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1. Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney (washingtonpost.com)
448 points by eplanit on July 2, 2013 | 118 comments
2. Python Tools for Visual Studio (hanselman.com)
412 points by numo16 on July 2, 2013 | 130 comments
3. Google Reader is dead (google.com)
388 points by voidfiles on July 2, 2013 | 211 comments
4. Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome (slashdot.org)
323 points by bpierre on July 2, 2013 | 136 comments
5. Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” (nczonline.net)
317 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 | 185 comments
6. Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash (slate.com)
298 points by ctoth on July 2, 2013 | 219 comments
7. Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance (eff.org)
269 points by ndesaulniers on July 2, 2013 | 60 comments
8. Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll (toddmoore.com)
263 points by dave1619 on July 2, 2013 | 60 comments
9. Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts (brainpickings.org)
219 points by pg on July 2, 2013 | 82 comments
10. Breaking a Toy Hash Function (twistedoakstudios.com)
213 points by pizza on July 2, 2013 | 20 comments
11. Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean (remcobron.com)
212 points by remcobron on July 2, 2013 | 113 comments
12. Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later (basho.com)
188 points by kermatt on July 2, 2013 | 47 comments
13. Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source) (streak.com)
170 points by alooPotato on July 2, 2013 | 98 comments
14. Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case (latimes.com)
155 points by scottshea on July 2, 2013 | 71 comments
15. The 4 AM Army (time.com)
147 points by w1ntermute on July 2, 2013 | 143 comments
16. Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS (danielwellman.com)
139 points by pelf on July 2, 2013 | 18 comments
17. Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions (vudlab.com)
139 points by lewis500 on July 2, 2013 | 37 comments
18. You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (wired.com)
138 points by Libertatea on July 2, 2013 | 144 comments
19. Pirated Apps in the App Store (lipsky.me)
134 points by jonlipsky on July 2, 2013 | 44 comments
20. Girl buys water, spends night in jail (yahoo.com)
137 points by commanderj on July 2, 2013 | 145 comments
21. Google flights (google.com)
134 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 | 65 comments
22. Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch (spaceflight101.com)
132 points by antr on July 2, 2013 | 122 comments
23. Frameworks Round 6 (techempower.com)
125 points by amarsahinovic on July 2, 2013 | 132 comments
24. State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes' (washingtonexaminer.com)
125 points by stfu on July 2, 2013 | 35 comments
25. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality just got several fascinating updates (hpmor.com)
125 points by benhamner on July 2, 2013 | 99 comments
26. How We Hit $912 Million in Sales (inc.com)
122 points by gavreh on July 2, 2013 | 55 comments
27. The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses (smiirl.com)
117 points by Gauhier on July 2, 2013 | 91 comments
28. The Underhanded C contest (xcott.com)
116 points by gnosis on July 2, 2013 | 11 comments
29. Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised (ubi.com)
120 points by bobwaycott on July 2, 2013 | 100 comments
30. Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist (scribd.com)
116 points by dustcoin on July 2, 2013 | 30 comments

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