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1.Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney (washingtonpost.com)
448 points by eplanit on July 2, 2013 | 118 comments
2.Python Tools for Visual Studio (hanselman.com)
412 points by numo16 on July 2, 2013 | 130 comments
3.Google Reader is dead (google.com)
388 points by voidfiles on July 2, 2013 | 211 comments
4.Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome (slashdot.org)
323 points by bpierre on July 2, 2013 | 136 comments
5.Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” (nczonline.net)
317 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 | 185 comments
6.Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash (slate.com)
298 points by ctoth on July 2, 2013 | 219 comments
7.Restore the Fourth Organizes Protests Against Unconstitutional Surveillance (eff.org)
269 points by ndesaulniers on July 2, 2013 | 60 comments
8.Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll (toddmoore.com)
263 points by dave1619 on July 2, 2013 | 60 comments
9.Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts (brainpickings.org)
219 points by pg on July 2, 2013 | 82 comments
10.Breaking a Toy Hash Function (twistedoakstudios.com)
213 points by pizza on July 2, 2013 | 20 comments
11.Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean (remcobron.com)
212 points by remcobron on July 2, 2013 | 113 comments
12.Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later (basho.com)
188 points by kermatt on July 2, 2013 | 47 comments
13.Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source) (streak.com)
170 points by alooPotato on July 2, 2013 | 98 comments
14.Jury finds protester not guilty in chalk-vandalism case (latimes.com)
155 points by scottshea on July 2, 2013 | 71 comments
15.The 4 AM Army (time.com)
147 points by w1ntermute on July 2, 2013 | 143 comments
16.Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS (danielwellman.com)
139 points by pelf on July 2, 2013 | 18 comments
17.Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions (vudlab.com)
139 points by lewis500 on July 2, 2013 | 37 comments
18.You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal (wired.com)
138 points by Libertatea on July 2, 2013 | 144 comments
19.Pirated Apps in the App Store (lipsky.me)
134 points by jonlipsky on July 2, 2013 | 44 comments
20.Girl buys water, spends night in jail (yahoo.com)
137 points by commanderj on July 2, 2013 | 145 comments
21.Google flights (google.com)
134 points by recycleme on July 2, 2013 | 65 comments

I still don't forgive Microsoft for being absolutely massive tools in the past. As such, they have a higher bar to jump over if they want me to acknowledge that they have created a "modern" browser. They have to make a browser that beats every other browser in it's standards compliance, stability and performance. They have to create the greatest browser that has ever been and ever will be. And only then will I even consider giving them a ounce of recognition.

Not that Microsoft (or anyone for that matter) cares what I think, but that's the price I've set in order for MS to pay off the debt it's worked up over the years as I wasted weeks, possibly months of my life getting things to work in their turd of a.... a.... a looking-at-the-web-kind-of-application-thing. I wont even call it a browser.

Or better yet, I wish IE was thrown away and forgotten about, and like Voldemort, it's name would only ever be heard in hushed whispers lest it's evil spirit be awoken. It would become a ghost story web developers tell their web developing kids; "Be standards compliant, or IE6 will come and get yoooOOOOU!".

But then I'm old and cranky. The kids will probably love IE19b Custard Pro Home Edition and they'll rally behind it to get IE back to the number 1 slot because it's somehow retro and cool, and I'll laugh in their spotty faces when IE regains it supremacy and Microsoft turns around and shits in their stupid faces all over again, and the internet becomes a desolate wasteland where Bing is the only search engine and the top hit is always an Encarta entry.

Wow, I'm in a special kind of a bad mood today.

23.Russian Proton Rocket crashes Seconds after Launch (spaceflight101.com)
132 points by antr on July 2, 2013 | 122 comments
24.Frameworks Round 6 (techempower.com)
125 points by amarsahinovic on July 2, 2013 | 132 comments
25.Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality just got several fascinating updates (hpmor.com)
125 points by benhamner on July 2, 2013 | 99 comments
26.State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes' (washingtonexaminer.com)
125 points by stfu on July 2, 2013 | 35 comments
27.How We Hit $912 Million in Sales (inc.com)
122 points by gavreh on July 2, 2013 | 55 comments
28.The first physical Facebook fan counter for local businesses (smiirl.com)
117 points by Gauhier on July 2, 2013 | 91 comments
29.The Underhanded C contest (xcott.com)
116 points by gnosis on July 2, 2013 | 11 comments

Google Reader kept the content of RSS feeds cached forever, meaning it was the last surviving record of a huge number of dead and deleted blogs. The Archive Team have spent the last month or so fetching those blogs out of Reader to serve as a permanent archive. They posted a few days ago on HN asking for some last minute help, and managed to archive 46.23M feeds.

Check out their efforts here: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader


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