		BlinkDB: Queries with Bounded Errors and Response Times on Very Large Data (blinkdb.org)
		85 points by lightcatcher on Aug 19, 2013 \| 4 comments
41.		Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him (minorplanetcenter.net)
		82 points by hafichuk on Aug 19, 2013 \| 22 comments
42.		Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show (gigaom.com)
		82 points by bdb on Aug 19, 2013 \| 27 comments
43.		The Cryptopocalypse (schneier.com)
		80 points by Garbage on Aug 19, 2013 \| 21 comments
44.		Choosing a payment provider for your Europe-based SaaS startup (gogemba.com)
		73 points by stkhlm on Aug 19, 2013 \| 35 comments
45.		Time for Answers from the NSA (nationalreview.com)
		80 points by t0dd on Aug 19, 2013 \| 12 comments
46.		Understanding Slices in Go (goinggo.net)
		72 points by codezero on Aug 19, 2013 \| 10 comments
47.		[dupe] Glenn Greenwald's partner detained in London for nine hours (slate.com)
		65 points by lisper on Aug 19, 2013 \| 9 comments
48.		Hacker News Tech Hiring Trends (ryan-williams.net)
		63 points by mountaineer on Aug 19, 2013 \| 47 comments
49.		Two Root Causes Of My Recent Depression (feld.com)
		62 points by mindcrime on Aug 19, 2013 \| 39 comments
50.		Where to host .NET applications? (seroter.wordpress.com)
		61 points by richards on Aug 19, 2013 \| 61 comments
51.		Germany Sets Standard for Bitcoin Regulation (bitcoinmagazine.com)
		65 points by guruz on Aug 19, 2013 \| 71 comments
52.		ZeroBrane Studio – Lua IDE with code analyzer, live coding (zerobrane.com)
		58 points by da02 on Aug 19, 2013 \| 12 comments
53.		Black Hole Analogue Discovered in South Atlantic (technologyreview.com)
		58 points by mpweiher on Aug 19, 2013 \| 17 comments
54.		Automation Myths: The NSA Can't Replace 90% of Its System Administrators (oreilly.com)
		56 points by adfm on Aug 19, 2013 \| 18 comments
55.		Genetically modified crops pass benefits to weeds (nature.com)
		53 points by feelthepain on Aug 19, 2013 \| 45 comments
56.		Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy (salon.com)
		54 points by robdoherty2 on Aug 19, 2013 \| 29 comments
57.		Integer Hash Function (1997) (gist.github.com)
		53 points by antirez on Aug 19, 2013 \| 15 comments
58.		Paranoid Browsing (github.com/xodarap)
		51 points by posthumangr on Aug 19, 2013 \| 22 comments
59.		Is the cryptopocalypse nigh? (cryptographyengineering.com)
		53 points by tptacek on Aug 19, 2013 \| 4 comments
60.		[dupe] Husband of NSA-leak reporter held under U.K. terror law (cbc.ca)
		49 points by colinprince on Aug 19, 2013 \| 2 comments
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