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The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2013

We track 859 stories from June 2013, averaging 235 points each. washingtonpost.com was the most linked source, with 20 stories. Together they drew 80,836 comments.

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This is a web page justinjackson.ca · mijustin · 20 Jun 2013
1.4k pts 420 comments
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NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor blog.sfgate.com · gridscomputing · 10 Jun 2013
1.3k pts 327 comments
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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance guardian.co.uk · grey-area · 9 Jun 2013
1.3k pts 293 comments
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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans eff.org · FlemishBeeCycle · 6 Jun 2013
1.2k pts 444 comments
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Project Loon google.com · sabalaba · 15 Jun 2013
1.1k pts 286 comments
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What is Happening in Istanbul? defnesumanblogs.com · bencevans · 2 Jun 2013
1k pts 485 comments
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US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program washingtonpost.com · donohoe · 6 Jun 2013
997 pts 385 comments
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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants news.cnet.com · declan · 15 Jun 2013
834 pts 389 comments
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Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum? washingtonpost.com · Libertatea · 10 Jun 2013
827 pts 341 comments
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Cowards uncrunched.com · kevinwmerritt · 8 Jun 2013
793 pts 225 comments
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Ultimate Tic Tac Toe mathwithbaddrawings.com · sid6376 · 18 Jun 2013
786 pts 123 comments
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Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors eff.org · teawithcarl · 27 Jun 2013
754 pts 36 comments
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U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage washingtonpost.com · o0-0o · 21 Jun 2013
749 pts 346 comments
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Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden petitions.whitehouse.gov · _wk3u · 9 Jun 2013
748 pts 179 comments
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Are coders worth it? aeonmagazine.com · Libertatea · 6 Jun 2013
730 pts 305 comments
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Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef gq.com · Mithrandir · 4 Jun 2013
728 pts 101 comments
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Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police abclocal.go.com · ajg1977 · 1 Jun 2013
726 pts 288 comments
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Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data googleblog.blogspot.com · Lightning · 11 Jun 2013
717 pts 182 comments
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Larry Page addresses PRISM googleblog.blogspot.com · raldi · 7 Jun 2013
715 pts 441 comments
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Hexagonal grids for games redblobgames.com · ayx · 2 Jun 2013
709 pts 69 comments
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Making the web fun again neocities.org · kyledrake · 28 Jun 2013
706 pts 232 comments
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The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important gigaom.com · cdooh · 6 Jun 2013
683 pts 65 comments
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Abandoned island in the middle of NYC backspac.es · zmitri · 24 Jun 2013
675 pts 108 comments
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Mac Pro apple.com · salimmadjd · 10 Jun 2013
664 pts 500 comments
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HTML5 Genetic Cars rednuht.org · jmduke · 25 Jun 2013
664 pts 169 comments
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iOS 7 mattgemmell.com · llambda · 12 Jun 2013
648 pts 278 comments
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Seriously.js seriouslyjs.org · Aissen · 5 Jun 2013
643 pts 181 comments
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The Strange Case of Barrett Brown thenation.com · dlss · 27 Jun 2013
643 pts 177 comments
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German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages translate.google.com · Navarr · 11 Jun 2013
642 pts 246 comments
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A Great Response to a Cease and Desist Letter abovethelaw.com · shawndumas · 19 Jun 2013
640 pts 167 comments
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The Facebook experiment has failed medium.com · mattront · 3 Jun 2013
612 pts 284 comments
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Pandora Paid Over $1,300 for 1 Million Plays theunderstatement.com · cgilmer · 26 Jun 2013
599 pts 209 comments
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Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign sub.garrytan.com · kirillzubovsky · 24 Jun 2013
596 pts 206 comments
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Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) news.cnet.com · bconway · 7 Jun 2013
592 pts 299 comments
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Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry? linkedin.com · _wk3u · 10 Jun 2013
592 pts 277 comments
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Rails 4.0: Final version released weblog.rubyonrails.org · thibaut_barrere · 25 Jun 2013
591 pts 151 comments
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Edward Snowden Q&A guardian.co.uk · sethbannon · 17 Jun 2013
588 pts 299 comments
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Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims theatlantic.com · emingo · 18 Jun 2013
580 pts 71 comments
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In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things ahmetalpbalkan.com · philk10 · 12 Jun 2013
567 pts 269 comments
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Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government nytimes.com · Libertatea · 12 Jun 2013
567 pts 98 comments
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Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go andrewkelley.me · darkf · 7 Jun 2013
560 pts 96 comments
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The Criminal N.S.A. nytimes.com · guelo · 28 Jun 2013
552 pts 106 comments
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Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle? mailman.stanford.edu · ot · 9 Jun 2013
551 pts 82 comments
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Donate to the EFF supporters.eff.org · il · 6 Jun 2013
548 pts 35 comments
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A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com · NeekGerd · 29 Jun 2013
544 pts 234 comments
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Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. fr.slideshare.net · EmilandDC · 11 Jun 2013
543 pts 76 comments
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Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance jonathanturley.org · mtgx · 13 Jun 2013
540 pts 126 comments
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The Internet Is a Surveillance State schneier.com · gits1225 · 7 Jun 2013
528 pts 115 comments
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An Apology to my European IT Team fredlybrand.com · flybrand · 24 Jun 2013
528 pts 92 comments
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Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail motherboard.vice.com · Libertatea · 25 Jun 2013
527 pts 354 comments
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Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden correntewire.com · teawithcarl · 16 Jun 2013
527 pts 302 comments
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The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun nabeelqu.com · nqureshi · 11 Jun 2013
518 pts 281 comments
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Apple Literally Stole my Thunder medium.com · alariccole · 10 Jun 2013
509 pts 197 comments
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Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense sun-sentinel.com · pain_perdu · 13 Jun 2013
506 pts 126 comments
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Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch StopWatching.Us techcrunch.com · rhufnagel · 12 Jun 2013
503 pts 86 comments
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal nytimes.com · Esifer · 20 Jun 2013
502 pts 270 comments
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Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU cs.jhu.edu · tchalla · 12 Jun 2013
500 pts 209 comments
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U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls nytimes.com · zt · 6 Jun 2013
496 pts 108 comments
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My Startup has 30 Days to Live mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com · hidingmyname · 25 Jun 2013
490 pts 226 comments
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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes bbc.co.uk · akandiah · 4 Jun 2013
486 pts 261 comments

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