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1. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos (washingtonpost.com)
606 points by Volscio on Aug 5, 2013 | 230 comments
2. U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans (chicagotribune.com)
565 points by wikiburner on Aug 5, 2013 | 260 comments
3. Taken (newyorker.com)
468 points by zt on Aug 5, 2013 | 223 comments
4. “Please let me know if I should stop developing apps for Google Products” (groups.google.com)
437 points by anuaitt on Aug 5, 2013 | 190 comments
5. Torsploit takedown: analysis, reverse engineering, forensic (cryptocloud.org)
276 points by detcader on Aug 5, 2013 | 82 comments
6. Why I'll be a solo founder next time (dennybritz.com)
267 points by dennybritz on Aug 5, 2013 | 145 comments
7. 7 Cups Of Tea (YC S13) Connects People Who Need Emotional Support With Listeners (techcrunch.com)
258 points by zackmiller84 on Aug 5, 2013 | 91 comments
8. Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef (theguardian.com)
257 points by sinesha on Aug 5, 2013 | 264 comments
9. OS X emulation layer for Linux (dolezel.info)
234 points by ilikehunny on Aug 5, 2013 | 54 comments
10. Tesla Nabs 8% of the U.S. Luxury Car Market (fool.com)
229 points by cocoflunchy on Aug 5, 2013 | 169 comments
11. Jeff Bezos on Post purchase (washingtonpost.com)
224 points by _pius on Aug 5, 2013 | 62 comments
12. Introduction to Recommender Systems (coursera.org)
194 points by swGooF on Aug 5, 2013 | 48 comments
13. OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library (openbiometrics.org)
192 points by afics on Aug 5, 2013 | 29 comments
14. Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code (garrytan.com)
194 points by nrcha on Aug 5, 2013 | 78 comments
15. Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity (wired.com)
186 points by magikarp on Aug 5, 2013 | 33 comments
16. Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly (techcrunch.com)
173 points by callmevlad on Aug 5, 2013 | 53 comments
17. Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing (sophos.com)
167 points by Libertatea on Aug 5, 2013 | 178 comments
18. SQL Injection Galore (github.com/search)
157 points by ericmathison on Aug 5, 2013 | 86 comments
19. Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..." (twitter.com/brendaneich)
151 points by andreypopp on Aug 5, 2013 | 54 comments
20. A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) (catonmat.net)
148 points by shawndumas on Aug 5, 2013 | 36 comments
21. A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python (github.com/zedshaw)
145 points by bbgm on Aug 5, 2013 | 12 comments
22. Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox (infinum.co)
144 points by reisub on Aug 5, 2013 | 21 comments
23. A Tipping Point Against The Copyright Monopoly Is A Lot Closer Than You Think (torrentfreak.com)
131 points by Lightning on Aug 5, 2013 | 49 comments
24. Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier (techcrunch.com)
127 points by zefi on Aug 5, 2013 | 27 comments
25. Github needs a new button (joelg236.github.io)
126 points by joelg236 on Aug 5, 2013 | 39 comments
26. Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download, list, delete from Dropbox (github.com/andreafabrizi)
126 points by shawndumas on Aug 5, 2013 | 32 comments
27. The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership (bloomberg.com)
124 points by 1337biz on Aug 5, 2013 | 30 comments
28. Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software (ucla.edu)
123 points by fdb on Aug 5, 2013 | 45 comments
29. Michael Hastings - 911 callers and new video confirm large explosions (sandiego6.com)
125 points by teamgb on Aug 5, 2013 | 85 comments
30. Intro to CoffeeScript (aseemk.com)
121 points by aseemk on Aug 5, 2013 | 89 comments

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