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1. Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud (code.google.com)
464 points by JanLaussmann on July 17, 2013 | 162 comments
2. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies? (flavorwire.com)
362 points by nreece on July 17, 2013 | 147 comments
3. The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed (theatlanticwire.com)
358 points by j_baker on July 17, 2013 | 134 comments
4. Flynn - Open Source PaaS powered by Docker (flynn.io)
339 points by danielsiders on July 17, 2013 | 153 comments
5. Stunned by Go (how-bazaar.blogspot.co.nz)
320 points by squidsoup on July 17, 2013 | 108 comments
6. Poll: How old are you?
292 points by withoutfriction on July 17, 2013 | 227 comments
7. Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking (aclu.org)
279 points by stfu on July 17, 2013 | 95 comments
8. Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago (mentalfloss.com)
260 points by ohjeez on July 17, 2013 | 92 comments
9. How things get done (samaltman.com)
222 points by olivercameron on July 17, 2013 | 26 comments
10. All three major Russian carriers dump iPhone (rethink-wireless.com)
207 points by yread on July 17, 2013 | 128 comments
11. 100% time (cemerick.com)
191 points by lemming on July 17, 2013 | 35 comments
12. Sheldon Brown's Articles (sheldonbrown.com)
180 points by subsystem on July 17, 2013 | 45 comments
13. Who Says C is Simple? (cs.berkeley.edu)
175 points by ColinWright on July 17, 2013 | 75 comments
14. Show HN: I'm a single founder. Please review my bootstrapped startup (distelli.com)
158 points by arrsingh on July 17, 2013 | 103 comments
15. Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a fake iPhone charger (righto.com)
155 points by martinml on July 17, 2013 | 36 comments
16. How Heroku Works (heroku.com)
156 points by swampthing on July 17, 2013 | 36 comments
17. The Real Value of Stock Options (benjyboxer.com)
151 points by msoad on July 17, 2013 | 62 comments
18. Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore (backwardcompatible.net)
145 points by babuskov on July 17, 2013 | 154 comments
19. Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register (bothsidesofthetable.com)
146 points by muzz on July 17, 2013 | 73 comments
20. The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator (scruss.com)
136 points by DanBC on July 17, 2013 | 68 comments
21. Bjork Brings Biophilia to Android With a Little Help From Apportable (YC W11) (wsj.com)
129 points by collinjackson on July 17, 2013 | 50 comments
22. Global Rich List (globalrichlist.com)
124 points by macalicious on July 17, 2013 | 52 comments
23. Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs (9elements.com)
118 points by molily on July 17, 2013 | 42 comments
24. C as an intermediate language (2012) (yosefk.com)
105 points by ColinWright on July 17, 2013 | 30 comments
25. Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization (kalzumeus.com)
101 points by Cass on July 17, 2013 | 33 comments
26. Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday (npr.org)
98 points by Libertatea on July 17, 2013 | 74 comments
27. ‘Sorry is not enough’: Bolivia demands EU find culprits behind aerial hijack (rt.com)
97 points by areski on July 17, 2013 | 19 comments
28. The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding (helpscout.net)
96 points by Ciotti on July 17, 2013 | 21 comments
29. New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow (ischool.berkeley.edu)
96 points by davelester on July 17, 2013 | 50 comments
30. A personal statistics dashboard and API (chocol.it)
82 points by hopkinschris on July 17, 2013 | 54 comments

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