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31. MIT Researchers: Printable Keys Make Mechanical Locks Insecure (dailytech.com)
94 points by geektips on Aug 6, 2013 | 57 comments
32. Firefox 23 is available (mozilla.org)
95 points by lambda_cube on Aug 6, 2013 | 110 comments
33. Unsupervised joke generation from big data (acl2013.org)
91 points by wodow on Aug 6, 2013 | 69 comments
34. Soylent now accepting Bitcoin for preorders (soylent.me)
93 points by ajaymehta on Aug 6, 2013 | 170 comments
35. Freenet Project's Statement on the recent Freedom Hosting bust (freenetproject.org)
93 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 6, 2013 | 26 comments
36. Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess (techcrunch.com)
89 points by colinprince on Aug 6, 2013 | 57 comments
37. Never Be a Customer's Doormat (inc.com)
79 points by bdfh42 on Aug 6, 2013 | 41 comments
38. A fast and static web server for serving web apps (shortfin.io)
77 points by timothy89 on Aug 6, 2013 | 130 comments
39. OMGPOP Team Tried To Buy Back Its Site, But Zynga Killed It Instead (techcrunch.com)
79 points by duck on Aug 6, 2013 | 53 comments
40. Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia, Tyan form OpenPower Consortium (ibm.com)
79 points by pdknsk on Aug 6, 2013 | 41 comments
41. Richard Stallman on proprietary software, SaaS and open source (gigaom.com)
71 points by pixelmonkey on Aug 6, 2013 | 43 comments
42. Bangladesh government to seize control of Grameen Bank (wsj.com)
73 points by austenallred on Aug 6, 2013 | 18 comments
43. Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly (embed.ly)
68 points by brennannovak on Aug 6, 2013 | 16 comments
44. IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
64 points by dmm on Aug 6, 2013 | 47 comments
45. The New Innovation Battlegrounds Are City Hall And The State House (forbes.com/sites/ciocentral)
61 points by pg on Aug 6, 2013 | 53 comments
46. Digital physics (wikipedia.org)
62 points by xd on Aug 6, 2013 | 54 comments
47. Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue (xerox.com)
61 points by soulclap on Aug 6, 2013 | 67 comments
48. OpenX.org compromised and downloads injected with a backdoor (sucuri.net)
63 points by daviddede on Aug 6, 2013 | 13 comments
49. How tech’s young millionaires spend their money (financialpost.com)
56 points by Futurebot on Aug 6, 2013 | 32 comments
50. Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry’s First 3D Vertical NAND Flash (samsung.com)
57 points by jsnk on Aug 6, 2013 | 22 comments
51. Create Your Own Programming Language (createyourproglang.com)
56 points by shawndumas on Aug 6, 2013 | 32 comments
52. US drug agency surveillance unit to be investigated by Department of Justice (theguardian.com)
56 points by Cbasedlifeform on Aug 6, 2013 | 7 comments
53. Patio11 on his 362 day work year & what he does in his break (businessofsoftware.org)
55 points by marklittlewood on Aug 6, 2013 | 47 comments
54. Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop (solaptop.com)
54 points by fdm on Aug 6, 2013 | 36 comments
55. Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have (timcheadle.com)
53 points by fourspace on Aug 6, 2013 | 13 comments
56. Perry Fellwock (wikileaks.org)
53 points by kefs on Aug 6, 2013 | 6 comments
57. Project94 – allocation of 1- and 2-character .org domain names (project94.org)
51 points by drx on Aug 6, 2013 | 42 comments
58. Bezos In 2012: People Won’t Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead (techcrunch.com)
47 points by RobAley on Aug 6, 2013 | 45 comments
59. Show HN: I'm writing an ebook about adventure and giving it away for free (adventureplaybook.com)
47 points by wheresclark on Aug 6, 2013 | 23 comments
60. WebGL GPU Particles (soulwire.co.uk)
47 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2013 | 7 comments

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