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1.Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites (kotowicz.net)
516 points by jamzed on July 12, 2013 | 58 comments
2.Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google (samwhited.com)
442 points by SamWhited on July 12, 2013 | 300 comments
3.Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport (wikileaks.org)
404 points by pvnick on July 12, 2013 | 239 comments
4.Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83 (web.mit.edu)
368 points by jefftchan on July 12, 2013 | 159 comments
5. [dupe] Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals (rt.com)
298 points by psibi on July 12, 2013 | 114 comments
6.The Grep Test (jamie-wong.com)
284 points by phleet on July 12, 2013 | 169 comments
7.Estonian E-Voting Source Code Made Public (err.ee)
275 points by timgluz on July 12, 2013 | 137 comments
8.Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen (npr.org)
221 points by iProject on July 12, 2013 | 153 comments
9.Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (yosefk.com)
214 points by smackay on July 12, 2013 | 112 comments
10.Revising MailChimp's logo (jessicahische.is)
212 points by darkchyld on July 12, 2013 | 64 comments
11.Keep a static "emergency mode" site on S3 (coderwall.com)
212 points by jonthepirate on July 12, 2013 | 82 comments
12.The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional (wsj.com)
203 points by jalanco on July 12, 2013 | 64 comments
13.5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage (southampton.ac.uk)
188 points by swombat on July 12, 2013 | 111 comments
14.Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox (qwerjk.com)
179 points by abentspoon on July 12, 2013 | 148 comments
15.If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012) (michaelnielsen.org)
173 points by Rickasaurus on July 12, 2013 | 69 comments
16.Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X (theregister.co.uk)
164 points by tmzt on July 12, 2013 | 148 comments
17.Think Distributed: A Distributed Systems Podcast (thinkdistributed.io)
135 points by cmeiklejohn on July 12, 2013 | 34 comments
18.So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site (hacks.mozilla.org)
133 points by ncasenmare on July 12, 2013 | 10 comments
19.My Product Has Failed (ironconversions.com)
127 points by rmason on July 12, 2013 | 67 comments
20.DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot (extremetech.com)
123 points by Dj_Anthony2013 on July 12, 2013 | 89 comments
21.Snowden to meet with human rights groups in Moscow (ruvr.ru)
118 points by znowi on July 12, 2013 | 31 comments
22.Edward Snowden appears at Moscow airport and renews asylum claim (guardian.co.uk)
113 points by teawithcarl on July 12, 2013 | 30 comments
23.Sen. Wyden imagines the White House is willing to reconsider surveillance (rt.com)
113 points by j_baker on July 12, 2013 | 96 comments
24.Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app (aljazeera.com)
113 points by ramisms on July 12, 2013 | 67 comments
25.Python quirks (lshift.net)
111 points by luu on July 12, 2013 | 56 comments
26.Snowden Is Said to Renew Plea for Asylum in Russia (nytimes.com)
109 points by captiva12 on July 12, 2013 | 28 comments
27.New developments in the Opus audio codec (xiph.org)
108 points by nullc on July 12, 2013 | 22 comments
28.Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Skyrocket (2012) (techyville.com)
105 points by nashequilibrium on July 12, 2013 | 67 comments
29.Introduction to Support Vector Machines (rvlasveld.github.io)
104 points by rvlasveld on July 12, 2013 | 18 comments
30.Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government (smh.com.au)
104 points by zzygan on July 12, 2013 | 28 comments

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