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1. In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal (nytimes.com)
502 points by Esifer on June 20, 2013 | 270 comments
2. Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America (ellsberg.net)
377 points by harrisonpowers on June 20, 2013 | 154 comments
3. Hair (codepen.io)
322 points by stevoo on June 20, 2013 | 96 comments
4. Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub (andrej.com)
309 points by jacoblyles on June 20, 2013 | 98 comments
5. One cost engineers and product managers don't consider (firstround.com)
296 points by jkopelman on June 20, 2013 | 99 comments
6. The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant (thenextweb.com)
282 points by brokenparser on June 20, 2013 | 59 comments
7. The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse (medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-techno...)
228 points by thisisdallas on June 20, 2013 | 201 comments
8. LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack (app.net)
210 points by mikegreenspan on June 20, 2013 | 93 comments
9. I Am Bradley Manning (bradleymanning.org)
194 points by volandovengo on June 20, 2013 | 61 comments
10. Aaron’s Law, much-needed reforms to computer crimes law, introduced in Congress (arstechnica.com)
193 points by PiersonBro on June 20, 2013 | 31 comments
11. Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (dadgum.com)
193 points by sbierwagen on June 20, 2013 | 67 comments
12. Blowback from the NSA surveillance. (schneier.com)
189 points by teawithcarl on June 20, 2013 | 29 comments
13. What happened to innovation? (samaltman.com)
182 points by jordn on June 20, 2013 | 136 comments
14. Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective (nature.com)
172 points by nmc on June 20, 2013 | 101 comments
15. What asm.js is and isn't (mozakai.blogspot.com)
167 points by shardling on June 20, 2013 | 49 comments
16. The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club (medium.com/p)
162 points by akristofcak on June 20, 2013 | 117 comments
17. How A Used Bottle Becomes A New Bottle, In 6 Gifs (npr.org)
157 points by jellyksong on June 20, 2013 | 85 comments
18. Statement Regarding Temporary Hiatus on U.S. Dollar Withdrawals (mtgox.com)
161 points by citricsquid on June 20, 2013 | 112 comments
19. We've raised a $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge (firebase.com)
170 points by _pius on June 20, 2013 | 64 comments
20. How to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD (theconversation.com)
142 points by clicks on June 20, 2013 | 40 comments
21. Finding Sociopaths on Facebook (schneier.com)
145 points by anu_gupta on June 20, 2013 | 72 comments
22. Video on Instagram (blog.instagram.com)
136 points by chrislloyd on June 20, 2013 | 143 comments
23. FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says (latimes.com)
126 points by daegloe on June 20, 2013 | 61 comments
24. An App Store Experiment (stuartkhall.com)
127 points by appbot on June 20, 2013 | 67 comments
25. Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison (torrentfreak.com)
117 points by Kiro on June 20, 2013 | 40 comments
26. Government Digital Service Design Principles (gov.uk)
108 points by obilgic on June 20, 2013 | 81 comments
27. PHP 5.5 (github.com/php)
106 points by dave1010uk on June 20, 2013 | 109 comments
28. Lawyers eye NSA data as treasure trove for evidence in murder, divorce cases (nbcnews.com)
107 points by llambda on June 20, 2013 | 37 comments
29. Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype (forbes.com/sites/petercohan)
105 points by ArabGeek on June 20, 2013 | 36 comments
30. A Study of Assassination – CIA (1953) (gwu.edu)
99 points by ferdo on June 20, 2013 | 46 comments

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