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31.US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say (nbcnews.com)
104 points by danso on Aug 21, 2013 | 48 comments
32.EFF Pioneer Awards: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras (eff.org)
103 points by schoen on Aug 21, 2013 | 5 comments
33.Ubuntu Edge - Less than 24 hours left, $20 million to go (indiegogo.com)
99 points by hmottestad on Aug 21, 2013 | 68 comments
34.How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer (krebsonsecurity.com)
96 points by jessaustin on Aug 21, 2013 | 31 comments
35.Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data (relistan.com)
100 points by jbellis on Aug 21, 2013 | 81 comments
36.New Zealand's GCSB spying bill becomes law (3news.co.nz)
95 points by wlj on Aug 21, 2013 | 18 comments
37.Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access (nytimes.com)
99 points by goatslacker on Aug 21, 2013 | 65 comments
38.Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf] (pnas.org)
90 points by WestCoastJustin on Aug 21, 2013 | 42 comments
39. [dupe] Groklaw news website abandoned over US surveillance (bbc.co.uk)
82 points by ColinWright on Aug 21, 2013 | 9 comments
40.RethinkDB now available on AWS marketplace (rethinkdb.com)
81 points by coffeemug on Aug 21, 2013 | 26 comments
41.29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010) (acs.org)
77 points by balsam on Aug 21, 2013 | 65 comments
42.Why the Only Real Way to Buy Bitcoins Is on the Streets (wired.com)
79 points by ca98am79 on Aug 21, 2013 | 33 comments
43.Let’s Start a Revolution (jan.io)
71 points by decklin on Aug 21, 2013 | 25 comments
44.Willow Garage shutting down (willowgarage.com)
72 points by mjtokelly on Aug 21, 2013 | 13 comments
45.Hacker News has native mobile view (news.ycombinator.com)
66 points by 8ig8 on Aug 21, 2013 | 44 comments
46.Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption (schneier.com)
68 points by qubitsam on Aug 21, 2013 | 10 comments
47.Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program (hackerschool.com)
65 points by davidbalbert on Aug 21, 2013 | 6 comments
48.The Linux Pseudorandom Number Generator Revisited (iacr.org)
62 points by colinprince on Aug 21, 2013 | 3 comments
49.PRSM - The Sharing Network (getprsm.com)
60 points by donohoe on Aug 21, 2013 | 6 comments
50.Bitcoin is a Startup (tlrobinson.net)
57 points by tlrobinson on Aug 21, 2013 | 79 comments
51.Ditch Your Passwords? US Gov To Issue Secure Online IDs (forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt)
56 points by elleferrer on Aug 21, 2013 | 74 comments
52.Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the Universe Just a Giant Computer Simulation? (time.com)
52 points by Kinnard on Aug 21, 2013 | 71 comments
53.Fraudsters target "wire payment switch" at banks to steal millions (scmagazine.com)
51 points by maskofsanity on Aug 21, 2013 | 7 comments
54.WikiLeaks candidate quits upcoming Australian elections (abc.net.au)
50 points by apapli on Aug 21, 2013 | 41 comments
55.Promises/A+ - understanding the spec through implementation (modernjavascript.blogspot.com)
48 points by shawndumas on Aug 21, 2013 | 11 comments
56.Adventures in designing and building a tsunami-proof boat (tsunamiball.com)
46 points by lisper on Aug 21, 2013 | 34 comments
57.Help HN: Dear Apple, why do you sell products in India?
42 points by jalan on Aug 21, 2013 | 22 comments
58.Jolla’s first batch of Sailfish smartphones is fully booked (thenextweb.com)
40 points by programmerby on Aug 21, 2013 | 17 comments
59.Hidden HN Pages
40 points by bce on Aug 21, 2013 | 6 comments
60.Bugsnag API Launch (bugsnag.com)
43 points by cirwin on Aug 21, 2013 | 3 comments

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