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1. Forced Exposure (groklaw.net)
1391 points by nikai on Aug 20, 2013 | 414 comments
2. Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested (teslamotors.com)
814 points by turing on Aug 20, 2013 | 301 comments
3. Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping (theguardian.com)
706 points by tehmaco on Aug 20, 2013 | 233 comments
4. NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars (ricostacruz.com)
597 points by ianstormtaylor on Aug 20, 2013 | 140 comments
5. [dupe] UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives (pressfreedomfoundation.org)
429 points by spurgu on Aug 20, 2013 | 135 comments
6. Tesla Model X (teslamotors.com)
379 points by m0th87 on Aug 20, 2013 | 244 comments
7. Don't reinvent the scrollbar (bbrks.me)
348 points by bbrks on Aug 20, 2013 | 167 comments
8. Mailpile – taking e-mail back (indiegogo.com)
334 points by tim_hutton on Aug 20, 2013 | 151 comments
9. A Wretched Google Interview Experience (symbo1ics.com)
293 points by reikonomusha on Aug 20, 2013 | 337 comments
10. Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative (freelists.org)
293 points by rumcajz on Aug 20, 2013 | 114 comments
11. Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches (washingtonpost.com)
280 points by eplanit on Aug 20, 2013 | 109 comments
12. Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB? (electronics.stackexchange.com)
264 points by dchester195 on Aug 20, 2013 | 125 comments
13. An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js (modulus.io)
257 points by zwigby on Aug 20, 2013 | 66 comments
14. Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git (github.com/fredriknoren)
243 points by rplnt on Aug 20, 2013 | 65 comments
15. Sovereign – Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own personal cloud (github.com/al3x)
216 points by spullara on Aug 20, 2013 | 60 comments
16. Purecss.io – A set of small, responsive CSS modules by Yahoo (purecss.io)
195 points by isla-de-encanta on Aug 20, 2013 | 44 comments
17. I just want to say "fuck everything", hold up my hands and walk away. (werd.io)
184 points by benwerd on Aug 20, 2013 | 179 comments
18. Coroutines in one page of C (embeddedrelated.com)
180 points by mbrubeck on Aug 20, 2013 | 60 comments
19. [dupe] David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation' (bbc.co.uk)
180 points by RobAley on Aug 20, 2013 | 36 comments
20. CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup (gwu.edu)
165 points by tareqak on Aug 20, 2013 | 142 comments
21. Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings (moz.com)
146 points by giorgiofontana on Aug 20, 2013 | 97 comments
22. Crosswords don’t make you clever (economist.com)
136 points by nitins on Aug 20, 2013 | 73 comments
23. Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1 (techcrunch.com)
132 points by zaveri on Aug 20, 2013 | 41 comments
24. Medium Sucks (codingjohnson.com)
129 points by gringofyx on Aug 20, 2013 | 42 comments
25. John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012) (uw.edu)
123 points by hypr_geek on Aug 20, 2013 | 42 comments
26. EVA 23: Exploring the frontier (esa.int)
120 points by wallflower on Aug 20, 2013 | 9 comments
27. David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation' (bbc.co.uk)
119 points by _airh on Aug 20, 2013 | 49 comments
28. The Great App.net Mistake (wired.com)
120 points by sylvinus on Aug 20, 2013 | 65 comments
29. Wikipedia: Size in volumes (wikipedia.org)
112 points by dpcx on Aug 20, 2013 | 41 comments
30. Amazon Ramps Up $13.9 Billion Warehouse Building Spree (bloomberg.com)
119 points by hkimura on Aug 20, 2013 | 83 comments

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