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1.		Twitter Files For IPO (allthingsd.com)
		447 points by coloneltcb on Sept 12, 2013 \| 223 comments
2.		Dropbox opening my docs? (wncinfosec.com)
		410 points by johns on Sept 12, 2013 \| 125 comments
3.		Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia (nytimes.com)
		383 points by electic on Sept 12, 2013 \| 250 comments
4.		Black Perl (wikipedia.org)
		330 points by diego on Sept 12, 2013 \| 67 comments
5.		Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars (nasa.gov)
		325 points by ComputerGuru on Sept 12, 2013 \| 79 comments
6.		Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app (wit.ai)
		321 points by ar7hur on Sept 12, 2013 \| 95 comments
7.		Shot tower (wikipedia.org)
		269 points by ari_smith on Sept 12, 2013 \| 79 comments
8.		Cocktails for programmers (github.com/the-teacher)
		258 points by bencevans on Sept 12, 2013 \| 169 comments
9.		H2 {position: sticky} [video] (air.mozilla.org)
		242 points by izietto on Sept 12, 2013 \| 88 comments
10.		"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb." (jaquith.org)
		224 points by luigi on Sept 12, 2013 \| 114 comments
11.		Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bits
		222 points by oktypok on Sept 12, 2013 \| 139 comments
12.		How Chris McCandless Died (newyorker.com)
		208 points by dctoedt on Sept 12, 2013 \| 129 comments
13.		Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal (theguardian.com)
		204 points by cake on Sept 12, 2013 \| 118 comments
14.		How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive (github.com/javisoto)
		200 points by doh on Sept 12, 2013 \| 115 comments
15.		Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’ (wired.com)
		182 points by zupancik on Sept 12, 2013 \| 135 comments
16.		Coder for Raspberry Pi (googlecreativelab.github.io)
		164 points by makepanic on Sept 12, 2013 \| 33 comments
17.		Notes on Intel Microcode Updates (inertiawar.com)
		161 points by fejr on Sept 12, 2013 \| 32 comments
18.		This Post Took 3 Years to Write (brawl.in)
		160 points by kenpratt on Sept 12, 2013 \| 61 comments
19.		Phonebloks (phonebloks.com)
		162 points by heldtogether on Sept 12, 2013 \| 68 comments
20.		The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone (alexstechthoughts.com)
		160 points by harrisonweber on Sept 12, 2013 \| 85 comments
21.		Outlook.com now has IMAP (office.com)
		145 points by graublau on Sept 12, 2013 \| 103 comments
22.		Why Netflix should buy AMC (jasonevanish.com)
		144 points by jevanish on Sept 12, 2013 \| 91 comments
23.		Linus on /dev/random: "We actually know what we are doing. You don't." (sophos.com)
		139 points by marcuspovey on Sept 12, 2013 \| 74 comments
24.		Microsoft TerraServer (1998) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		128 points by dictum on Sept 12, 2013 \| 50 comments
25.		Twitter confirms IPO plans via Twitter (twitter.com/twitter)
		126 points by timdorr on Sept 12, 2013 \| 13 comments
26.		A Sinatra-inspired micro web framework for Java (sparkjava.com)
		121 points by _ozde on Sept 12, 2013 \| 93 comments
27.		Audio pioneer Ray Dolby passes away (engadget.com)
		121 points by coloneltcb on Sept 12, 2013 \| 26 comments
28.		Pushed to the limit as a banking intern (bbc.co.uk)
		118 points by danso on Sept 12, 2013 \| 219 comments
29.		Teenagers and the Internet (theguardian.com)
		107 points by hobolobo on Sept 12, 2013 \| 120 comments
30.		Introducing the Qt WebEngine (digia.com)
		106 points by ddb on Sept 12, 2013 \| 36 comments
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