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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor

1233

2

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance

1222

3

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

1191

4

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

962

5

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

803

6

772

7

Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

721

8

Are coders worth it?

713

9

Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef

712

10

Larry Page addresses PRISM

682

Top Ask HN

1

Alternatives to HN

187

2

How can I see top HN posts Not about NSA/PRISM?

44

3

Have you ever helped a company build a back-door?

35

4

I'm 26 and would like to make 100k/yearly before I'm 30. How do I do it?

30

5

what projects are you working on?

30

6

Countries easy to emigrate to, with tech opportunities?

29

7

Mobile app developers making 100k+ on your app(s), how did you do it?

28

8

Free trip to Angola. Why is nobody interested in this offer?

19

9

Anyone Else Tired of All The Leak and 'PRISM' Stories?

19

10

As a Big Data engineer, how do I avoid helping governments spy on us?

17

Top Show HN

1

Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

254

2

Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app

180

3

arkOS - Securely self-hosting your data

149

4

Send snail mail from the web

111

5

A high performance airplane for the price of a luxury car

89

6

Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format

82

7

Too busy for online dating? Try Wednesday Night

69

8

WhatsNew – Show your users new features since their last visit

51

9

CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app

50

10

Popline An HTML5 Rich Text Editor Toolbar

50

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

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

331

2

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

288

3

How to Leak to the Press

228

4

The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

195

5

Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process."

192

6

Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM

183

7

Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011)

170

8

U.S. Government: Reports About PRISM Contain “Numerous Inaccuracies”

151

9

Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth AboutParticipation

126

10

How $96,000 can buy you a top 10 ranking in the U.S. app store

85

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. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls

476

4

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

471

5

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

456

6

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

449

7

President Obamas Dragnet

440

8

The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror

420

9

I'm Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum

393

10

NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012)

354

Scientific publications [?]

1

Rover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable

73

2

Miniature Quadruped Robot Is Blazingly Fast

39

3

Precise measurements test QED, constrain possible fifth fundamental force

17

4

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

5

5

Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home (w/ Video)

4

6

Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string

4

7

Asteroid to Fly Within Moon's Orbit Tomorrow: Watch It Live Today

3

8

An amazing deep-field view of Centaurus A by an Amateur Astrophotographer

3

9

Helicopter takes to the skies with the power of thought

3

10

Earth Living is Tough for Astronaut Used to Space

2

Dev Blogs [?]

1

The Internet Is a Surveillance State

517

2

Send payouts with Stripe

285

3

Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers

260

4

Facts about Wayland vs X

155

5

The Eternal Value of Privacy (2006)

91

6

Atomic I/O operations

60

7

NSA's Project SHAMROCK (2005)

52

8

Barbara Liskov: The Power of Abstraction [video]

50

9

Send payouts with Stripe

16

10

A warning on debian-multimedia.org

9

Tech blogs [?]

1

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

1191

2

430

3

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

311

4

Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

118

5

John Gruber and friends launch Vesper note capture app

94

6

Internet Surveillance and Free Speech: the United Nations Makes the Connection

85

7

Singaporean Websites Must Pay To Mention Singapore And Not Mention Gay People

57

8

Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles

53

9

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying

10

10

Ways You Can Help The Electronic Frontier Foundation

10

FAANG+ [?]

1

641

2

283

3

WWDC 2013 Keynote

172

4

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

31

5

8

6

Modern Design at Microsoft

8

7

Designed by Apple

8

8

7

9

Amazon : More Prime Instant Video exclusives for kids

5

10

Apple introduces iTunes Radio

4

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor

40

2

ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor

32

3

Overlapping phrases used in Page and Zuckerberg's comments

9

4

Pirate Bay Founder Now Wanted by Denmark

9

5

Police Visit Pirate Bay Proxy Owners Home Demanding a Shutdown

6

6

Warner Bros: We’re Fining File-Sharers Who Use Non Six-Strike ISPs

6

7

87 Months in Prison for Copyright Infringement: Fair Sentence or Utter Madness?

6

8

Prisoner's Dilemma (with visible source code) Tournament

4

9

Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM

2

10

GAE Datastore, MySQL InnoDB and Neo4j Request time comparison project

2

Science News [?]

1

Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts

39

2

Amount of dust blown across the Western U.S. is increasing

6

3

For 40 Years This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

6

4

Temporal cloak erases data from history

4

5

The Wearable, Implantable, Personalized Future of Medicine

2

6

You wait ages for number theory results, then two come at once

2

7

Tensions grow as data-mining discussions fall apart

2

8

Model helicopter steered by power of thought alone

2

9

Geneticists push for global data-sharing

2

10

Old Mars rover digs up evidence for drinkable water

1

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

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

113

5

Flood Washington with 1984

73

6

PRISM: "Collection directly from the servers"

69

7

Greenwald has "highly detailed technical NSA materials on how they eavesdrop"

67

8

I learned via Facebook I was laid off today

22

9

YouTube is down. Error 502 (Server Error)1

20

10

All top posts on Hacker News talk about the same thing

18

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers

395

2

AngularJS Learning Resources

246

3

Encrypt your Google chats and make the NSA sad

235

4

Python Flask NSA Backdoor

161

5

Using Docker as a Open Stack Nova hypervisor

45

6

Dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in lt 100 lines of Bash

34

7

Gem install nsa_panel to add an NSA backdoor to your webapp

19

8

Did you notice Github's Spamming?

8

9

Dockerui - A web interface for docker

8

10

Backbone Debugger

8

Wikipedia [?]

1

Stellar Wind (code name)

393

2

Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders

269

3

267

4

241

5

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

225

6

Rope (data structure)

208

7

Utah Data Center

154

8

United States incarceration rate

148

9

Accumulo: NSA's Apache-licensed BigTable-based key-value store

76

10

51

Blogs [?]

1

Apple Literally Stole my Thunder

486

2

The PRISM Details Matter

201

3

Facebook is just fine

136

4

Why Twitters Bootstrap is Important

69

5

Create Something Every Day

55

6

Why Java is still relevant

45

7

Why aren't more companies like Amazon?

35

8

Misogyny and the Marketing Chick

16

9

What happened with iOS7?

12

10

Emails are the new landing pages

10

Stackoverflow [?]

1

When to use Dublin Core 'references' and when 'isReferencedBy'

2

2

Node.js / express.js - How does app.router work?

2

3

How do I fix merge conflicts in Git?

1

4

Java client vs Java server security, what's the difference?

1

5

Little known Java feature: Joint union in type parameter

1

6

How to calculate 2^n-1 efficiently without overflow?

1

7

Cooperative Energy defend password security by waving Data Protection Act

1

8

Why #define TRUE (1==1) in a C boolean macro instead of simply as 1?

1

9

How can a time function exist in functional programming?

1

Substack [?]