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1.
I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. (nytimes.com)
296 points by clbrook on Aug 25, 2013 | 243 comments
2.
NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show (gigaom.com)
282 points by electic on Aug 25, 2013 | 108 comments
3.
Nimrod: C + Macros + GC (nimrod-code.org)
211 points by norswap on Aug 25, 2013 | 111 comments
4.
Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying (eff.org)
193 points by espeed on Aug 25, 2013 | 27 comments
5.
JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator (parall.ax)
191 points by smanuel on Aug 25, 2013 | 67 comments
6.
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater (nytimes.com)
175 points by zdean on Aug 25, 2013 | 183 comments
7.
On the Cleverness of Compilers (radul.name)
169 points by nkurz on Aug 25, 2013 | 54 comments
8.
GitLab 6.0 Released (blog.gitlab.org)
168 points by conductor on Aug 25, 2013 | 88 comments
9.
List of freely available programming books (stackoverflow.com)
157 points by S4M on Aug 25, 2013 | 31 comments
10.
Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity (garthontech.blogspot.ca)
140 points by RandyRanderson on Aug 25, 2013 | 145 comments
11.
This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer (nycfreshmarket.com)
131 points by talhof8 on Aug 25, 2013 | 148 comments
12.
How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit (jameslarisch.com)
126 points by dysruption on Aug 25, 2013 | 100 comments
13.
On Lisp (paulgraham.com)
125 points by luu on Aug 25, 2013 | 104 comments
14.
Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework (adminjs.com)
119 points by ghempton on Aug 25, 2013 | 26 comments
15.
Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick (coursera.org)
109 points by carlosgg on Aug 25, 2013 | 33 comments
16.
Show HN: I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp (rhoscript.com)
102 points by n_c on Aug 25, 2013 | 40 comments
17.
Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook (greenido.wordpress.com)
94 points by greenido on Aug 25, 2013 | 48 comments
18.
Myth: Select * is Bad (use-the-index-luke.com)
87 points by fatalmind on Aug 25, 2013 | 67 comments
19.
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple (stratechery.com)
87 points by greedo on Aug 25, 2013 | 84 comments
20.
U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel (reuters.com)
78 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 25, 2013 | 84 comments
21.
Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web (storminthecastle.com)
80 points by johnrobinsn on Aug 25, 2013 | 34 comments
22.
The Maginot Line (techcrunch.com)
70 points by devindotcom on Aug 25, 2013 | 34 comments
23.
Use two-factor authentication for Persona with your own domain (stavros.io)
73 points by stavros on Aug 25, 2013 | 18 comments
24.
NSA spied on UN, breaking active agreements (spiegel.de)
70 points by sarnowski on Aug 25, 2013 | 20 comments
25.
Google updates Play policies to require games to use its in-app billing service (thenextweb.com)
64 points by TomAnthony on Aug 25, 2013 | 44 comments
26.
Help, I'm Too Smart For My Job (linkedin.com)
65 points by kenshiro_o on Aug 25, 2013 | 29 comments
27.
SteveB’s Retirement Announcement (hal2020.com)
59 points by protomyth on Aug 25, 2013 | 71 comments
28.
Windows 8.1 quietly gets released to manufacturers (guru8.net)
54 points by mboses on Aug 25, 2013 | 51 comments
29.
Readers offer tales of Silicon Valley's ageism (sfgate.com)
55 points by auctiontheory on Aug 25, 2013 | 71 comments
30.
Google blocks Chromecast app that let you stream your own videos (theverge.com)
53 points by austengary on Aug 25, 2013 | 39 comments

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