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31. Here’s why economists hate software patents (washingtonpost.com)
102 points by Libertatea on Aug 1, 2013 | 57 comments
32. Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities (leaverou.github.io)
97 points by Dekku on Aug 1, 2013 | 19 comments
33. Application Development in Go (jasonroelofs.com)
87 points by jameskilton on Aug 1, 2013 | 25 comments
34. The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) (milliondollarhomepage.com)
78 points by tomthorns on Aug 1, 2013 | 82 comments
35. Edward Snowden leaves Moscow airport (theguardian.com)
78 points by Roonerelli on Aug 1, 2013 | 3 comments
36. True Link (YC S13) To Help The Elderly Avoid Scammers With Pre-Paid Visa Cards (techcrunch.com)
73 points by clicks on Aug 1, 2013 | 27 comments
37. Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper (shopify.ca)
84 points by speg on Aug 1, 2013 | 25 comments
38. NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs (arstechnica.com)
66 points by shawndumas on Aug 1, 2013 | 6 comments
39. CSV as a Data Source (chartio.com)
74 points by thingsilearned on Aug 1, 2013 | 52 comments
40. Soylent reaches $1M in pre-orders (techcrunch.com)
64 points by rogerfernandezg on Aug 1, 2013 | 69 comments
41. Declan McCullagh on Pressure-CookerGate (plus.google.com)
62 points by tptacek on Aug 1, 2013 | 75 comments
42. Google Details PNaCl Native Client LLVM Bitcode (phoronix.com)
64 points by GravityWell on Aug 1, 2013 | 27 comments
43. Moto X phone specifications (motorola.com)
62 points by soupboy on Aug 1, 2013 | 83 comments
44. Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint (newscientist.com)
61 points by antr on Aug 1, 2013 | 20 comments
45. The crazy ideas which failed to solve the longitude problem [video] (bbc.co.uk)
58 points by petercooper on Aug 1, 2013 | 12 comments
46. NoFlo: Help Everyone To Understand And Visualize Code (techcrunch.com)
58 points by sarreph on Aug 1, 2013 | 48 comments
47. Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments and selling online (9to5mac.com)
56 points by jack-r-abbit on Aug 1, 2013 | 41 comments
48. Javascript Constructors and Prototypes (tobyho.com)
52 points by nccong on Aug 1, 2013 | 51 comments
49. Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet (threatpost.com)
46 points by ctoth on Aug 1, 2013 | 42 comments
50. Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not. (washingtonpost.com)
49 points by brown9-2 on Aug 1, 2013 | 40 comments
51. HootSuite Raises $165M Series B (techcrunch.com)
46 points by togasystems on Aug 1, 2013 | 30 comments
52. FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects (wsj.com)
44 points by carolinea on Aug 1, 2013 | 11 comments
53. Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? (vanityfair.com)
44 points by dcaisen on Aug 1, 2013 | 1 comment
54. Solowheel (solowheel.com)
43 points by rwfilice on Aug 1, 2013 | 53 comments
55. Nginx Performance Tuning for SSL (techsamurais.com)
46 points by pkandathil on Aug 1, 2013 | 19 comments
56. Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo? (businessweek.com)
39 points by jmduke on Aug 1, 2013 | 38 comments
57. JavaScript ‘wake’ event (alexmaccaw.com)
39 points by shawndumas on Aug 1, 2013 | 7 comments
58. Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address (arstechnica.com)
38 points by martey on Aug 1, 2013 | 20 comments
59. Binaural beats (wikipedia.org)
35 points by mdturnerphys on Aug 1, 2013 | 46 comments
60. Why cooperators always win in the long run (phys.org)
36 points by userulluipeste on Aug 1, 2013 | 11 comments

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