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1.Cello: Higher level programming in C (libcello.org)
535 points by mntmn on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
2.Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF (eff.org)
438 points by jasondemeuse on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
3.Enough with the JavaScript already (slideshare.net)
402 points by gulbrandr on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 221 comments [ext]
4. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
4.Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft (pcmag.com)
394 points by domdelimar on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 299 comments [ext]
5.The Case for Abolishing the DHS (businessweek.com)
317 points by danso on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
6.When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up (columbia.edu)
298 points by pessimizer on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 239 comments [ext]
7. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
7.Elon Musk to publish hyperloop design by August (twitter.com/elonmusk)
293 points by tcoppi on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
8.GitHub's on your phone (github.com/blog)
279 points by oBeLx on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
9.Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" (h-online.com)
256 points by parfe on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android (arstechnica.com)
249 points by schrodingersCat on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
11.Useful Unix commands for data science (gregreda.com)
221 points by gjreda on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
12.Set up an email server in two hours (sealedabstract.com)
220 points by steveklabnik on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
13. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
13.Sustaining git-annex development (joeyh.name)
187 points by zrail on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
14.Minion drawn entirely using CSS (cssdeck.com)
176 points by rainboiboi on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
15.The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' (guardian.co.uk)
169 points by uptown on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying (eff.org)
168 points by Libertatea on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
17.Double Secret Surveillance (nytimes.com)
160 points by sethbannon on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
18.Probably not for hackers (kuntz.co)
149 points by dkuntz2 on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
19. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
19.FB event to walk to NSA's Dagger Complex results in a visit by the German police (thelocal.de)
143 points by robfreudenreich on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
20.DMT, the NeXT and the Soul of the Human/Machine (stone.com)
136 points by imfreemind on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
21.Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor (wakati.me)
126 points by welder on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
22. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 2 days ago | hide | 120 comments
22.Namecheap now accepts Bitcoin with zero confirmations (namecheap.com)
123 points by ted0 on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
23.Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon (hubblesite.org)
116 points by japaget on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell (nytimes.com)
117 points by tippytop on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.Choosing an OSS license (choosealicense.com)
117 points by llambda on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
26.Ben Horowitz: Capital market climate change (cnn.com)
114 points by quant on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
27.Apiary.io – REST tools for API documentation and testing (apiary.io)
112 points by shawndumas on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
28. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
28.Golang Diaries II (tbray.org)
96 points by espadrine on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
29.Why I won't speak at women-only events (guardian.co.uk)
94 points by GotAnyMegadeth on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
30.Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements (windows.com)
90 points by barista on July 15, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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