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1.I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. (nytimes.com)
296 points by clbrook on Aug 25, 2013 | 243 comments
2.NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show (gigaom.com)
282 points by electic on Aug 25, 2013 | 108 comments
3.Nimrod: C + Macros + GC (nimrod-code.org)
211 points by norswap on Aug 25, 2013 | 111 comments
4.Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying (eff.org)
193 points by espeed on Aug 25, 2013 | 27 comments
5.JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator (parall.ax)
191 points by smanuel on Aug 25, 2013 | 67 comments
6.How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater (nytimes.com)
175 points by zdean on Aug 25, 2013 | 183 comments
7.On the Cleverness of Compilers (radul.name)
169 points by nkurz on Aug 25, 2013 | 54 comments
8.GitLab 6.0 Released (blog.gitlab.org)
168 points by conductor on Aug 25, 2013 | 88 comments
9.List of freely available programming books (stackoverflow.com)
157 points by S4M on Aug 25, 2013 | 31 comments
10.Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity (garthontech.blogspot.ca)
140 points by RandyRanderson on Aug 25, 2013 | 145 comments
11.This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer (nycfreshmarket.com)
131 points by talhof8 on Aug 25, 2013 | 148 comments
12.How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit (jameslarisch.com)
126 points by dysruption on Aug 25, 2013 | 100 comments
13.On Lisp (paulgraham.com)
125 points by luu on Aug 25, 2013 | 104 comments
14.Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework (adminjs.com)
119 points by ghempton on Aug 25, 2013 | 26 comments
15.Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick (coursera.org)
109 points by carlosgg on Aug 25, 2013 | 33 comments
16.Show HN: I designed a language for code golf, compiling to Common Lisp (rhoscript.com)
102 points by n_c on Aug 25, 2013 | 40 comments
17.Install Ubuntu On Your Chromebook (greenido.wordpress.com)
94 points by greenido on Aug 25, 2013 | 48 comments
18.Myth: Select * is Bad (use-the-index-luke.com)
87 points by fatalmind on Aug 25, 2013 | 67 comments
19.If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple (stratechery.com)
87 points by greedo on Aug 25, 2013 | 84 comments
20.U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel (reuters.com)
78 points by Suraj-Sun on Aug 25, 2013 | 84 comments
21.Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web (storminthecastle.com)
80 points by johnrobinsn on Aug 25, 2013 | 34 comments

Calibre (and the plugins to remove DRM) is the only thing that makes e-books worthwhile, despite still being overpriced. I wouldn't be wasting money on e-books if I couldn't use them as freely as physical books.

iPad, Kindle, Nook etcetera, it's all the same incompatible DRM-crippled crap. Without the existence of Calibre it's pretty much impossible to have your own virtual library.

This software should get way more credit and support. Especially from publishers that support DRM-free books, like O'Reilly.

23.The Maginot Line (techcrunch.com)
70 points by devindotcom on Aug 25, 2013 | 34 comments
24.Use two-factor authentication for Persona with your own domain (stavros.io)
73 points by stavros on Aug 25, 2013 | 18 comments
25.NSA spied on UN, breaking active agreements (spiegel.de)
70 points by sarnowski on Aug 25, 2013 | 20 comments
26.Google updates Play policies to require games to use its in-app billing service (thenextweb.com)
64 points by TomAnthony on Aug 25, 2013 | 44 comments
27.Help, I'm Too Smart For My Job (linkedin.com)
65 points by kenshiro_o on Aug 25, 2013 | 29 comments
28.SteveB’s Retirement Announcement (hal2020.com)
59 points by protomyth on Aug 25, 2013 | 71 comments

He's missing the other half of why 'select *' is bad, which really is about the star: Selecting columns by name automatically makes almost all incompatible schema changes cause the query to fail (in an easily detected place, for an obvious reason), while still allowing non-breaking schema changes like adding or dropping columns you don't use to have exactly the same behavior as before.
30.Windows 8.1 quietly gets released to manufacturers (guru8.net)
54 points by mboses on Aug 25, 2013 | 51 comments

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