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1.Why I Changed My Mind On Weed (cnn.com)
591 points by tptacek on Aug 8, 2013 | 363 comments
2.Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' (aljazeera.com)
332 points by filipmaertens on Aug 8, 2013 | 187 comments
3.Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users (identity.mozilla.com)
346 points by callahad on Aug 8, 2013 | 118 comments
4.Ubuntu Edge price dropped to $695 (indiegogo.com)
320 points by davidjgraph on Aug 8, 2013 | 153 comments
5.Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox (jwz.org)
309 points by mfincham on Aug 8, 2013 | 146 comments
6.Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle (wired.com)
293 points by bcl on Aug 8, 2013 | 88 comments
7.I quit my job (madebyloren.com)
289 points by guynamedloren on Aug 8, 2013 | 189 comments
8.Hacker News Web App for Mobile (premii.com)
239 points by EtienneK on Aug 8, 2013 | 160 comments
9.Shutting Down a Dream (dandreamsofcoding.com)
231 points by bratfarrar on Aug 8, 2013 | 81 comments
10.GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud (mediagoblin.org)
224 points by diminish on Aug 8, 2013 | 68 comments
11.Donate to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund (paypal.com)
204 points by sethbannon on Aug 8, 2013 | 46 comments
12.Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions (stuartkhall.com)
188 points by vlbeta on Aug 8, 2013 | 62 comments
13.New Rust runtime turned on. What next? (mail.mozilla.org)
186 points by usea on Aug 8, 2013 | 114 comments
14.Patent Troll Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business (marco.org)
176 points by ghshephard on Aug 8, 2013 | 41 comments
15.Russia's Mark Zuckerberg offers Snowden a job. (cnn.com)
177 points by teawithcarl on Aug 8, 2013 | 105 comments
16.Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart (joyent.com)
167 points by ChrisArchitect on Aug 8, 2013 | 33 comments
17.Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands? (bbc.co.uk)
164 points by Libertatea on Aug 8, 2013 | 159 comments
18.Enterprise Sales Tips for Hackers (brandonb.cc)
159 points by brandonb on Aug 8, 2013 | 72 comments
19.Amazon's profits (ben-evans.com)
159 points by barista on Aug 8, 2013 | 144 comments
20.Create a font from your own handwriting (myscriptfont.com)
149 points by loki_dx on Aug 8, 2013 | 64 comments

For the unfamiliar: Lavabit was a webmail service, that (claimed to) encrypt emails in such a way that they literally did not have access to the content stored on their own servers. The linked email would lend some credence to those claims. It was originally designed in contrast to gmail scanning your email for targeted advertising, but my imperfect memory says that their system should also have been resilient to "we have a warrant, hand over the data."
22.The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill (economist.com)
140 points by qingu on Aug 8, 2013 | 76 comments
23.End to end encrypted email, based in Sweden (countermail.com)
142 points by jstalin on Aug 8, 2013 | 73 comments
24. [dupe] Mail provider allegedly used by Snowden suspending operations (72.249.41.52)
134 points by subsystem on Aug 8, 2013 | 31 comments
25.Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math (skibinsky.com)
132 points by jamesmiller5 on Aug 8, 2013 | 25 comments
26.Getting to Docker 1.0 (docker.io)
139 points by julien421 on Aug 8, 2013 | 38 comments
27.Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007) (wired.com)
127 points by computer on Aug 8, 2013 | 46 comments
28.How to build a procedural city in WebGL (learningthreejs.com)
121 points by jetienne2 on Aug 8, 2013 | 19 comments
29.Professor's apparent request to student for fake data published by mistake (chembark.com)
112 points by apo on Aug 8, 2013 | 47 comments
30.Queueing in the Linux Network Stack (coverfire.com)
110 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 8, 2013 | 8 comments

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