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1. We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012) (stackoverflow.com)
661 points by ambuj on Aug 1, 2013 | 236 comments
2. Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport (rt.com)
527 points by message on Aug 1, 2013 | 492 comments
3. Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my (medium.com/something-like-falling)
514 points by steveklabnik on Aug 1, 2013 | 273 comments
4. Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second (techcrunch.com)
460 points by Osiris on Aug 1, 2013 | 253 comments
5. Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users (delyan.me)
447 points by ZoFreX on Aug 1, 2013 | 155 comments
6. [dupe] Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds (theatlanticwire.com)
428 points by pg on Aug 1, 2013 | 215 comments
7. Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented (priceonomics.com)
402 points by pisarzp on Aug 1, 2013 | 79 comments
8. In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity (nytimes.com)
274 points by kmfrk on Aug 1, 2013 | 97 comments
9. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
279 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2013 | 385 comments
10. Forebruary, an endless wall calendar (ilyabirman.net)
247 points by ilyabirman on Aug 1, 2013 | 101 comments
11. Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy (pachamama.org)
243 points by samspenc on Aug 1, 2013 | 188 comments
12. New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages (arstechnica.com)
233 points by jamescun on Aug 1, 2013 | 55 comments
13. A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites (hanselman.com)
221 points by DevKoala on Aug 1, 2013 | 69 comments
14. PEP 8 Modernisation (python.org)
213 points by tristaneuan on Aug 1, 2013 | 141 comments
15. Employer Tipped Off Police In Pressure Cooker/Backpack-gate, Not Google (techcrunch.com)
187 points by coloneltcb on Aug 1, 2013 | 116 comments
16. The Belt CPU Architecture (ootbcomp.com)
183 points by momerath on Aug 1, 2013 | 79 comments
17. Compilers in OpenBSD (marc.info)
171 points by hebz0rl on Aug 1, 2013 | 74 comments
18. Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana (csmonitor.com)
178 points by anigbrowl on Aug 1, 2013 | 65 comments
19. John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream (twitch.tv)
167 points by ivank on Aug 1, 2013 | 47 comments
20. Basics Of Function Pointers In C (denniskubes.com)
160 points by giis on Aug 1, 2013 | 57 comments
21. Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000) (amazon.com)
155 points by adambratt on Aug 1, 2013 | 101 comments
22. NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ (theguardian.com)
153 points by colin_jack on Aug 1, 2013 | 59 comments
23. YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital (techcrunch.com)
147 points by immad on Aug 1, 2013 | 35 comments
24. How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup (speakeasy.is)
140 points by kevinbracken on Aug 1, 2013 | 112 comments
25. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)
135 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2013 | 161 comments
26. In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning (newyorker.com)
139 points by soneca on Aug 1, 2013 | 19 comments
27. Defense subcontractor posted a job listing for XKEYSCORE 2 weeks ago (washingtonpost.com)
132 points by steveklabnik on Aug 1, 2013 | 99 comments
28. "Accidentally" Freelance (unwieldy.net)
123 points by endtwist on Aug 1, 2013 | 55 comments
29. Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
117 points by dhotson on Aug 1, 2013 | 4 comments
30. PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful (morepypy.blogspot.com)
113 points by bivab on Aug 1, 2013 | 8 comments

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