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1. Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks (linuxlock.blogspot.sg)
564 points by reactor on July 20, 2013 | 138 comments
2. “What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company (readability.com)
326 points by wikiburner on July 20, 2013 | 94 comments
3. The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements (theatlantic.com)
262 points by swombat on July 20, 2013 | 179 comments
4. iPhone 6: An edgy concept (behance.net)
250 points by jason_shah on July 20, 2013 | 133 comments
5. CSS Zen Garden relaunched (csszengarden.com)
218 points by jmduke on July 20, 2013 | 47 comments
6. Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone (gist.github.com)
175 points by Tho85 on July 20, 2013 | 63 comments
7. Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’ (nytimes.com)
166 points by pg on July 20, 2013 | 120 comments
8. Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think? (regex101.com)
161 points by Lindrian on July 20, 2013 | 77 comments
9. Gmail now features ads that look like emails (marketingland.com)
160 points by owenwil on July 20, 2013 | 62 comments
10. When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? (smithsonianmag.com)
156 points by pguzmang on July 20, 2013 | 77 comments
11. Thanks For The Identity Theft, Yahoo (b0ing.me)
154 points by b0ing on July 20, 2013 | 59 comments
12. How Forensic Linguistics Identified J.K. Rowling (nationalgeographic.com)
135 points by ahmadss on July 20, 2013 | 69 comments
13. The Locust Economy (ribbonfarm.com)
128 points by nashequilibrium on July 20, 2013 | 49 comments
14. DNS: The Good Parts (petekeen.net)
123 points by zrail on July 20, 2013 | 51 comments
15. Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free (mathoverflow.net)
114 points by llambda on July 20, 2013 | 16 comments
16. [dupe] Peers call for a pardon for Alan Turing [video] (bbc.co.uk)
112 points by ra on July 20, 2013 | 33 comments
17. Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website (yalelawtech.org)
99 points by Flopsy on July 20, 2013 | 85 comments
18. Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop (cp-africa.com)
94 points by jkuria on July 20, 2013 | 31 comments
19. Why Canada Has No Big Tech Companies (contentdj.com)
94 points by liquimoon on July 20, 2013 | 167 comments
20. Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (vimeo.com)
94 points by pjmorris on July 20, 2013 | 14 comments
21. Do You Google Yourself? Are You Hiring? (priceonomics.com)
91 points by beniaminmincu on July 20, 2013 | 27 comments
22. NetBeans 7.4 – New and Noteworthy (netbeans.org)
78 points by rohu1990 on July 20, 2013 | 43 comments
23. A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold (nytimes.com)
72 points by smd4 on July 20, 2013 | 36 comments
24. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff (nytimes.com)
72 points by jparishy on July 20, 2013 | 62 comments
25. Beyond grep: ack, a code search tool for programmers (beyondgrep.com)
70 points by andrelaszlo on July 20, 2013 | 30 comments
26. MPAA Demands Source Code of isoHunt’s “Failing” Piracy Filter (torrentfreak.com)
70 points by Lightning on July 20, 2013 | 37 comments
27. Plug anti-PRISM solution raises half a million dollars in 9 days on Kickstarter (meetplug.com)
69 points by gawenr on July 20, 2013 | 52 comments
28. NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials reveal (washingtonpost.com)
78 points by Libertatea on July 20, 2013 | 3 comments
29. Malcolm Gladwell's Reponse to the Culturalism Post (askakorean.blogspot.com)
65 points by curtis on July 20, 2013 | 68 comments
30. Ubuntu forums hacked (ubuntuforums.org)
65 points by reinhardt on July 20, 2013 | 56 comments

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