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1. "Nothing like this will be built again" (antipope.org)
452 points by ajdecon on July 8, 2013 | 95 comments
2. Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents (worrydream.com)
435 points by bpierre on July 8, 2013 | 70 comments
3. Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (wired.com)
427 points by HoochTHX on July 8, 2013 | 47 comments
4. Alternative Internet (github.com/rossjones)
357 points by selvan on July 8, 2013 | 92 comments
5. San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (tomdale.net)
351 points by jcdavis on July 8, 2013 | 440 comments
6. The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users (highscalability.com)
316 points by aespinoza on July 8, 2013 | 162 comments
7. Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
265 points by GuiA on July 8, 2013 | 64 comments
8. Monocle (alexmaccaw.com)
264 points by maccman on July 8, 2013 | 181 comments
9. Snowden releases information about Australian Intelligence gathering programs (theage.com.au)
245 points by SomeoneWeird on July 8, 2013 | 98 comments
10. Kenya Shilling Symbol (arkafrica.com)
211 points by nknganda on July 8, 2013 | 60 comments
11. Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' [video] (guardian.co.uk)
211 points by hermanywong on July 8, 2013 | 38 comments
12. Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
182 points by ghayes on July 8, 2013 | 54 comments
13. YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim (valloric.github.io)
173 points by albertzeyer on July 8, 2013 | 74 comments
14. First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future (arstechnica.com)
162 points by ulysses on July 8, 2013 | 136 comments
15. Secret Court's Redefinition of 'Relevant' Empowered Vast NSA Data-Gathering (wsj.com)
151 points by Lightning on July 8, 2013 | 70 comments
16. How upgrading to Google Apps for Business killed my company's email for 6 hours (floriancornu.blogspot.com)
143 points by ValentineC on July 8, 2013 | 111 comments
17. Switzerland: Say no to a surveillance state (buepf.ch)
137 points by kimlelly on July 8, 2013 | 15 comments
18. Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure (guardian.co.uk)
137 points by Ovid on July 8, 2013 | 93 comments
19. Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing (gigaom.com)
139 points by ferdo on July 8, 2013 | 94 comments
20. Privacy International files legal challenge against UK government (privacyinternational.org)
132 points by justincormack on July 8, 2013 | 29 comments
21. Docker Desktop: Your Desktop over ssh inside of a Docker container (docker.io)
133 points by rogaha on July 8, 2013 | 80 comments
22. After PRISM reports, Swiss data bank sees boost (washingtonpost.com)
133 points by iProject on July 8, 2013 | 39 comments
23. Privacy Group to Ask Supreme Court to Stop N.S.A.’s Phone Spying Program (nytimes.com)
130 points by salimmadjd on July 8, 2013 | 19 comments
24. Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air [pdf] (washington.edu)
120 points by interconnector on July 8, 2013 | 42 comments
25. Private companies protect US access to cables’ data for surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
126 points by hanifvirani on July 8, 2013 | 15 comments
26. Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm (foreignpolicy.com)
125 points by shawndumas on July 8, 2013 | 63 comments
27. How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities (nytimes.com)
120 points by sethbannon on July 8, 2013 | 190 comments
28. What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go (repustate.com)
120 points by Nogwater on July 8, 2013 | 111 comments
29. EJDB: Embedded JSON Database for C/C++, .Net, NodeJS, Python, Lua, Java, Ruby (ejdb.org)
119 points by andrewstuart on July 8, 2013 | 55 comments
30. Miyamoto Admits Nintendo Underestimated The Switch To HD (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
114 points by scholia on July 8, 2013 | 117 comments

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