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  • 0 4

    To all freelancers out there: 8 ways to an easy life (transferwise.com)
  • 0 3

    Russia promises legal action over NSA surveillance scandal (rt.com)
  • 5 5

    Programmer Competency Matrix (sijinjoseph.com)
  • 1 6

    How Your Microsoft Points Will Become Dollars/Pounds/Euros/Whatever (kotaku.com)
  • 4 9

    Why Netflix is producing original content (reuters.com)
  • 16 50

    Leaseweb has wiped ALL Megaupload servers. (twitter.com)
  • 0 3

    Google's SoC for Open­Source Development (coolage.in)
  • 4 5

    Most of your A/B tests will fail (jitbit.com)
  • 0 7

    Run-DMC explains Network Partitions in CouchDB (cloudant.com)
  • 13 43

    John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus (youtube.com)
  • 53 53

    Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome (howtogeek.com)
  • 16 31

    Guess You Thought I Was Someone To Mess With (georgiaweidman.com)
  • 6 9

    Https://history.Google.com (history.google.com)
  • 5 5

    Bono predicted, Woz endorsed it (getsoundwave.com)
  • 10 14

    JDK now comes with an expiration date. Unknown what happens when it expires. (oracle.com)
  • 12 9

    Dear Interns (medium.com)
  • 6 15

    BrassReader: a serverless RSS reader (brassreader.com)
  • 8 14

    TWA 800 brought down by ordinance explosions (foxnews.com)
  • 12 8

    I Can Haz Init Script (devo.ps)
  • 26 38

    Large number of bricked PS3 after latest update. (playstation.com)
  • 5 31

    The MetaC Language (maier-komor.de)
  • 2 3

    Stephen Hawking hacked by Syrian Electronic Army (panarabiaenquirer.com)
  • 0 6

    [python] configuration manager with various handlers (emre.github.io)
  • 16 106

    MySQL man pages license change is a bug (mysql.com)
  • 44 126

    DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal (searchenginewatch.com)
  • 4 12

    The Day Matt Cutts Snapped (01100111011001010110010101101011.co.uk)
  • 9 28

    A sustainable start-up (economist.com)
  • 0 3

    An interview with Dan Eden (_dte) (steer.me)
  • 21 57

    Hacker News London meetup, Wednesday 10th July (meetup.com)
  • 20 67

    Lobster, a game programming language (strlen.com)
  • 69 120

    Partial Tesla Model S recall (teslamotors.com)
  • 46 39

    Nuke plants to keep PDP-11 UNTIL 2050 (theregister.co.uk)
  • 20 32

    Genetic Algorithm For (XKCD) Knapsack Problem (kataklinger.com)
  • 47 24

    The real reason to fight nuclear power has nothing to do with health risks (qz.com)
  • 53 42

    Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor (9muses.se)
  • 47 144

    OpenStreetMap is the only global non-US maps service (openstreetmap.org)
  • 12 48

    Build your own Raspberry Pi Espresso Machine hack (zipwhip.com)
  • 52 88

    NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers (nvidia.com)
  • 118 110

    Ask HN: Passive income ideas?
  • 50 57

    Show HN: Radio - My first Mac app (radioformac.com)
  • 74 91

    On Scala (dehora.net)
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    Core JavaScript Engineers: build something worth talking about at Disqus (disqus.com)
  • 48 136

    Show HN: Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (ken-soft.com)
  • 8 75

    How cash secretly rules surveillance policy (salon.com)
  • 40 39

    Low batteries on your Tesla? Swap ‘em out (sfgate.com)
  • 9 12

    The End of Google+ Games (insidesocialgames.com)
  • 25 58

    Getting Docker to run on Linode (stinemat.es)
  • 5 44

    NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge (nasa.gov)
  • 5 28

    Internationalizing 99designs (99designs.com)
  • 16 53

    Impending National Distraction, aka Public Relations 101 (medium.com)
  • 32 118

    Bank of America whistle-blower: “We were told to lie” (salon.com)
  • 62 92

    Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33 (rollingstone.com)
  • 34 20

    Show HN: BoundIt CAPTCHA: highlight objects in photos to prove you're human (boundit.co)
  • 77 44

    The JVM situation (groups.google.com)
  • 4 18

    Why You Don’t Invite Your Mother to the Office (medium.com)
  • 2 12

    Network effects are not everthing (nirandfar.com)
  • 74 247

    Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (spotify.com)
  • 2 9

    Elon Musk announces secret Model S battery swap feature. (twitter.com)
  • 76 129

    NSA Disruption of Stock Exchange Bomb Plot Disputed (wired.com)
  • 173 382

    MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (mariadb.org)
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    Help Scale Rescale (YC W12)
  • 2 20

    Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage (mit.edu)
  • 0 7

    Bugfixes as therapy (zachholman.com)
  • 160 376

    Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment (washingtonpost.com)
  • 44 67

    NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking (techdirt.com)
  • 119 153

    NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden (forbes.com)
  • 67 143

    TypeScript 0.9 released (msdn.com)
  • 3 120

    CallDay.org by StopWatchingUs: Call your representatives about NSA surveillance (callday.org)
  • 32 50

    ASCII is 50 years old (the60sat50.blogspot.fr)
  • 0 7

    The California Public Records Act is threatened by stealth amendments (firearmspolicy.org)
  • 14 28

    Introduction to Parallel Python with IPCluster and Wakari (wakari.io)
  • 74 94

    Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad (tamper.io)
  • 87 213

    Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war? (cnn.com)
  • 53 34

    Bicycle helmets haven't changed since their introduction (bicycling.com)
  • 12 44

    Discrete Optimization course begins today (coursera.org)
  • 46 19

    Poll: Would it be OK for the NSA to spy if the code was publicly available?
  • 40 41

