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1. Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. (bloomberg.com)
391 points by danboarder on July 29, 2013 | 265 comments
2. Groupcache: an alternative to memcached, written in Go (github.com/golang)
341 points by sferik on July 29, 2013 | 97 comments
3. Tox: secure messaging for everyone (tox.im)
340 points by NotUncivil on July 29, 2013 | 199 comments
4. Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make and break online video (arstechnica.com)
310 points by abraham on July 29, 2013 | 110 comments
5. Identical Droplets in the DigitalOcean: Regenerate your Ubuntu SSH Host Keys now (missingm.co)
285 points by jlund on July 29, 2013 | 106 comments
6. US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent (pcworld.com)
281 points by Lightning on July 29, 2013 | 104 comments
7. Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance (nytimes.com)
263 points by tippytop on July 29, 2013 | 30 comments
8. Bitcoin ruled illegal in Thailand (bitcoin.co.th)
236 points by rb2k_ on July 29, 2013 | 102 comments
9. GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt (economist.com)
218 points by douglasfshearer on July 29, 2013 | 120 comments
10. Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster (newstatesman.com)
206 points by tomsaffell on July 29, 2013 | 131 comments
11. Ask HN: HN Political News Overload?
206 points by EzGraphs on July 29, 2013 | 149 comments
12. [dupe] Bootstrap 3 (getbootstrap.com)
194 points by bauerpl on July 29, 2013 | 85 comments
13. Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions (valerieaurora.org)
153 points by tswicegood on July 29, 2013 | 52 comments
14. Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week (collisiondetection.net)
155 points by wglb on July 29, 2013 | 14 comments
15. Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video] (bbc.co.uk)
151 points by schrofer on July 29, 2013 | 34 comments
16. Flynn 101% Funded (flynn.io)
158 points by danielsiders on July 29, 2013 | 25 comments
17. Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht (chron.com)
151 points by antitrust on July 29, 2013 | 97 comments
18. Desperate times call for desperate measures (theoldreader.com)
144 points by jack-r-abbit on July 29, 2013 | 38 comments
19. A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows (minardi.org)
144 points by doctoboggan on July 29, 2013 | 25 comments
20. Phil Fish and the Internet’s war against creatives (penny-arcade.com)
130 points by cobrausn on July 29, 2013 | 129 comments
21. Ink – Interface Kit (sapo.pt)
127 points by rcarmo on July 29, 2013 | 69 comments
22. Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (scottaaronson.com)
125 points by gnosis on July 29, 2013 | 55 comments
23. Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs (wgbhnews.org)
120 points by duggieawesome on July 29, 2013 | 121 comments
24. GameBoy Programming Manual (scribd.com)
120 points by robert-boehnke on July 29, 2013 | 53 comments
25. Microsoft Accuses Microsoft of Copyright Infringement (pcworld.com)
120 points by samspenc on July 29, 2013 | 34 comments
26. The Slingatron: Building a Railroad to Space (kickstarter.com)
114 points by gurvinder on July 29, 2013 | 76 comments
27. Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty (ssrn.com)
112 points by breck on July 29, 2013 | 62 comments
28. "Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report (zdnet.com)
112 points by zarify on July 29, 2013 | 134 comments
29. OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t (ieee.org)
110 points by florent_k on July 29, 2013 | 62 comments
30. Down with lifehacking (slate.com)
106 points by andreipop on July 29, 2013 | 55 comments

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