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1.
English has been my pain for 15 years (antirez.com)
433 points by derefr on Sept 2, 2013 | 300 comments
2.
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com)
335 points by danso on Sept 2, 2013 | 105 comments
3.
Progressive Enhancement Is Dead (tomdale.net)
334 points by avolcano on Sept 2, 2013 | 259 comments
4.
Favicon Cheatsheet (github.com/audreyr)
301 points by eliot_sykes on Sept 2, 2013 | 54 comments
5.
Developers are the autoworkers of our generation (baugues.com)
291 points by wslh on Sept 2, 2013 | 205 comments
6.
Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing (righto.com)
238 points by lispython on Sept 2, 2013 | 218 comments
7.
 [dupe] Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice (zenpencils.com)
199 points by linux_devil on Sept 2, 2013 | 52 comments
8.
Frederik Pohl has died (frederikpohl.com)
175 points by ColinWright on Sept 2, 2013 | 52 comments
9.
Nidium – A new browser engine (nidium.com)
156 points by paraboul on Sept 2, 2013 | 111 comments
10.
My Summer at Mozilla (ryanseys.com)
152 points by ryanseys on Sept 2, 2013 | 54 comments
11.
That Time I Made A Website (tiffany-young.com)
151 points by teddynsnoopy on Sept 2, 2013 | 115 comments
12.
Facebook is bad for you: Get a life (economist.com)
142 points by chetanahuja on Sept 2, 2013 | 127 comments
13.
ArkOS for the Raspberry Pi (arkos.io)
129 points by waldohatesyou on Sept 2, 2013 | 46 comments
14.
How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet (slate.com)
130 points by luu on Sept 2, 2013 | 46 comments
15.
Delete any Photo from Facebook by Exploiting Support Dashboard (arulxtronix.blogspot.in)
114 points by costapopescu on Sept 2, 2013 | 31 comments
16.
'Game changer:' Tourniquet for abdominal wounds is already saving lives (stripes.com)
112 points by shill on Sept 2, 2013 | 24 comments
17.
Inventing Favicon.ico (ruthlessray.wordpress.com)
112 points by ray_sun on Sept 2, 2013 | 17 comments
18.
Sparkey – Key/value storage by Spotify (github.com/spotify)
109 points by patricjansson on Sept 2, 2013 | 55 comments
19.
Things I did to improve my English and reduce my accent (goodcharacters.com)
106 points by goodcharacters on Sept 2, 2013 | 77 comments
20.
Japan's maglev train runs test at over 310 mph (with video) (phys.org)
97 points by jonbaer on Sept 2, 2013 | 91 comments
21.
Amish Hackers (kk.org)
98 points by thejteam on Sept 2, 2013 | 56 comments
22.
Interactive map of all scientific papers from the arXiv (paperscape.org)
95 points by robjk on Sept 2, 2013 | 25 comments
23.
API for creating random users in your application (randomuser.me)
95 points by aram on Sept 2, 2013 | 36 comments
24.
Not the autoworkers of our generation (imsky.co)
81 points by imsky on Sept 2, 2013 | 63 comments
25.
Nimrod: The Return of Pascal (steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.co.uk)
86 points by p0nce on Sept 2, 2013 | 17 comments
26.
NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people, will automate sysadmins (privacysos.org)
83 points by _bfhp on Sept 2, 2013 | 56 comments
27.
The NSA's crypto "breakthrough" (economist.com)
78 points by qubitsam on Sept 2, 2013 | 95 comments
28.
Non-English-based programming languages (wikipedia.org)
77 points by steveklabnik on Sept 2, 2013 | 75 comments
29.
Nphysics – 2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine in pure Rust (github.com/sebcrozet)
78 points by dbaupp on Sept 2, 2013 | 21 comments
30.
Updated RailsCasts Status (railscasts.com)
76 points by markprovan on Sept 2, 2013 | 24 comments

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