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1. Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream” (adityamukerjee.net)
505 points by chimeracoder on Aug 29, 2013 | 226 comments
2. iPhone, meet Haskell (groups.google.com)
373 points by sritchie on Aug 29, 2013 | 48 comments
3. A horrifying startup accelerator story (davidgcohen.com)
330 points by awwstn on Aug 29, 2013 | 132 comments
4. I'm Building a GitHub for Writers (madebyloren.com)
311 points by guynamedloren on Aug 29, 2013 | 143 comments
5. Explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text (explainshell.com)
275 points by duck on Aug 29, 2013 | 82 comments
6. Does Steve Jobs know how to code? (woz.org)
280 points by bane on Aug 29, 2013 | 226 comments
7. Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco (bloomberg.com)
249 points by georgecmu on Aug 29, 2013 | 235 comments
8. Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome (squareup.com)
245 points by JackDanger on Aug 29, 2013 | 141 comments
9. Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo (gnome.org)
226 points by jeena on Aug 29, 2013 | 135 comments
10. The Raising of Chicago (wikipedia.org)
222 points by nacker_hews on Aug 29, 2013 | 73 comments
11. New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking (wired.com)
206 points by jonbaer on Aug 29, 2013 | 116 comments
12. Tor usage doubles in under a week, and no one knows why (arstechnica.com)
166 points by geerlingguy on Aug 29, 2013 | 71 comments
13. No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington (cnn.com)
146 points by Alex3917 on Aug 29, 2013 | 86 comments
14. Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go (tamber.com)
145 points by alexirobbins on Aug 29, 2013 | 41 comments
15. Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (stanford.edu)
147 points by austengary on Aug 29, 2013 | 86 comments
16. U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ (washingtonpost.com)
144 points by shakes on Aug 29, 2013 | 49 comments
17. First look at Clojure.core.typed (logaan.github.io)
135 points by fogus on Aug 29, 2013 | 57 comments
18. Letter from Da Vinci to the Duke of Milan applying for a position (brucesterling.tumblr.com)
130 points by ubuwaits on Aug 29, 2013 | 54 comments
19. Cannot Measure Productivity (martinfowler.com)
127 points by alexfarran on Aug 29, 2013 | 74 comments
20. Spy Kids (foreignpolicy.com)
127 points by jseliger on Aug 29, 2013 | 62 comments
21. Use RF noise from VGA DAC to drive VHF TV (bellard.org)
117 points by luu on Aug 29, 2013 | 20 comments
22. DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit (translate.google.com)
116 points by luastoned on Aug 29, 2013 | 84 comments
23. Understanding the FFT Algorithm (jakevdp.github.io)
114 points by linux_devil on Aug 29, 2013 | 37 comments
24. Creative Link Effects - Subtle and modern effects for links or menu items (tympanus.net)
107 points by albertoperdomo on Aug 29, 2013 | 28 comments
25. The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0 (moz.com)
111 points by Ecio78 on Aug 29, 2013 | 15 comments
26. Why aren’t there any technologists on the NSA review panel? (washingtonpost.com)
116 points by Libertatea on Aug 29, 2013 | 49 comments
27. Adwords’ Keyword Tool replacement story (growthhacker.am)
108 points by lauren_redgrave on Aug 29, 2013 | 34 comments
28. Android’s Hugo Barra Departs Google for China’s Xiaomi (allthingsd.com)
101 points by MekaiGS on Aug 29, 2013 | 90 comments
29. Nearly a fifth of scientists are considering abandoning the U.S. (salon.com)
96 points by mvs on Aug 29, 2013 | 52 comments
30. How “cell tower dumps” caught the High Country Bandits, and why it matters (arstechnica.com)
93 points by shawndumas on Aug 29, 2013 | 80 comments

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