top 50% 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

Toxic workplace, what do I do?

http://pastebin.com/0cUnah3Q

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 121 comments

Facebook Denies Giving NSA Direct Access To Its Servers

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/06/06/facebook-denies-giving-nsa-direct-access-to-its-servers/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 20 comments

Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/underwater_archaeologist_franck_goddio_finds_1600-year-old_city_that_vanished_1200_years_ago_25008.asp

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 16 comments

If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.com, now is the time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5833621

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 129 comments

How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 86 comments

Machine Learning Cheat Sheet for scikit-learn

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.ca/2013/01/machine-learning-cheat-sheet-for-scikit.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

Petition to impeach Judge Roger Vinson for authorizing NSA Verizon surveillance

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/impeach-federal-judge-roger-vinson-authorizing-warrantless-nsa-surveillance-millions-americans-phone/sKFwyNP8

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal

http://nojhan.github.io/colout/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 40 comments

There Was a Time before Mathematica

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time-before-mathematica/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

Sean Parker's Wedding Defense

http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/sean-parker-wedding-defense/

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 67 comments

John Gruber and friends launch Vesper note capture app

http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/06/daring-fireballs-john-gruber-and-friends-launch-vesper-note-capture-app/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 106 comments

How to handle Hacker News feedback on your beloved app

http://hrishimittal.com/post/52291881111/how-to-handle-hacker-news-feedback-on-your-beloved-app

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format

https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md

13 years ago

★ 2.6k Apache-2.0
86 upvotes – 18 comments

Writing Performance Sensitive OCaml Code

http://janestreet.github.io/ocaml-perf-notes.html

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

Uses of Tmux Explained

http://www.slideshare.net/spolu1/uses-of-tmux-explained

13 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Four-star general in eye of U.S. cyber storm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/26/us-cybersecurity-nsa-alexander-idUSBRE94P06S20130526

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Accumulo: NSA's Apache-licensed BigTable-based key-value store

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 5 comments

Understanding the most beautiful equation in Mathematics

http://functionspace.org/articles/6/Understanding-the-most-beautiful-equation-in-Mathematics

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

A conversation with the Go team

http://blog.golang.org/a-conversation-with-the-go-team

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Branding: Google Visual Assets Guidelines

http://abduzeedo.com/branding-google-visual-assets-guidelines

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 4 comments
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