top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-07

Larry Page addresses PRISM

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html

13 years ago

715 upvotes – 441 comments

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

13 years ago

592 upvotes – 299 comments

Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go

http://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

13 years ago

560 upvotes – 96 comments

The Internet Is a Surveillance State

https://www.schneier.com/essay-418.html

13 years ago

528 upvotes – 115 comments

What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/what-we-dont-know-about-spying-on-citizens-scarier-than-what-we-know/276607/

13 years ago

460 upvotes – 188 comments

Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631

13 years ago

412 upvotes – 282 comments

Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/google-tried-to-resist-fbi-requests-for-data-but-the-fbi-took-it-anyway/

13 years ago

341 upvotes – 81 comments

Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001)

http://stallman.org/millions.html

13 years ago

338 upvotes – 119 comments

Burner Phone

https://www.burnerphone.us/

13 years ago

317 upvotes – 222 comments

NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324299104578529112289298922?mg=reno64-wsj.html?dsk=y

13 years ago

315 upvotes – 9 comments

Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists

http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-hacker-deric-lostutter-raided-by-fbi-2013-6

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 75 comments

Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/is_this_who_runs_prism.php

13 years ago

278 upvotes – 155 comments

Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X

http://shortcatapp.com/

13 years ago

277 upvotes – 100 comments

Keep the NSA out of WebRTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842008

13 years ago

254 upvotes – 17 comments

AngularJS Learning Resources

https://github.com/jmcunningham/AngularJS-Learning

13 years ago

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253 upvotes – 42 comments

How to Leak to the Press

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/listen-up-future-deep-throats-this-is-how-to-leak-to-the-press-today/

13 years ago

236 upvotes – 100 comments

The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email Over 180 Days Old

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read-your-email-2013-6

13 years ago

234 upvotes – 49 comments

The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal

http://influencehacks.com/an-important-point-about-the-nsa-surveillance-scandal

13 years ago

232 upvotes – 13 comments

Yandex Islands

http://beta.yandex.com/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 71 comments

NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/06/nsa-chief-two-weeks-ago-were-the-only-ones-not-spying-on-the-american-people/

13 years ago

219 upvotes – 30 comments

White House admits it has 'access' to Facebook, Google

http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/53475/white-house-admits-it-has-access-facebook-google

13 years ago

210 upvotes – 88 comments

Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process."

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/05/02/wikileaks-founder-facebook-is-the-most-appalling-spy-machine-that-has-ever-been-invented/

13 years ago

198 upvotes – 84 comments

Google, Facebook, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/google-facebook-apple-deny-participation-in-nsa-prism-program/

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 30 comments

How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?

http://bayesianbiologist.com/2013/06/06/how-likely-is-the-nsa-prism-program-to-catch-a-terrorist/

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 61 comments

Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/business/media/anti-surveillance-activist-is-at-center-of-new-leak.html

13 years ago

181 upvotes – 74 comments

When NSLs have been challenged in court, the government has withdrawn

https://www.aclunc.org/issues/government_surveillance/national_security_letters.shtml

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 28 comments

Space Invaders 404

http://www.masswerk.at/404

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 68 comments

Palantir Denies Its 'Prism' Software Is The NSA's 'PRISM' Surveillance System

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup-palantir-denies-its-prism-software-is-the-nsas-prism-surveillance-system/

13 years ago

172 upvotes – 38 comments

Anonymous releases NSA documents

http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf

13 years ago

166 upvotes – 18 comments

Facts about Wayland vs X

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_wayland_situation&num=1

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 127 comments

Utah Data Center

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

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 33 comments

U.S. Government: Reports About PRISM Contain “Numerous Inaccuracies”

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/u-s-government-reports-about-prism-contain-numerous-inaccuracies/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 29 comments

Yours in distress, Alan

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/yours-in-distress-alan.html

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: arkOS - Securely self-hosting your data

https://ark-os.org

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 42 comments

Obama administration defends massive phone record collection

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/07/us-usa-wiretaps-verizon-idUSBRE95502920130607

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 5 comments

FOIA the PRISM tech stack

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foia_request_form.shtml

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 24 comments

They Acquire, Acquire, Acquire While We Build, Build, Build

https://www.zoho.com/general/blog/they-acquire-acquire-acquire-while-we-build-build-build.html

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 72 comments

Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-obama-said-on-nsa-controversy/?mod=e2tw

13 years ago

140 upvotes – 166 comments

New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line

http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245566/245668/www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 31 comments

.io domains down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838670

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 94 comments

Google, Apple and Facebook Outright Deny They’re Helping the NSA Mine Data

http://allthingsd.com/20130606/google-and-apple-outright-deny-theyre-helping-the-nsa-mine-data/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 14 comments

A better git log

https://coderwall.com/p/euwpig

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 57 comments

FreeBSD 8.4 is now available

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.4R/relnotes-detailed.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 38 comments

Everything you need to know about the NSA’s phone records scandal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nsa-scandal/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 6 comments

By the numbers: The NSA's super-secret spy program, PRISM

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/06/06/by_the_numbers_the_nsas_super_secret_spy_program_prism

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 11 comments

Hacker News Coverage of the NSA Stories (IMG)

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/hacker-news-coverage-of-the-nsa-stories-img

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 47 comments

Intelligence Chief Calls Leaks on U.S. Data Collection ‘Reprehensible’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/intelligence-chief-calls-leaks-on-us-data-collection-reprehensible.html?pagewanted=1

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 40 comments

Government Phone Surveillance for Dummies

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/government-phone-surveillance-for-dummies/276629/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy by putting a decimal in the wrong place

http://o.canada.com/2013/06/06/spain-builds-submarine-70-tons-too-heavy/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 47 comments

“Star Trek Continues”: Fan-made episodes carry on the five-year mission

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/07/_star_trek_continues_fan_made_episodes_carry_on_on_the_five_year_mission.html

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.dni.gov%2Findex.php%2Fnewsroom%2Fpress-releases%2F191-press-releases-2013%2F868-dni-statement-on-recent-unauthorized-disclosures-of-classified-information

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

How Congress unknowingly legalized PRISM in 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/06/how-congress-unknowingly-legalized-prism-in-2007/

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

Twilio Raises A $70M Series D As They Consider An IPO

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/07/twilio-raises-a-70m-series-d-as-they-consider-an-ipo/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

Technical Implications of the NSA's Prism Program

http://lahiri.me/writing/technicalities-of-prism/index.html

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 35 comments

Fun with Prolog: Priceonomics Puzzle

http://dangoldin.com/2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics-puzzle/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Concern grows over GCHQ Prism spying allegations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22813893

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 13 comments

GetClojure: Tons of Searchable Clojure Examples

http://getclojure.org/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 6 comments

Atomic I/O operations

http://lwn.net/Articles/552095/

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 5 comments

A Guide to the New HTML5 Form Input Types

http://sixrevisions.com/html5/new-html5-form-input-types/

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 24 comments

NSA secretly monitoring user activity directly from major tech companies

http://www.marco.org/2013/06/06/nsa-prism

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 6 comments

Crypto-Anarchism Community

https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/117922792264574733046

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 25 comments

NSA's Project SHAMROCK (2005)

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/project_shamroc.html

13 years ago

56 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app

https://cryptonote.org/

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 41 comments
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