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1.
Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier (beelinereader.com)
739 points by gnicholas on Sept 5, 2013 | 262 comments
2.
How a Car Engine Works (jacoboneal.com)
571 points by dfield on Sept 5, 2013 | 170 comments
3.
PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds (mailpile.is)
528 points by capgre on Sept 5, 2013 | 351 comments
4.
 The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back (theguardian.com)
482 points by trauco on Sept 5, 2013 | 105 comments
5.
Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned (davegooden.com)
339 points by cabinguy on Sept 5, 2013 | 70 comments
6.
NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit (eff.org)
338 points by wlj on Sept 5, 2013 | 78 comments
7.
How to remain secure against NSA surveillance (theguardian.com)
285 points by ISL on Sept 5, 2013 | 156 comments
8.
A new breed of Chrome Apps (chrome.blogspot.com)
285 points by twapi on Sept 5, 2013 | 157 comments
9.
Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection (abc.net.au)
258 points by uptown on Sept 5, 2013 | 114 comments
10.
How Advanced Is the NSA's Cryptanalysis, and Can We Resist It? (schneier.com)
209 points by moonboots on Sept 5, 2013 | 61 comments
11.
 [dupe] US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet (theguardian.com)
205 points by weu on Sept 5, 2013 | 33 comments
12.
Hacker News: Best (news.ycombinator.com)
204 points by zainny on Sept 5, 2013 | 48 comments
13.
Geeking Out on the Logo (marissamayr.tumblr.com)
190 points by mikkelewis on Sept 5, 2013 | 158 comments
14.
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) (wired.com)
187 points by aprescott on Sept 5, 2013 | 32 comments
15.
Deeply Moving: Deep Learning for Sentiment Analysis (stanford.edu)
173 points by ninjin on Sept 5, 2013 | 45 comments
16.
The Steely, Headless King of Texas Hold ’Em (nytimes.com)
152 points by spot on Sept 5, 2013 | 96 comments
17.
 [dupe] PayPal releases Mailpile’s $45,000 (updated) (arstechnica.com)
159 points by _pius on Sept 5, 2013 | 42 comments
18.
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (invergo.net)
149 points by dpeck on Sept 5, 2013 | 69 comments
19.
The code culture problem (fraustollc.com)
148 points by frausto on Sept 5, 2013 | 155 comments
20.
Australian opposition vows to implement Internet filter by default (zdnet.com)
148 points by aaron695 on Sept 5, 2013 | 162 comments
21.
Speed Up Git Pull (interrobeng.com)
146 points by nahname on Sept 5, 2013 | 48 comments
22.
Homegrown DevOps Tools at Stack Exchange (serverfault.com)
144 points by KyleBrandt on Sept 5, 2013 | 66 comments
23.
Docker can now run within Docker (docker.io)
150 points by jpetazzo on Sept 5, 2013 | 45 comments
24.
Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation (getprismatic.com)
130 points by sorenmacbeth on Sept 5, 2013 | 56 comments
25.
Effective Scala (twitter.github.io)
129 points by auggierose on Sept 5, 2013 | 71 comments
26.
It ain't about the callbacks, it's about the flow control (popcount.org)
128 points by majke on Sept 5, 2013 | 41 comments
27.
Data Broker Lets You See Their Dossier About You Starting Today (forbes.com/sites/adamtanner)
125 points by smcnally on Sept 5, 2013 | 75 comments
28.
How to handle millions of new Tor clients (torproject.org)
124 points by conductor on Sept 5, 2013 | 29 comments
29.
US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing hacking prosecution (theguardian.com)
118 points by eulerphi on Sept 5, 2013 | 22 comments
30.
A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords (schneier.com)
112 points by wulfgarpro on Sept 5, 2013 | 73 comments

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