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1.Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range (kickstarter.com)
363 points by trafnar on Aug 27, 2013 | 139 comments
2.The CODE Keyboard (codinghorror.com)
356 points by basil on Aug 27, 2013 | 326 comments
3.Go After 2 Years in Production (iron.io)
323 points by treeder on Aug 27, 2013 | 173 comments
4.What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (lifehacker.com)
246 points by zerny on Aug 27, 2013 | 93 comments
5.Logstash joins Elasticsearch (elasticsearch.com)
242 points by j4mie on Aug 27, 2013 | 57 comments
6.Principles of Reactive Programming (coursera.org)
215 points by steveb on Aug 27, 2013 | 47 comments
7.Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development (hacks.mozilla.org)
207 points by rnyman on Aug 27, 2013 | 86 comments
8.Stripe launches German beta (stripe.com)
193 points by TomAnthony on Aug 27, 2013 | 161 comments
9.Did The TSA and JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? No (boardingarea.com)
193 points by mlm on Aug 27, 2013 | 222 comments
10.Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby (puma.io)
164 points by bretpiatt on Aug 27, 2013 | 83 comments
11.Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN (tinfoilsecurity.com)
168 points by bensedat on Aug 27, 2013 | 123 comments
12.Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility (thenextweb.com)
163 points by jpadilla_ on Aug 27, 2013 | 99 comments
13.Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts (herculesandtheumpire.com)
157 points by danso on Aug 27, 2013 | 111 comments
14.Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2 (groups.google.com)
154 points by bpierre on Aug 27, 2013 | 16 comments
15.Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets (theguardian.com)
157 points by pwg on Aug 27, 2013 | 141 comments
16.Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means (techrepublic.com)
147 points by heyitsnick on Aug 27, 2013 | 45 comments
17.Detaining David Miranda (schneier.com)
138 points by dllthomas on Aug 27, 2013 | 42 comments
18.Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase (coinbase.com)
140 points by FredEE on Aug 27, 2013 | 49 comments
19.What is algebra? (profkeithdevlin.org)
135 points by ColinWright on Aug 27, 2013 | 85 comments
20.F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales (research.google.com)
131 points by alec on Aug 27, 2013 | 23 comments
21.A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js (intentionjs.com)
134 points by joe8756438 on Aug 27, 2013 | 53 comments
22.Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA (arstechnica.com)
126 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 27, 2013 | 74 comments
23.Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard (boostedboards.posthaven.com)
121 points by skdoo on Aug 27, 2013 | 48 comments
24.Global Government Requests Report (facebook.com)
117 points by r0h1n on Aug 27, 2013 | 56 comments
25.10gen is now MongoDB, Inc. (mongodb.com)
110 points by larvaetron on Aug 27, 2013 | 38 comments
26.Java Algorithms and Clients (princeton.edu)
97 points by javinpaul on Aug 27, 2013 | 34 comments
27.An open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS (fastcolabs.com)
95 points by espeed on Aug 27, 2013 | 55 comments

We're not in 1984. We're not in Brave New World. We're not even in Zamyatin's We. We're in bloody Brazil.

                                     INTERVIEWER
                         Deputy minister, what do you believe 
                         is behind this recent increase in 
                         terrorist bombings?

                                     HELPMANN
                         Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless 
                         minority of people seems to have 
                         forgotten certain good old fashioned 
                         virtues. They just can't stand 
                         seeing the other fellow win. If 
                         these people would just play the 
                         game, instead of standing on the 
                         touch line heckling

                                     INTERVIEWER
                         In fact, killing people

                                     HELPMANN
                         In fact, killing people  they'd 
                         get a lot more out of life.

               We PULL AWAY from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers. 
               Helpmann's voice carries over the rest of the scene.

                                     INTERVIEWER
                         Mr. Helpmann, what would you say 
                         to those critics who maintain that 
                         the Ministry Of Information has 
                         become too large and unwieldy... ?

                                     HELPMANN
                         David... in a free society 
                         information is the name of the 
                         game. You can't win the game if 
                         you're a man short.
29.NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack” (gigaom.com)
94 points by Aaronn on Aug 27, 2013 | 30 comments
30.Researcher controls colleague’s motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (washington.edu)
88 points by Shenglong on Aug 27, 2013 | 27 comments

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