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1. Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us (medium.com/surveillance-state)
407 points by mh_ on June 29, 2013 | 218 comments
2. 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand (extremetech.com)
386 points by evo_9 on June 29, 2013 | 121 comments
3. NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (washingtonpost.com)
334 points by hermanywong on June 29, 2013 | 86 comments
4. U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks (yahoo.com)
317 points by 1337biz on June 29, 2013 | 123 comments
5. Papers and essays that every programmer should be aware of (projectmona.com)
219 points by sbspalding on June 29, 2013 | 50 comments
6. Freedom: The Big American Lie (faz.net)
169 points by Riesling on June 29, 2013 | 105 comments
7. Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools (github.com/dunxrion)
116 points by adriancooney on June 29, 2013 | 24 comments
8. Anatomy of a Compiler Bug (mikeash.com)
112 points by nealyoung on June 29, 2013 | 20 comments
9. A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur (bazqux.com)
112 points by Rickasaurus on June 29, 2013 | 46 comments
10. What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter (newyorker.com)
111 points by vinhnx on June 29, 2013 | 21 comments
11. “Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson (leanpub.com)
100 points by mark_l_watson on June 29, 2013 | 41 comments
12. The Future of Computing - An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto (fredwu.me)
94 points by fredwu on June 29, 2013 | 25 comments
13. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java [video] (marakana.com)
93 points by javinpaul on June 29, 2013 | 86 comments
14. Large-scale quantum chip validated (usc.edu)
87 points by scotty79 on June 29, 2013 | 36 comments
15. Ask HN: What is your experience making a free service completely paid?
87 points by tluyben2 on June 29, 2013 | 42 comments
16. Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student (timesdispatch.com)
80 points by harold on June 29, 2013 | 43 comments
17. License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers (cryptogon.com)
80 points by joshuaellinger on June 29, 2013 | 47 comments
18. Python-Based Tools for the Space Science Community (lanl.gov)
76 points by neokya on June 29, 2013 | 28 comments
19. Free Speech Zone (wikipedia.org)
70 points by scrrr on June 29, 2013 | 22 comments
20. Wi-Vi: See Through Walls with Wi-Fi Signals (csail.mit.edu)
68 points by WestCoastJustin on June 29, 2013 | 22 comments
21. Hollywood’s role in shaping public views on mass surveillance (slashgeek.net)
64 points by pavs on June 29, 2013 | 30 comments
22. NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again (nytimes.com)
64 points by GabrielF00 on June 29, 2013 | 68 comments
23. The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out (nytimes.com)
61 points by wallflower on June 29, 2013 | 94 comments
24. How Aziz Ansari Tests Jokes With Analytics (fastcolabs.com)
57 points by mankins on June 29, 2013 | 12 comments
25. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (1991) (eff.org)
57 points by 6a68 on June 29, 2013 | 11 comments
26. How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on (extremetech.com)
54 points by michmaz on June 29, 2013 | 15 comments
27. The 10 Megabyte Manifesto (10mbmanifesto.neocities.org)
54 points by daturkel on June 29, 2013 | 37 comments
28. Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time (techcrunch.com)
52 points by Libertatea on June 29, 2013 | 10 comments
29. A Difficult Month - Post Mortem (iron.io)
57 points by rubikscube on June 29, 2013 | 5 comments
30. How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins (arstechnica.com)
52 points by sk2code on June 29, 2013 | 51 comments

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