top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-06-06

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans

13 years ago

1227 upvotes – 444 comments

US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

13 years ago

997 upvotes – 385 comments

Are coders worth it?

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AeonMagazineEssays+%28Aeon+Magazine+Essays%29

13 years ago

730 upvotes – 305 comments

The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/06/the-nsa-surveillance-story-reinforces-why-an-entity-like-wikileaks-is-so-important/

13 years ago

683 upvotes – 65 comments

Donate to the EFF

https://supporters.eff.org/donate?hn

13 years ago

548 upvotes – 35 comments

U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-logs-of-business-calls.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=US_UIS_20130606

13 years ago

496 upvotes – 108 comments

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/

13 years ago

474 upvotes – 117 comments

President Obama’s Dragnet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 139 comments

Stellar Wind (code name)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind_(code_name)

13 years ago

404 upvotes – 167 comments

NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/20/nsa-chief-denies-wireds-domestic-spying-story-fourteen-times-in-congressional-hearing/

13 years ago

366 upvotes – 55 comments

Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it

http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/06/06/sen-mark-udall-i-knew-the-nsa-was-spying-did-everything-but-leak-classified-information-to-stop-it/97025/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

13 years ago

292 upvotes – 48 comments

Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake

http://blog.etanzapinsky.com/2013/06/06/snapchat-youve-made-a-huge-mistake/

13 years ago

260 upvotes – 121 comments

Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830219

13 years ago

212 upvotes – 121 comments

Google, Apple and Facebook Deny Participating In Alleged NSA “PRISM” Program

http://marketingland.com/google-apple-facebook-deny-nsa-prism-program-47323

13 years ago

201 upvotes – 100 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831208

13 years ago

197 upvotes – 168 comments

The doctors give me 30 days to live, each post is potentially my last

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Funcondamne.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F52052034209%2Fjour-1

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 115 comments

Welcome to Echelon 2.0

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/06/welcome-to-echelon-20.html

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 52 comments

Hetzner Servers Compromised

http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Security_Issue/en

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 130 comments

Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorrectly

http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 126 comments

The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest

http://thomasbacklund.com/

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 80 comments
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