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1. NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants (cnet.com)
834 points by declan on June 15, 2013 | 389 comments
2. Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home (thehill.com)
459 points by Libertatea on June 15, 2013 | 141 comments
3. Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video] (eff.org)
295 points by kirillzubovsky on June 15, 2013 | 81 comments
4. Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped (garrytan.com)
258 points by ghosh on June 15, 2013 | 86 comments
5. The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online (msn.com)
256 points by jalanco on June 15, 2013 | 93 comments
6. Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests (fb.com)
238 points by erict15 on June 15, 2013 | 199 comments
7. Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access (googleblog.blogspot.com)
189 points by cleverjake on June 15, 2013 | 50 comments
8. Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure (ap.org)
175 points by brown9-2 on June 15, 2013 | 22 comments
9. NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance (techdirt.com)
168 points by mtgx on June 15, 2013 | 44 comments
10. Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview [video] (thenextweb.com)
158 points by rmason on June 15, 2013 | 25 comments
11. Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle (npr.org)
156 points by dboles99 on June 15, 2013 | 11 comments
12. COINTELPRO (wikipedia.org)
147 points by geekfactor on June 15, 2013 | 38 comments
13. Off-the-Record Messaging – encrypt your instant messages (cypherpunks.ca)
139 points by prajjwal on June 15, 2013 | 33 comments
14. [dupe] 22k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition (whitehouse.gov)
138 points by jenius on June 15, 2013 | 46 comments
15. “Whistleblower welcome in China” (xinhuanet.com)
137 points by teawithcarl on June 15, 2013 | 121 comments
16. Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture (businessweek.com)
123 points by robdoherty2 on June 15, 2013 | 23 comments
17. Scientist Figures Out How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley (core77.com)
122 points by sethbannon on June 15, 2013 | 31 comments
18. Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008) (codinghorror.com)
117 points by prajjwal on June 15, 2013 | 96 comments
19. Senate Staffers Told To Pretend Top Secret Docs Are Not Widely Available On Web (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
114 points by jalanco on June 15, 2013 | 21 comments
20. Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be (facebook.com)
110 points by ferdo on June 15, 2013 | 114 comments
21. General Alexander wearing EFF shirt (twitter.com/eff)
109 points by FredericJ on June 15, 2013 | 40 comments
22. Redbus.in acquired for $138M (nextbigwhat.com)
102 points by Brajeshwar on June 15, 2013 | 9 comments
23. Show HN: C library of generic, reference-counted data structures (theck01.github.io)
91 points by _cxbj on June 15, 2013 | 40 comments
24. Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan (sivers.org)
91 points by revorad on June 15, 2013 | 15 comments
25. Programmable Water (2003) (blikstein.com)
87 points by llambda on June 15, 2013 | 19 comments
26. Show HN: MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka (maildrop.cc)
81 points by mark242 on June 15, 2013 | 32 comments
27. One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective (andrewbrookins.com)
79 points by lauriswtf on June 15, 2013 | 39 comments
28. Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order (npr.org)
80 points by Libertatea on June 15, 2013 | 18 comments
29. Pine Gap (wikipedia.org)
77 points by ra on June 15, 2013 | 8 comments
30. Numba vs. Cython: Take 2 (jakevdp.github.io)
77 points by Bootvis on June 15, 2013 | 12 comments

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