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1.		Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream” (adityamukerjee.net)
		505 points by chimeracoder on Aug 29, 2013 \| 226 comments
2.		iPhone, meet Haskell (groups.google.com)
		373 points by sritchie on Aug 29, 2013 \| 48 comments
3.		A horrifying startup accelerator story (davidgcohen.com)
		330 points by awwstn on Aug 29, 2013 \| 132 comments
4.		I'm Building a GitHub for Writers (madebyloren.com)
		311 points by guynamedloren on Aug 29, 2013 \| 143 comments
5.		Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text (explainshell.com)
		275 points by duck on Aug 29, 2013 \| 82 comments
6.		Does Steve Jobs know how to code? (woz.org)
		280 points by bane on Aug 29, 2013 \| 226 comments
7.		Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco (bloomberg.com)
		249 points by georgecmu on Aug 29, 2013 \| 235 comments
8.		Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome (squareup.com)
		245 points by JackDanger on Aug 29, 2013 \| 141 comments
9.		Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo (gnome.org)
		226 points by jeena on Aug 29, 2013 \| 135 comments
10.		The Raising of Chicago (wikipedia.org)
		222 points by nacker_hews on Aug 29, 2013 \| 73 comments
11.		New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking (wired.com)
		206 points by jonbaer on Aug 29, 2013 \| 116 comments
12.		Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why (arstechnica.com)
		166 points by geerlingguy on Aug 29, 2013 \| 71 comments
13.		No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington (cnn.com)
		146 points by Alex3917 on Aug 29, 2013 \| 86 comments
14.		Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go (tamber.com)
		145 points by alexirobbins on Aug 29, 2013 \| 41 comments
15.		Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (stanford.edu)
		147 points by austengary on Aug 29, 2013 \| 86 comments
16.		U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ (washingtonpost.com)
		144 points by shakes on Aug 29, 2013 \| 49 comments
17.		First look at Clojure.core.typed (logaan.github.io)
		135 points by fogus on Aug 29, 2013 \| 57 comments
18.		Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position (brucesterling.tumblr.com)
		130 points by ubuwaits on Aug 29, 2013 \| 54 comments
19.		Cannot Measure Productivity (martinfowler.com)
		127 points by alexfarran on Aug 29, 2013 \| 74 comments
20.		Spy Kids (foreignpolicy.com)
		127 points by jseliger on Aug 29, 2013 \| 62 comments
21.		Use RF noise from VGA DAC to drive VHF TV (bellard.org)
		117 points by luu on Aug 29, 2013 \| 20 comments
22.		DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit (translate.google.com)
		116 points by luastoned on Aug 29, 2013 \| 84 comments
23.		Understanding the FFT Algorithm (jakevdp.github.io)
		114 points by linux_devil on Aug 29, 2013 \| 37 comments
24.		Creative Link Effects - Subtle and modern effects for links or menu items (tympanus.net)
		107 points by albertoperdomo on Aug 29, 2013 \| 28 comments
25.		The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0 (moz.com)
		111 points by Ecio78 on Aug 29, 2013 \| 15 comments
26.		Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel? (washingtonpost.com)
		116 points by Libertatea on Aug 29, 2013 \| 49 comments
27.		Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story (growthhacker.am)
		108 points by lauren_redgrave on Aug 29, 2013 \| 34 comments
28.		Android’s Hugo Barra Departs Google for China’s Xiaomi (allthingsd.com)
		101 points by MekaiGS on Aug 29, 2013 \| 90 comments
29.		Nearly a fifth of scientists are considering abandoning the U.S. (salon.com)
		96 points by mvs on Aug 29, 2013 \| 52 comments
30.		How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits, and why it matters (arstechnica.com)
		93 points by shawndumas on Aug 29, 2013 \| 80 comments
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