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1. English has been my pain for 15 years (antirez.com)
433 points by derefr on Sept 2, 2013 | 300 comments
2. Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com)
335 points by danso on Sept 2, 2013 | 105 comments
3. Progressive Enhancement Is Dead (tomdale.net)
334 points by avolcano on Sept 2, 2013 | 259 comments
4. Favicon Cheatsheet (github.com/audreyr)
301 points by eliot_sykes on Sept 2, 2013 | 54 comments
5. Developers are the autoworkers of our generation (baugues.com)
291 points by wslh on Sept 2, 2013 | 205 comments
6. Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing (righto.com)
238 points by lispython on Sept 2, 2013 | 218 comments
7. [dupe] Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice (zenpencils.com)
199 points by linux_devil on Sept 2, 2013 | 52 comments
8. Frederik Pohl has died (frederikpohl.com)
175 points by ColinWright on Sept 2, 2013 | 52 comments
9. Nidium – A new browser engine (nidium.com)
156 points by paraboul on Sept 2, 2013 | 111 comments
10. My Summer at Mozilla (ryanseys.com)
152 points by ryanseys on Sept 2, 2013 | 54 comments
11. That Time I Made A Website (tiffany-young.com)
151 points by teddynsnoopy on Sept 2, 2013 | 115 comments
12. Facebook is bad for you: Get a life (economist.com)
142 points by chetanahuja on Sept 2, 2013 | 127 comments
13. ArkOS for the Raspberry Pi (arkos.io)
129 points by waldohatesyou on Sept 2, 2013 | 46 comments
14. How Google’s Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet (slate.com)
130 points by luu on Sept 2, 2013 | 46 comments
15. Delete any Photo from Facebook by Exploiting Support Dashboard (arulxtronix.blogspot.in)
114 points by costapopescu on Sept 2, 2013 | 31 comments
16. 'Game changer:' Tourniquet for abdominal wounds is already saving lives (stripes.com)
112 points by shill on Sept 2, 2013 | 24 comments
17. Inventing Favicon.ico (ruthlessray.wordpress.com)
112 points by ray_sun on Sept 2, 2013 | 17 comments
18. Sparkey – Key/value storage by Spotify (github.com/spotify)
109 points by patricjansson on Sept 2, 2013 | 55 comments
19. Things I did to improve my English and reduce my accent (goodcharacters.com)
106 points by goodcharacters on Sept 2, 2013 | 77 comments
20. Japan's maglev train runs test at over 310 mph (with video) (phys.org)
97 points by jonbaer on Sept 2, 2013 | 91 comments
21. Amish Hackers (kk.org)
98 points by thejteam on Sept 2, 2013 | 56 comments
22. Interactive map of all scientific papers from the arXiv (paperscape.org)
95 points by robjk on Sept 2, 2013 | 25 comments
23. API for creating random users in your application (randomuser.me)
95 points by aram on Sept 2, 2013 | 36 comments
24. Not the autoworkers of our generation (imsky.co)
81 points by imsky on Sept 2, 2013 | 63 comments
25. Nimrod: The Return of Pascal (steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.co.uk)
86 points by p0nce on Sept 2, 2013 | 17 comments
26. NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people, will automate sysadmins (privacysos.org)
83 points by detcader on Sept 2, 2013 | 56 comments
27. The NSA's crypto "breakthrough" (economist.com)
78 points by qubitsam on Sept 2, 2013 | 95 comments
28. Non-English-based programming languages (wikipedia.org)
77 points by steveklabnik on Sept 2, 2013 | 75 comments
29. Nphysics – 2 and 3-dimensional rigid body physics engine in pure Rust (github.com/sebcrozet)
78 points by dbaupp on Sept 2, 2013 | 21 comments
30. Updated RailsCasts Status (railscasts.com)
76 points by markprovan on Sept 2, 2013 | 24 comments

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