    New Dropbox Homepage (dropbox.com)
  • 2 16

    Using Ember.js and Stripe Checkout (hawkins.io)
  • 1 12

    Stack - Rack for PHP (stackphp.com)
  • 31 83

    Functional JavaScript: Closure (fogus.me)
  • 63 139

    Show HN: We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music (getsoundbrush.com)
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    Are you ready to help manage and grow a community of hackers?
  • 3 14

    Privacy, Search Engines, and Government Monitoring (blekko.com)
  • 4 5

    The Hacker News Moves Leaderboard (and the first Moves web app) (proves.me)
  • 0 13

    How Balanced Built Its New Search System Using Ember.js (balancedpayments.com)
  • 2 6

    Facebook Is Almost a Decade Old and Still Doesn’t Get the Advertising Game (betabeat.com)
  • 4 7

    Pilot SSH is now available on Android (pilotssh.com)
  • 67 532

    Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims (theatlantic.com)
  • 2 4

    Turn mailing list sign-ups immediately into paying customers (42insights.com)
  • 12 66

    Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change (cringely.com)
  • 116 126

    Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account (ripton.net)
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    Facebook doesn't deliberately block Tor connections. (torproject.org)
  • 10 45

    E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress (2009) (nytimes.com)
  • 29 81

    DjangoAdmin 2.0 - rewrite of django.contrib.admin (github.com)
  • 3 19

    Racket v5.3.5 (racket-lang.org)
  • 53 141

    Realm of Racket (nostarch.com)
  • 47 243

    Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately (torproject.org)
  • 4 6

    Inside HyperLevelDB (hackingdistributed.com)
  • 26 84

    Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M (techcrunch.com)
  • 27 46

    The Opa Framework for JavaScript (opalang.org)
  • 1 5

    Is your movie and music preference related? (variogr.am)
  • 60 32

    Hacker School Soylent (cookingfor20.com)
  • 186 393

    The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies (aclu.org)
  • 68 161

    'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf] (ssrn.com)
  • 0 6

    Free ebook on Open Access | The MIT Press by Peter Suber (mit.edu)
  • 9 12

    Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google (developers.google.com)
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    Hacker School Soylent (cookingfor20.com)
  • 6 19

    How Spreedly Raised $300K in 10 Days on AngelList (exitevent.com)
  • 20 50

    Whistleblowers are not traitors (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • 100 72

    Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
  • 44 39

    Rsync.net Warrant Canary (2006) (rsync.net)
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    Hacker News is written by the son of a former NSA Chief Scientist (wikipedia.org)
  • 4 9

    Suspicion Confirmed: Google Has It Out for Small Businesses (searchenginewatch.com)
  • 3 21

    Geologists find fault system that could be first signs of future supercontinent (wired.co.uk)
  • 116 129

    Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee (c-spanvideo.org)
  • 48 97

    A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin (individualpubs.co.uk)
  • 7 17

    Come support the Practical Flask book on Kickstarter (robert.io)
  • 16 48

    Google's VP9 web video codec enabled by default in upcoming Chrome (h-online.com)
  • 29 51

    FiftyThree (cdixon.org)
  • 118 199

    Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud (linuxjournal.com)
  • 44 76

    Estimated Cost to Store All US Phone Calls Made in a Year (docs.google.com)
  • 88 271

    Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata (schneier.com)
  • 65 59

    The Mac Pro from an audio pros perspective (createdigitalmusic.com)
  • 119 262

    Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network (arabcrunch.com)
  • 61 55

    1984, Hungarian Edition (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
  • 10 81

    Sprouts Explained (maths.org)
  • 1 7

    Here's How Often Google and Facebook Say Yes to Government Snoops (motherjones.com)
  • 112 725

    Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (mathwithbaddrawings.com)
  • 79 239

    Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them (mynsarecords.com)
  • 1 10

    Fear And Loathing OF Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
  • 9 44

    A weekly assemblage of startup founders in Palo Alto (whynotcombinator.com)
  • 137 112

    Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness (ieet.org)
  • 1 21

    PRISM: Capturing the unencrypted network traffic of Google et al. (joshcuppett.com)
  • 1 13

    Snowden denies allegations of spying for China (nytimes.com)
  • 6 18

    Universities that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in ratings (washingtonpost.com)
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    Watsi (YC W13) is looking for a front-end developer to spread the health
  • 91 117

    A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry (technologyreview.com)
  • 46 240

    Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access (uncrunched.com)
  • 66 151

    Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests (techcrunch.com)
  • 26 9

    What iOS7 should look like (tristanedwards.me)
  • 50 28

    Are modern games easier or simply designed better? (venturebeat.com)
  • 59 82

    Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers (wsj.com)
  • 248 296

    Buying the new MacBook Air (virtualpants.com)
  • 10 13

    Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy (apple.com)
  • 72 139

    Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio (bbc.co.uk)
  • 17 130

    LLVM 3.3 Released (llvm.org)
  • 1 20

    Duolingo Helps Student to Propose to His American Girlfriend (duolingo.com)
  • 61 60

    Do You Have A Right to Remain Silent? Thoughts on Salinas v. Texas (volokh.com)
  • 14 45

    'NSA should come clean about domestic spying': NYC Police Commissioner (nypost.com)
  • 12 14

    America's Leading Metros for Venture Capital (theatlanticcities.com)
  • 7 79

    Deep Learning With Commodity Off-The-Shelf High Performance Computing [pdf] (stanford.edu)
  • 129 202

    Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists (marco.org)
  • 0 5

    Being Called a Traitor by Cheney Is the Highest Honor You Can Give an American (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 4 35

    Hostage situation in progress on CalTrain (twitter.com)
  • 0 4

    Getting Leads - Lessons learned the hard way (viralsweep.com)