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1.		Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested (teslamotors.com)
		814 points by turing on Aug 20, 2013 \| 301 comments
2.		Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping (theguardian.com)
		706 points by tehmaco on Aug 20, 2013 \| 233 comments
3.		NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars (ricostacruz.com)
		597 points by ianstormtaylor on Aug 20, 2013 \| 140 comments
4.		[dupe] UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives (pressfreedomfoundation.org)
		429 points by spurgu on Aug 20, 2013 \| 135 comments
5.		Tesla Model X (teslamotors.com)
		379 points by m0th87 on Aug 20, 2013 \| 244 comments
6.		Don't reinvent the scrollbar (bbrks.me)
		348 points by bbrks on Aug 20, 2013 \| 167 comments
7.		Mailpile – taking e-mail back (indiegogo.com)
		334 points by tim_hutton on Aug 20, 2013 \| 151 comments
8.		A Wretched Google Interview Experience (symbo1ics.com)
		293 points by reikonomusha on Aug 20, 2013 \| 337 comments
9.		Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative (freelists.org)
		293 points by rumcajz on Aug 20, 2013 \| 114 comments
10.		Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches (washingtonpost.com)
		280 points by eplanit on Aug 20, 2013 \| 109 comments
11.		Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB? (electronics.stackexchange.com)
		264 points by dchester195 on Aug 20, 2013 \| 125 comments
12.		An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js (modulus.io)
		257 points by zwigby on Aug 20, 2013 \| 66 comments
13.		Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git (github.com/fredriknoren)
		243 points by rplnt on Aug 20, 2013 \| 65 comments
14.		Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud (github.com/al3x)
		216 points by spullara on Aug 20, 2013 \| 60 comments
15.		Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo (purecss.io)
		195 points by isla-de-encanta on Aug 20, 2013 \| 44 comments
16.		I just want to say "fuck everything", hold up my hands and walk away. (werd.io)
		184 points by benwerd on Aug 20, 2013 \| 179 comments
17.		Coroutines in one page of C (embeddedrelated.com)
		180 points by mbrubeck on Aug 20, 2013 \| 60 comments
18.		[dupe] David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation' (bbc.co.uk)
		180 points by RobAley on Aug 20, 2013 \| 36 comments
19.		CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup (gwu.edu)
		165 points by tareqak on Aug 20, 2013 \| 142 comments
20.		Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings (moz.com)
		146 points by giorgiofontana on Aug 20, 2013 \| 97 comments
21.		Crosswords don’t make you clever (economist.com)
		136 points by nitins on Aug 20, 2013 \| 73 comments
22.		Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1 (techcrunch.com)
		132 points by zaveri on Aug 20, 2013 \| 41 comments
23.		Medium Sucks (codingjohnson.com)
		129 points by gringofyx on Aug 20, 2013 \| 42 comments
24.		John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) (uw.edu)
		123 points by hypr_geek on Aug 20, 2013 \| 42 comments
25.		EVA 23: Exploring the frontier (esa.int)
		120 points by wallflower on Aug 20, 2013 \| 9 comments
26.		David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation' (bbc.co.uk)
		119 points by _airh on Aug 20, 2013 \| 49 comments
27.		The Great App.net Mistake (wired.com)
		120 points by sylvinus on Aug 20, 2013 \| 65 comments
28.		Wikipedia: Size in volumes (wikipedia.org)
		112 points by dpcx on Aug 20, 2013 \| 41 comments
29.		Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree (bloomberg.com)
		119 points by hkimura on Aug 20, 2013 \| 83 comments
30.		Hours until NZ spy law passed. Contact your MP. (crossthefloor.co.nz)
		109 points by wlj on Aug 20, 2013 \| 20 comments
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