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, 94 per story on average.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
mailman.stanford.edu · ot · 9 Jun 2013
551 pts
82 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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