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1.How not to check the validity of an email address (dellsystem.me)
437 points by limelight on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 235 comments [ext]
2.School is a prison and damaging our kids (salon.com)
391 points by gz5 on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 380 comments [ext]
3.Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts [ext]
344 points by calvin on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 168 comments [ext]
4. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
4. [dupe] AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps (thinkster.io)
326 points by mfrisbie on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
5. [dupe] KitKat's new website (kitkat.com)
300 points by dionyziz on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
6.Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars (yahoo.com)
268 points by dsr12 on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 205 comments [ext]
7. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
7.The New AWS Command-Line Interface (aws.typepad.com)
265 points by jeffbarr on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
8.N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section (rapgenius.com)
250 points by lil_tee on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
9.Learn X in Y minutes where X = Go (learnxinyminutes.com)
199 points by realrocker on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.How The Art of Computer Programming was ruined for me (anuragramdasan.com)
194 points by anuragramdasan on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
11.Yahoo showed us 30 days of logos. Here’s the one consumers liked best (survata.com)
193 points by awenger on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
12.Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) (joelonsoftware.com)
174 points by joseflavio on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians (texpaste.herokuapp.com)
136 points by huy on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
14.HDMI 2.0 officially announced (engadget.com)
135 points by nreece on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
15."Forensics for Prosecutors" mentions backdoor in TrueCrypt (page 15) [pdf] (cryptome.org)
134 points by jhickner on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
16. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
16.From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (2008) (theguardian.com)
130 points by jackschultz on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
17.We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online (slate.com)
120 points by mashmac2 on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
18.Why Cassandra Doesn't Need Vector Clocks (datastax.com)
118 points by nickmbailey on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
19. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
19.Didn't Get Enough Sleep? You Might As Well Be Drunk (forbes.com/sites/kellyclay)
110 points by bparsons on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
20.Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis (aws.typepad.com)
113 points by jeffbarr on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
21.How to spot a fake Canon flash (petapixel.com)
105 points by unwind on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.OpenStack adds new hypervisor to support Docker containers (openstack.org)
114 points by julien421 on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
23.Sleep 'boosts brain cell numbers' (bbc.co.uk)
100 points by akandiah on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
24.Oddities in x86 Assembly (code.google.com)
96 points by tristanj on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.Cap'n Proto v0.3: Python support, better tools, other improvements (kentonv.github.io)
101 points by kentonv on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
26.London to Brighton train ride, 1953-2013 [video] (flowingdata.com)
92 points by erkose on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
27.Getting drunk in North Korea (theatlantic.com)
91 points by awwstn on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
28. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
28.iOS7 is not about flat (medium.com/p)
90 points by davidbrai on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
29.NFL Players Union Partners with Uber To Prevent Players Driving Drunk (nytimes.com)
85 points by awwstn on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
30.A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011) (worrydream.com)
83 points by jamesjyu on Sept 4, 2013 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
31. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments

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