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31.		US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say (nbcnews.com)
		104 points by danso on Aug 21, 2013 \| 48 comments
32.		EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras (eff.org)
		103 points by schoen on Aug 21, 2013 \| 5 comments
33.		Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go (indiegogo.com)
		99 points by hmottestad on Aug 21, 2013 \| 68 comments
34.		How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer (krebsonsecurity.com)
		96 points by jessaustin on Aug 21, 2013 \| 31 comments
35.		Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data (relistan.com)
		100 points by jbellis on Aug 21, 2013 \| 81 comments
36.		New Zealand's GCSB spying bill becomes law (3news.co.nz)
		95 points by wlj on Aug 21, 2013 \| 18 comments
37.		Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access (nytimes.com)
		99 points by goatslacker on Aug 21, 2013 \| 65 comments
38.		Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf] (pnas.org)
		90 points by WestCoastJustin on Aug 21, 2013 \| 42 comments
39.		[dupe] Groklaw news website abandoned over US surveillance (bbc.co.uk)
		82 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2013 \| 9 comments
40.		RethinkDB now available on AWS marketplace (rethinkdb.com)
		81 points by coffeemug on Aug 21, 2013 \| 26 comments
41.		29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010) (acs.org)
		77 points by balsam on Aug 21, 2013 \| 65 comments
42.		Why the Only Real Way to Buy Bitcoins Is on the Streets (wired.com)
		79 points by ca98am79 on Aug 21, 2013 \| 33 comments
43.		Let’s Start a Revolution (jan.io)
		71 points by decklin on Aug 21, 2013 \| 25 comments
44.		Willow Garage shutting down (willowgarage.com)
		72 points by mjtokelly on Aug 21, 2013 \| 13 comments
45.		Hacker News has native mobile view (news.ycombinator.com)
		66 points by 8ig8 on Aug 21, 2013 \| 44 comments
46.		Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption (schneier.com)
		68 points by qubitsam on Aug 21, 2013 \| 10 comments
47.		Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program (hackerschool.com)
		65 points by davidbalbert on Aug 21, 2013 \| 6 comments
48.		The Linux Pseudorandom Number Generator Revisited (iacr.org)
		62 points by colinprince on Aug 21, 2013 \| 3 comments
49.		PRSM - The Sharing Network (getprsm.com)
		60 points by donohoe on Aug 21, 2013 \| 6 comments
50.		Bitcoin is a Startup (tlrobinson.net)
		57 points by tlrobinson on Aug 21, 2013 \| 79 comments
51.		Ditch Your Passwords? US Gov To Issue Secure Online IDs (forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt)
		56 points by elleferrer on Aug 21, 2013 \| 74 comments
52.		Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the Universe Just a Giant Computer Simulation? (time.com)
		52 points by Kinnard on Aug 21, 2013 \| 71 comments
53.		Fraudsters target "wire payment switch" at banks to steal millions (scmagazine.com)
		51 points by maskofsanity on Aug 21, 2013 \| 7 comments
54.		WikiLeaks candidate quits upcoming Australian elections (abc.net.au)
		50 points by apapli on Aug 21, 2013 \| 41 comments
55.		Promises/A+ - understanding the spec through implementation (modernjavascript.blogspot.com)
		48 points by shawndumas on Aug 21, 2013 \| 11 comments
56.		Adventures in designing and building a tsunami-proof boat (tsunamiball.com)
		46 points by lisper on Aug 21, 2013 \| 34 comments
57.		Help HN: Dear Apple, why do you sell products in India?
		42 points by jalan on Aug 21, 2013 \| 22 comments
58.		Jolla’s first batch of Sailfish smartphones is fully booked (thenextweb.com)
		40 points by programmerby on Aug 21, 2013 \| 17 comments
59.		Hidden HN Pages
		40 points by bce on Aug 21, 2013 \| 6 comments
60.		Bugsnag API Launch (bugsnag.com)
		43 points by cirwin on Aug 21, 2013 \| 3 comments
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