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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

1094

2

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

809

3

Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data

669

4

621

5

German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages

620

6

Edward Snowden Q&A

568

7

In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things

548

8

Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government

548

9

Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance

529

10

Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides.

519

Top Ask HN

1

Favorite mailing lists, IRC channels

74

2

Advice on how to best spend $3,000

72

3

Is it really this easy?

53

4

Shortest path to $1 million?

48

5

Any downsides of programming in Haskell?

47

6

How do you get a PhD required job without a PhD?

38

7

Why are you blocking users from the Tor network?

35

8

Developers' jobs in Europe. Best cover-letter, cv practices.

27

9

What am I going to do with my job?

19

10

Why is every technology book 500-1000 pages

16

Top Show HN

1

I made my Raspberry Pi a secret phone homing server

130

2

Invoice-o-matic a free online invoice tool

118

3

C library of generic, reference-counted data structures

89

4

Stripe for Printing

81

5

MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka

77

6

Binary, a cloud development environment on the iPad

69

7

Echoplexus An OSS alternative to Hipchat, Flowdock, and others

51

8

my hackathon project - free real-time web analytics

30

9

We built a realtime design feedback tool using Node.js

28

10

Sketch interactive Wireframes with pentotype

28

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

European roaming charges will end in 2014

275

4

Sony will allow indie devs to publish their own games on PlayStation 4

234

5

An encrypted message to Edward Snowden

228

6

New OS X uses Windows file sharing by default

172

7

Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance

157

8

Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview [video]

154

9

Apple is finally allowing developers to sell their apps to other developers

144

10

Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar

117

News [?]

1

Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government

548

2

Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home

445

3

Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero

395

4

Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit

349

5

More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor

332

6

A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program

297

7

Does America need a Pirate Party?

275

8

Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented

262

9

NSA revelations only 'the tip of the iceberg,' says Dem lawmaker

243

10

European Parliament Up In Arms Over PRISM

237

Scientific publications [?]

1

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

33

2

Video: Drones, Quadrupeds, Humanoids, and More Robots From ICRA 2013

3

3

NASA Selects 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class

3

4

This Robot Wants to Beat You at Air Hockey

2

5

Quantum algorithm verified - solving linear equations on a quantum computer

2

6

Simple theory may explain dark matter

2

7

Physicists show self-correcting quantum computers are theoretically possible

2

8

Undue industry influences that distort healthcare research

2

9

China Unveils Secret Quantum Communications Experiment

2

10

James Webb Telescope's last backbone component completed

2

Dev Blogs [?]

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CloudFlare, PRISM, and Securing SSL Ciphers

139

2

Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance

96

3

More on Feudal Security

93

4

Introducing the Mozilla Science Lab

85

5

PRISMs Effect on Bitcoin Prices

71

6

How Netflix Deploys Code

10

7

Data Mining for Terrorists (2006)

9

8

A report from pgCon 2013

8

9

Apple Design Awards 2013

8

10

More on Feudal Security

8

Tech blogs [?]

1

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

396

2

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

288

3

FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case

214

4

Spies Without Borders III: Modern Foreign Surveillance - A Legal Perspective

24

5

Jony Ive Put Apple's Marketing Team in Charge of iOS 7 Icon Design

10

6

FISC Opinion and Order Granting EFF's Motion

9

7

Foreign Surveillance Post-9/11: A History of Privacy Erosion

5

8

Multiple New Polls Show Americans Reject Wholesale NSA Domestic Spying

4

9

Landmark Patent Office Ruling Strikes Abstract Software Patent

3

10

Benchmark of the New Macbook Air

2

FAANG+ [?]

1

Apples Commitment to Customer Privacy

139

2

Amazon CloudFront now supports Custom SSL Certificates and Zone Apex

13

3

When Sarcasm Hits Amazon (Read the Reviews)

5

4

Apple Products and EU-wide Consumer Laws

3

5

Video Game Addiction

2

6

A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

2

7

Algorithms Unlocked

2

8

1

9

Apple's Design Manifesto

1

10

PS4 is top of Amazon Video Games Sales Chart

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

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

156

2

New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates

38

3

Blink's Rendering Pipeline

35

4

Hey Hadopi, Youre Breaking The Law.

29

5

AngularJS announces Dart port

21

6

Images: Edward Snowden Modeling Shoot Found

5

7

Tim Cook is a great CEO

3

8

France Disconnects First File-Sharer From the Internet

3

9

Leaked Emails: Launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad

1

10

Google Opposes Russias SOPA as Blocking Legislation Passes First Hurdle

1

Science News [?]

1

Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

100

2

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

67

3

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

9

4

Computer memory can be read with a flash of light

3

5

Biology: The big challenges of big data

2

6

US emissions hit first low since mid-1990s

2

7

Making Babies After Death: It's Possible, But is it Ethical?

2

8

Finally, strong evidence that Tunguska event was caused by meteor

2

9

Scientists mobilize to combat changing animal rights laws

1

10

Experts question strength of chemical weapons case against Syria

1

Social [?]

1

Rally in Hong Kong to Support Edward Snowden

156

2

Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be

106

3

General Alexander wearing EFF shirt

105

4

Rep. Nadler now saying CNET story (NSA recording calls) is not true.

61

5

Glenn Greenwald: "You have no idea what is coming"

32

6

Cop sexually assaults woman then arrests her for protesting

31

7

Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting)

12

8

Candidate Obama debates President Obama on Government Surveillance

12

9

NSA Analyst LinkedIn profile

11

10

UofToronto team hits 3.3m/65sec flight in submission for the Sikorsky Prize

11

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Repository Next

380

2

There's a map for that

291

3

Bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 Assembly

274

4

Retina Mac External display problem

89

5

LinkedIn profiles of people working on #PRISM or affiliated programs

47

6

JavaScript tool that validates your HTML and warns you in the web console

28

7

Tattletale: Send console logs to the server for long-term storage

15

8

UI7Kit: Add one-line to enable iOS7 flat-style in previous versions (iOS5+)

14

9

Testing is not a thing in the iOS and Mac community and that sucks.

13

10

How fucked is SSL?

13

Wikipedia [?]

1

281

2

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

206

3

142

4

73

5

List of government surveillance projects

46

6

CALEA requires telecoms to install surveillance equipment in their datacenters

37

7

Principality of Hutt River

13

8

12

9

Ronald Wayne - Apple co-founder

9

10

8

Blogs [?]

1

Effective Technical Leadership

138

2

We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster

121

3

What Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About UX Design

65

4

Design your focus - Read better, work better, sleep better, X better.

49

5

The Worst Startup Idea

48

6

"How will they make money?" is the wrong question

46

7

The Startup Backlash

37

8

Gittip, Year One

30

9

Outsourcing and Limiting to Core Competencies are Essential

29

10

Getting Real Value Out of An Engineering Education

24

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET

41

2

What is your best programmer joke?

8

3

How does the algorithm to color the song list in iTunes 11 work?

6

4

Fast method to round double to 32bit int explained

3

5

Getting started with Haskell

2

6

There are 4.86×10^15 128-bit GUIDS for every star in the Universe

1

7

I am a front end developer. What language should I learn next?

1

8

Hack everything by simply copying a cookie?

1

9

Limitations of Object Oriented Design

1

10

ImageIO dirty memory is not automatically cleared by iOS

1

Substack [?]