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1. What happens when you use a standing desk for two years (arshadchowdhury.com)
467 points by arshadgc on Aug 27, 2013 | 285 comments
2. Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range (kickstarter.com)
363 points by trafnar on Aug 27, 2013 | 139 comments
3. The CODE Keyboard (codinghorror.com)
356 points by basil on Aug 27, 2013 | 326 comments
4. Go After 2 Years in Production (iron.io)
323 points by treeder on Aug 27, 2013 | 173 comments
5. What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (lifehacker.com)
246 points by zerny on Aug 27, 2013 | 93 comments
6. Logstash joins Elasticsearch (elasticsearch.com)
242 points by j4mie on Aug 27, 2013 | 57 comments
7. Principles of Reactive Programming (coursera.org)
215 points by steveb on Aug 27, 2013 | 47 comments
8. Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development (hacks.mozilla.org)
207 points by rnyman on Aug 27, 2013 | 86 comments
9. Stripe launches German beta (stripe.com)
193 points by TomAnthony on Aug 27, 2013 | 161 comments
10. Did The TSA and JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? No (boardingarea.com)
193 points by mlm on Aug 27, 2013 | 222 comments
11. Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby (puma.io)
164 points by bretpiatt on Aug 27, 2013 | 83 comments
12. Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN (tinfoilsecurity.com)
168 points by bensedat on Aug 27, 2013 | 123 comments
13. Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility (thenextweb.com)
163 points by jpadilla_ on Aug 27, 2013 | 99 comments
14. Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts (herculesandtheumpire.com)
157 points by danso on Aug 27, 2013 | 111 comments
15. Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2 (groups.google.com)
154 points by bpierre on Aug 27, 2013 | 16 comments
16. Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets (theguardian.com)
157 points by pwg on Aug 27, 2013 | 141 comments
17. Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means (techrepublic.com)
147 points by heyitsnick on Aug 27, 2013 | 45 comments
18. Detaining David Miranda (schneier.com)
138 points by dllthomas on Aug 27, 2013 | 42 comments
19. Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase (coinbase.com)
140 points by FredEE on Aug 27, 2013 | 49 comments
20. What is algebra? (profkeithdevlin.org)
135 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2013 | 85 comments
21. F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales (research.google.com)
131 points by alec on Aug 27, 2013 | 23 comments
22. A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js (intentionjs.com)
134 points by joe8756438 on Aug 27, 2013 | 53 comments
23. Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA (arstechnica.com)
126 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 27, 2013 | 74 comments
24. Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard (boostedboards.posthaven.com)
121 points by skdoo on Aug 27, 2013 | 48 comments
25. Global Government Requests Report (facebook.com)
117 points by r0h1n on Aug 27, 2013 | 56 comments
26. 10gen is now MongoDB, Inc. (mongodb.com)
110 points by larvaetron on Aug 27, 2013 | 38 comments
27. Java Algorithms and Clients (princeton.edu)
97 points by javinpaul on Aug 27, 2013 | 34 comments
28. An open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS (fastcolabs.com)
95 points by espeed on Aug 27, 2013 | 55 comments
29. NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack” (gigaom.com)
94 points by Aaronn on Aug 27, 2013 | 30 comments
30. Researcher controls colleague’s motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (washington.edu)
88 points by Shenglong on Aug 27, 2013 | 27 comments

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