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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

This is a web page

1301

2

NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor

1233

3

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance

1222

4

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

1191

5

1094

6

What is Happening in Istanbul?

984

7

US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program

962

8

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

809

9

Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?

803

10

772

Top Ask HN

1

Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?

361

2

Who is hiring? (June 2013)

237

3

Alternatives to HN

187

4

Passive income ideas?

182

5

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013)

108

6

Has the "Who's Hiring" thing worked out for anyone?

106

7

Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months?

102

8

How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?

99

9

What is your experience making a free service completely paid?

80

10

Favorite mailing lists, IRC channels

74

Top Show HN

1

Logos in Pure CSS

272

2

Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

254

3

Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app

180

4

Nightweb, the anonymous P2P social network, now runs on the desktop

177

5

Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

154

6

arkOS - Securely self-hosting your data

149

7

We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music

143

8

I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server

130

9

Invoice-o-matic a free online invoice tool

118

10

Show HN Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps

116

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch StopWatching.Us

485

2

PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever

444

3

New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data

390

4

Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway

331

5

WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI

329

6

Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M

288

7

European roaming charges will end in 2014

275

8

The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant

274

9

Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world

241

10

Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

238

News [?]

1

US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program

962

2

Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?

803

3

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

724

4

Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims

560

5

The Criminal N.S.A.

552

6

Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government

548

7

In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal

479

8

U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls

476

9

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

471

10

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

456

Scientific publications [?]

1

Never-Before-Seen Alien Planet Imaged Directly in New Photo

75

2

"Cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers and more efficacious"

73

3

Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable

73

4

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

46

5

Miniature Quadruped Robot Is Blazingly Fast

39

6

New 31-km-long International Linear Collider ready for construction

33

7

Precise measurements test QED, constrain possible fifth fundamental force

17

8

Artificial Magnetic Monopoles Discovered

9

9

4 mics and a computer to produce 3-D model of room

7

10

New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology

5

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Internet Is a Surveillance State

517

2

Send payouts with Stripe

285

3

Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata

274

4

Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers

260

5

Blowback from the NSA surveillance.

182

6

Facts about Wayland vs X

155

7

Foxconn Joins the Firefox OS Eco-System

151

8

CloudFlare, PRISM, and Securing SSL Ciphers

139

9

Finding Sociopaths on Facebook

138

10

Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance

96

Tech blogs [?]

1

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

1191

2

Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors

736

3

430

4

Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying

396

5

Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Must Stay Secret

311

6

Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video]

288

7

FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case

214

8

Steve Jobs Ponders His Legacy In Never-Before-Seen 1994 Video

207

9

EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records

173

10

EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents

160

FAANG+ [?]

1

641

2

283

3

WWDC 2013 Keynote

172

4

Apples Commitment to Customer Privacy

139

5

Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

103

6

C# Language Specification 5.0

92

7

Amazon's full size PDF reader, the Kindle DX, is back

31

8

Apples Commitment to Customer Privacy

13

9

Amazon CloudFront now supports Custom SSL Certificates and Zone Apex

13

10

Modern Design at Microsoft

8

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV

156

2

Pirate Bay Founder Guilty of Hacking, Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

111

3

Estimated Cost to Store All US Phone Calls Made in a Year

86

4

MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With Precision Takedown

44

5

ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor

40

6

New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates

38

7

Copyright Monopoly Enforcement Today Is A Mass Psychosis

35

8

Blink's Rendering Pipeline

35

9

ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor

32

10

Hey Hadopi, Youre Breaking The Law.

29

Science News [?]

1

Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective

165

2

How to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD

141

3

Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

100

4

Whole human brain mapped in 3D

95

5

Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico

84

6

Father’s genetic quest pays off

68

7

Report finds that Human Genome Project has added $1 trillion to US economy

67

8

New Sensor a Thousand Times More Sensitive Than Current Camera Sensors

44

9

Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts

39

10

Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star -- Gliese 667c

21

Social [?]

1

Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry?

569

2

Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM

384

3

People with nothing to hide

310

4

NY auto dealers trying to shut down Tesla Motors in NY

233

5

Leaseweb has wiped all Megaupload servers

180

6

John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus

157

7

Rally in Hong Kong to Support Edward Snowden

156

8

Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information

130

9

Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government

120

10

EFF: Google's Transparency Report does not include FISA court orders

113

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers

395

2

Repository Next

380

3

A list of front end development resources

365

4

There's a map for that

291

5

SQL injection search

277

6

Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly

274

7

AngularJS Learning Resources

246

8

Encrypt your Google chats and make the NSA sad

235

9

Python Flask NSA Backdoor

161

10

Lisp Koans by Google

121

Wikipedia [?]

1

Stellar Wind (code name)

393

2

281

3

Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders

269

4

267

5

241

6

Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"

225

7

Rope (data structure)

208

8

206

9

Main Core database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security

206

10

Utah Data Center

154

Blogs [?]

1

The Facebook experiment has failed

594

2

Apple Literally Stole my Thunder

486

3

Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us

400

4

Startup Investing Trends

367

5

278

6

I Knew Snowden. And Hes Not The Story

234

7

The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse

225

8

Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer

206

9

The PRISM Details Matter

201

10

Pay No Attention to the Bloody Corpse in the Bathroom

187

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Unsure if I understand TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

73

2

[Stack Overflow]Design a function f, such that f(f(n)) == -n

44

3

Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET

41

4

Vim and Ctags tips and tricks

35

5

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?

34

6

How does database indexing work?

19

7

What is your best programmer joke?

8

8

C# ternary operator is twice as slow as an if-else block?

8

9

Why is the C++ STL so heavily based on templates and not interfaces?

7

10

Unsure if I understand TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy

6

Substack [?]