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1. The Drone that Killed my Grandson (nytimes.com)
708 points by dr_ on July 18, 2013 | 357 comments
2. Effeckt.css (h5bp.github.io)
472 points by apunic on July 18, 2013 | 95 comments
3. Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years (rte.ie)
393 points by duggieawesome on July 18, 2013 | 115 comments
4. Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right (floobits.com)
375 points by ggreer on July 18, 2013 | 135 comments
5. Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes (winehq.org)
343 points by conductor on July 18, 2013 | 242 comments
6. MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File (wired.com)
297 points by hermanywong on July 18, 2013 | 67 comments
7. Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA (rt.com)
292 points by areski on July 18, 2013 | 146 comments
8. ‘America has no functioning democracy at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA (rt.com)
262 points by sanbor on July 18, 2013 | 125 comments
9. Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation? (charlesalexander2013.wordpress.com)
185 points by cma on July 18, 2013 | 158 comments
10. VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced (thenextweb.com)
190 points by Lightning on July 18, 2013 | 84 comments
11. Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow (notconstructive.com)
176 points by andrewstuart on July 18, 2013 | 196 comments
12. American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998) (newyorker.com)
174 points by georgecmu on July 18, 2013 | 85 comments
13. Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t (wbur.org)
167 points by joshfraser on July 18, 2013 | 81 comments
14. Twilio is erroneously over-billing and suspending accounts (twilio.com)
170 points by amduser29 on July 18, 2013 | 119 comments
15. Snowden's Dead Man's Switch (schneier.com)
161 points by qubitsam on July 18, 2013 | 111 comments
16. The San Francisco Rent Explosion (priceonomics.com)
151 points by jejune06 on July 18, 2013 | 183 comments
17. Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile (xamarin.com)
134 points by evo_9 on July 18, 2013 | 47 comments
18. Ask pg: why have hellbans become so widespread on HN?
131 points by anigbrowl on July 18, 2013 | 114 comments
19. Why I'm Returning Google Glass (internetevolution.com)
131 points by tanglesome on July 18, 2013 | 128 comments
20. Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory [video] (wired.com)
132 points by bearwithclaws on July 18, 2013 | 24 comments
21. TSA searches valet-parked car (whec.com)
127 points by uptown on July 18, 2013 | 52 comments
22. Physicists offer new theory on cancer (asu.edu)
123 points by alphanumeric0 on July 18, 2013 | 67 comments
23. The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft are sending Congress (venturebeat.com)
124 points by johnkoetsier on July 18, 2013 | 103 comments
24. Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job?
118 points by quietthrow on July 18, 2013 | 82 comments
25. Into the Wormhole: An afternoon with Eve Online's least understood demographic (techhive.com)
113 points by cwilson on July 18, 2013 | 34 comments
26. Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering debts (freep.com)
112 points by Irishsteve on July 18, 2013 | 129 comments
27. Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers (sebsauvage.net)
96 points by jessepollak on July 18, 2013 | 70 comments
28. The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conversion (500.co)
94 points by thibaut_barrere on July 18, 2013 | 11 comments
29. Foundation 4.3: Paving the Road to 5 (zurb.com)
92 points by superchink on July 18, 2013 | 27 comments
30. Anonymous hacks FEMA (globalpost.com)
104 points by dhruvkaran on July 18, 2013 | 45 comments

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