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1.		Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe' (bbc.co.uk)
		374 points by Libertatea on Aug 22, 2013 \| 255 comments
2.		Nginx Plus (nginx.com)
		340 points by Aqua_Geek on Aug 22, 2013 \| 141 comments
3.		Linux may have been causing USB disconnects (plus.google.com)
		331 points by chalst on Aug 22, 2013 \| 116 comments
4.		The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act (theguardian.com)
		305 points by jacquesm on Aug 22, 2013 \| 66 comments
5.		Why does NASA use gold foil on equipment and gold-coated visors? (physics.stackexchange.com)
		281 points by jonbaer on Aug 22, 2013 \| 114 comments
6.		Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy (wekeroad.com)
		272 points by EvilTrout on Aug 22, 2013 \| 200 comments
7.		In California, a Champion for Police Cameras (nytimes.com)
		262 points by raldi on Aug 22, 2013 \| 118 comments
8.		Four fears for authoritarians (paulbernal.wordpress.com)
		263 points by wlj on Aug 22, 2013 \| 126 comments
9.		Selling Software To Large Businesses (kalzumeus.com)
		227 points by gasull on Aug 22, 2013 \| 56 comments
10.		Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet (wired.com)
		214 points by engtech on Aug 22, 2013 \| 76 comments
11.		Github now supports rendering tabular data (github.com/blog)
		200 points by makeramen on Aug 22, 2013 \| 57 comments
12.		The Man Who Invented Modern Probability (nautil.us)
		185 points by tchalla on Aug 22, 2013 \| 71 comments
13.		Coursera-dl – A script for downloading course material from coursera.org (github.com/dgorissen)
		184 points by carlosgg on Aug 22, 2013 \| 70 comments
14.		Firebug 1.12 – New Features (hacks.mozilla.org)
		183 points by tmister on Aug 22, 2013 \| 36 comments
15.		Light Table 0.5.0 (chris-granger.com)
		180 points by ibdknox on Aug 22, 2013 \| 54 comments
16.		Yahoo tops Google in US traffic (cnet.com)
		177 points by zher on Aug 22, 2013 \| 149 comments
17.		Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly (bbc.co.uk)
		165 points by choult on Aug 22, 2013 \| 21 comments
18.		D3 3.3 Released (github.com/mbostock)
		166 points by mbostock on Aug 22, 2013 \| 57 comments
19.		Hack your motivation (bemmu.com)
		159 points by micrypt on Aug 22, 2013 \| 41 comments
20.		Censorship Doesn’t Just Stifle Speech – It Can Spread Disease (wired.com)
		149 points by Blahah on Aug 22, 2013 \| 16 comments
21.		Trading Halted in Nasdaq-Listed Securities Due to Technical Issue (wsj.com)
		140 points by tomorgan on Aug 22, 2013 \| 49 comments
22.		US court rules masking IP address to access blocked Website violates law (zdnet.com)
		138 points by tanglesome on Aug 22, 2013 \| 116 comments
23.		[dupe] German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA (investmentwatchblog.com)
		139 points by devx on Aug 22, 2013 \| 45 comments
24.		Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice (europa.eu)
		138 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 22, 2013 \| 85 comments
25.		Apple Buys Another Map App, Embark (jessicalessin.com)
		133 points by _pius on Aug 22, 2013 \| 45 comments
26.		The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less (wsj.com)
		121 points by sonabinu on Aug 22, 2013 \| 119 comments
27.		What Manning Revealed (gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com)
		116 points by austengary on Aug 22, 2013 \| 25 comments
28.		Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s (technologyreview.com)
		112 points by Peteris on Aug 22, 2013 \| 20 comments
29.		An Open Letter to My Former NSA Colleagues (slate.com)
		106 points by pivnicek on Aug 22, 2013 \| 20 comments
30.		The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis (vice.com)
		101 points by qubitsam on Aug 22, 2013 \| 27 comments
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