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961.

Pentagon Now Sees Big Data as 'National Security Threat' (killerapps.foreignpolicy.com)

89 points by boh on Aug 13, 2013 | 29 comments

962.

US and UK at odds over security tactics (theguardian.com)

89 points by ollysb on Aug 20, 2013 | 22 comments

963.

Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist (ferd.ca)

89 points by pjvds on Aug 15, 2013 | 19 comments

964.

San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth (latimes.com)

88 points by dmckeon on Aug 14, 2013 | 140 comments

965.

SSD myths and legends: write endurance (storagesearch.com)

88 points by wslh on Aug 10, 2013 | 76 comments

966.

Why isn't there a Kickstarter for killing patents? (galenward.com)

88 points by EAKoester on Aug 10, 2013 | 66 comments

967.

The Kickstarter Culture Wars (time.com)

88 points by replicatorblog on Aug 15, 2013 | 57 comments

968.

I Raised My Kids On the Command Line and They Love It (2012) (lifehacker.com)

88 points by reubensutton on Aug 23, 2013 | 56 comments

969.

Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of change (yahoo.tumblr.com)

88 points by daegloe on Aug 7, 2013 | 49 comments

970.

Rails 4 startup template (github.com)

88 points by dennybritz on Aug 11, 2013 | 42 comments

971.

Amazon was down (amazon.com)

88 points by wsidell on Aug 19, 2013 | 40 comments

972.

Andy Hertzfeld on the Original 'Boot Beep' (folklore.org)

88 points by evo_9 on Aug 29, 2013 | 36 comments

973.

Plotagon – Make a movie by just writing a story (plotagon.com)

88 points by DouweM on Aug 31, 2013 | 36 comments

974.

Google supports MariaDB (theregister.co.uk)

88 points by GravityWell on Aug 8, 2013 | 32 comments

975.

Researcher controls colleague’s motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (washington.edu)

88 points by Shenglong on Aug 27, 2013 | 27 comments

976.

A Visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom (blog.wolfram.com)

88 points by bryang on Aug 13, 2013 | 25 comments

977.

Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet (theconnectivist.com)

88 points by bsmith on Aug 5, 2013 | 23 comments

978.

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf] (antipolygraph.org)

88 points by WestCoastJustin on Aug 31, 2013 | 22 comments

979.

Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)

87 points by patmcguire on Aug 27, 2013 | 118 comments

980.

If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple (stratechery.com)

87 points by greedo on Aug 25, 2013 | 84 comments

981.

Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux (fossforce.com)

87 points by Nathandim on Aug 2, 2013 | 80 comments

982.

Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns (news.com.au)

87 points by dolphenstein on Aug 15, 2013 | 79 comments

983.

Myth: Select * is Bad (use-the-index-luke.com)

87 points by fatalmind on Aug 25, 2013 | 67 comments

984.

NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins (arstechnica.com)

87 points by moonlighter on Aug 30, 2013 | 67 comments

985.

New Form of Carbon is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond (technologyreview.com)

87 points by qubitsam on Aug 15, 2013 | 49 comments

986.

Stealth Startups Are Stupid (alexstechthoughts.com)

87 points by Ataub24 on Aug 7, 2013 | 38 comments

987.

SoundFocus (YC S13) Launches With an App for ‘20/20 Hearing’ (techcrunch.com)