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1. The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden (washingtonpost.com)
427 points by Libertatea on Aug 10, 2013 | 235 comments
2. Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It' (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
386 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 10, 2013 | 185 comments
3. Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python (readthedocs.org)
303 points by sloria on Aug 10, 2013 | 46 comments
4. How I Created the Iconic iPhone Sound (jacklinstudios.com)
300 points by anewcolor on Aug 10, 2013 | 69 comments
5. Text-based terminal screencasts (showterm.io)
293 points by daw___ on Aug 10, 2013 | 51 comments
6. Vim 7.4 is released (vim.org)
245 points by sramsay on Aug 10, 2013 | 124 comments
7. How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine (smithsonianmag.com)
235 points by Libertatea on Aug 10, 2013 | 162 comments
8. Why founders fail: the product CEO paradox (techcrunch.com)
167 points by kunle on Aug 10, 2013 | 58 comments
9. What makes Lua tick? (lua-users.org)
154 points by da02 on Aug 10, 2013 | 108 comments
10. Learn Emacs and Lisp with simple, bite-sized screencasts (emacsbites.com)
142 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2013 | 36 comments
11. Woody Allen: What I've learned (esquire.com)
135 points by npalli on Aug 10, 2013 | 56 comments
12. The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud (washingtonpost.com)
134 points by blumentopf on Aug 10, 2013 | 35 comments
13. How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company (newyorker.com)
133 points by Expeck on Aug 10, 2013 | 44 comments
14. Homes for Hackers gets a visit from the FBI (banterant.com)
137 points by bogrollben on Aug 10, 2013 | 108 comments
15. Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship (torrentfreak.com)
119 points by derpenxyne on Aug 10, 2013 | 41 comments
16. Firebase 404 (firebase.com)
118 points by ca98am79 on Aug 10, 2013 | 26 comments
17. Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years (technologyreview.com)
112 points by codesuela on Aug 10, 2013 | 81 comments
18. "To come up with something truly original, you have to ignore common sense." (vooza.com)
108 points by balsam on Aug 10, 2013 | 25 comments
19. Bootstrap-switch (bootstrap-switch.org)
101 points by nostalgiaz on Aug 10, 2013 | 46 comments
20. The Factoring Cryptopocalypse (daemonology.net)
101 points by cperciva on Aug 10, 2013 | 24 comments
21. Show HN: An open-source media hosting site that's anonymous and fast (mediacru.sh)
95 points by jdiez17 on Aug 10, 2013 | 57 comments
22. Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi (bell-labs.com)
96 points by synchronise on Aug 10, 2013 | 65 comments
23. Getting started with Clojure (aheusingfeld.github.io)
92 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2013 | 48 comments
24. How Bad is DOM Interaction Really? (andyshora.com)
90 points by andyshora on Aug 10, 2013 | 33 comments
25. SSD myths and legends: write endurance (storagesearch.com)
88 points by wslh on Aug 10, 2013 | 76 comments
26. Super Mario Melodies (2011) (losdoggies.com)
84 points by kanamekun on Aug 10, 2013 | 9 comments
27. Why isn't there a Kickstarter for killing patents? (galenward.com)
88 points by EAKoester on Aug 10, 2013 | 66 comments
28. E-mail's Big Privacy Problem: Q&A With Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann (forbes.com/sites/parmyolson)
80 points by 2a0c40 on Aug 10, 2013 | 50 comments
29. The Animals are Also Getting Fat (marginalrevolution.com)
69 points by yummyfajitas on Aug 10, 2013 | 38 comments
30. Why functional programming? Why Haskell? (realworldhaskell.org)
63 points by tosh on Aug 10, 2013 | 83 comments

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