The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2013

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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