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1. How to Convince Investors (paulgraham.com)
489 points by johns on Aug 7, 2013 | 113 comments
2. Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues (minyanville.com)
413 points by nickkyit on Aug 7, 2013 | 179 comments
3. EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering (eff.org)
384 points by r0h1n on Aug 7, 2013 | 77 comments
4. Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue (statuspage.io)
357 points by dannyolinsky on Aug 7, 2013 | 106 comments
5. Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (washingtonpost.com)
332 points by Libertatea on Aug 7, 2013 | 246 comments
6. Android AOSP maintainer quits (plus.google.com)
328 points by av500 on Aug 7, 2013 | 227 comments
7. I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas (kickoffboost.com)
318 points by easymode on Aug 7, 2013 | 105 comments
8. Cyberscare: Ex-NSA chief calls transparency groups, hackers next terrorists (salon.com)
294 points by exit on Aug 7, 2013 | 177 comments
9. I cannot afford to go back to engineering school (medium.com/p)
265 points by ingrid on Aug 7, 2013 | 270 comments
10. Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet (schneier.com)
243 points by hatchan on Aug 7, 2013 | 117 comments
11. Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir (adambard.com)
235 points by philippelh on Aug 7, 2013 | 103 comments
12. Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (paulgraham.com)
211 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2013 | 90 comments
13. DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round (techcrunch.com)
208 points by beigeotter on Aug 7, 2013 | 109 comments
14. Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever (thevine.com.au)
196 points by geektips on Aug 7, 2013 | 115 comments
15. Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5 (contextis.co.uk)
195 points by leetreveil on Aug 7, 2013 | 46 comments
16. IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence (reuters.com)
197 points by muzz on Aug 7, 2013 | 83 comments
17. A Tmux Crash Course (2011) (thoughtbot.com)
177 points by shawndumas on Aug 7, 2013 | 84 comments
18. Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native (blog.mozilla.org)
170 points by evilpie on Aug 7, 2013 | 75 comments
19. iPhone logs my complete movement profile (protecus.de)
158 points by ladino on Aug 7, 2013 | 112 comments
20. Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1 (msdn.com)
130 points by novaleaf on Aug 7, 2013 | 109 comments
21. Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system (github.com/seliopou)
119 points by llambda on Aug 7, 2013 | 21 comments
22. Envelopes - Python email for humans (tomekwojcik.github.io)
119 points by RobSpectre on Aug 7, 2013 | 34 comments
23. JS-Git (github.com/creationix)
117 points by dbaupp on Aug 7, 2013 | 22 comments
24. All-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California Coast (nytimes.com)
111 points by Stupendous on Aug 7, 2013 | 49 comments
25. America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism (wsj.com)
104 points by markprovan on Aug 7, 2013 | 34 comments
26. Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication (authy.com)
99 points by cveigt on Aug 7, 2013 | 34 comments
27. Blink tag removed from Firefox (mozilla.org)
101 points by nvr219 on Aug 7, 2013 | 92 comments
28. Reactive.coffee: reactive programming and declarative UIs in CoffeeScript (yz.mit.edu)
98 points by jashkenas on Aug 7, 2013 | 30 comments
29. Profiling Atherton (kentbrew.github.io)
97 points by kentbrew on Aug 7, 2013 | 64 comments
30. Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript (trevoro.net)
96 points by neilk on Aug 7, 2013 | 64 comments

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