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1. 0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML (acko.net)
373 points by co_pl_te on Aug 24, 2013 | 94 comments
2. We're only being dishonest to get your attention. Join us!
350 points by jpadvo on Aug 24, 2013 | 68 comments
3. Linux 3.9 introduced a new way of writing socket servers (vhex.net)
289 points by aartur on Aug 24, 2013 | 126 comments
4. Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? (thestringer.com.au)
285 points by r0h1n on Aug 24, 2013 | 78 comments
5. How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction (medium.com/design-startups)
264 points by pytrin on Aug 24, 2013 | 64 comments
6. Dear Prime Minister Cameron (aftenposten.no)
205 points by oyvind on Aug 24, 2013 | 20 comments
7. Vasili Arkhipov (wikipedia.org)
200 points by jbevain on Aug 24, 2013 | 53 comments
8. Loneliness Is Deadly (slate.com)
177 points by mmq on Aug 24, 2013 | 83 comments
9. Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee (w3.org)
178 points by jchrisa on Aug 24, 2013 | 130 comments
10. Operating System Development Series (2008) (brokenthorn.com)
166 points by networked on Aug 24, 2013 | 16 comments
11. Someone's stealing our identity on Apple's App Store (flipagr.am)
158 points by briandilley on Aug 24, 2013 | 63 comments
12. Wildfire threatening the power grid that supplies San Francisco (npr.org)
141 points by mpchlets on Aug 24, 2013 | 61 comments
13. Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography (businessinsider.com)
134 points by neya on Aug 24, 2013 | 41 comments
14. Servo – A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla (github.com/mozilla)
124 points by snird on Aug 24, 2013 | 39 comments
15. Giant Robotic Mining Trucks in the Australian Desert (medium.com/war-is-boring)
119 points by friism on Aug 24, 2013 | 88 comments
16. You have to beat the man to be the man (charliecurran.com)
116 points by charliecurran on Aug 24, 2013 | 86 comments
17. Prototype Hardware from Lockheed Martin Surveillance Project (ebay.com)
113 points by jsonne on Aug 24, 2013 | 23 comments
18. The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business (techcrunch.com)
113 points by ssclafani on Aug 24, 2013 | 36 comments
19. Rust on the Arduino Due (github.com/jensnockert)
103 points by kaeso on Aug 24, 2013 | 27 comments
20. Make No Promises (swannodette.github.io)
98 points by _halgari on Aug 24, 2013 | 36 comments
21. Computer can read letters directly from the brain (ru.nl)
97 points by turing on Aug 24, 2013 | 32 comments
22. Police Crack Down on Burning Man (intellihub.com)
95 points by jkbyc on Aug 24, 2013 | 24 comments
23. ModMyPi: how one student turned over £867,000 selling Raspberry Pi cases (wired.co.uk)
94 points by crocowhile on Aug 24, 2013 | 22 comments
24. Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua (terralang.org)
93 points by jamii on Aug 24, 2013 | 14 comments
25. The $80 web development workstation (skofo.github.io)
89 points by Skoofoo on Aug 24, 2013 | 165 comments
26. HTML5 Piano (mrcoles.com)
89 points by danso on Aug 24, 2013 | 63 comments
27. OpenGL 101: Matrices – projection, view, model (solarianprogrammer.com)
87 points by AlexeyBrin on Aug 24, 2013 | 17 comments
28. NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests (wsj.com)
82 points by danso on Aug 24, 2013 | 21 comments
29. In many ways PHP is just now starting to come into its own (gist.github.com)
81 points by guillaumepotier on Aug 24, 2013 | 132 comments
30. Tesla California sales beat Chrysler, Volvo, Cadillac, other big names (arstechnica.com)
79 points by shawndumas on Aug 24, 2013 | 76 comments

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