top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-09

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

13 years ago

1254 upvotes – 293 comments

Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

13 years ago

748 upvotes – 179 comments

Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?

https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008815.html

13 years ago

551 upvotes – 82 comments

Tor and HTTPS

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

13 years ago

430 upvotes – 127 comments

How three pacifists were convicted as terrorists

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-7

13 years ago

403 upvotes – 163 comments

Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047

13 years ago

350 upvotes – 133 comments

People with nothing to hide

http://twitter.com/_nothingtohide

13 years ago

322 upvotes – 253 comments

Joseph Nacchio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

13 years ago

297 upvotes – 47 comments

How well do you know HTML?

http://jakearchibald.github.io/request-quest/

13 years ago

265 upvotes – 88 comments

Room 641A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

13 years ago

248 upvotes – 44 comments

Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/

13 years ago

246 upvotes – 71 comments

Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'

http://www.france24.com/en/20130608-assange-us-rule-law-suffering-calamitous-collapse

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 61 comments

Vagrant: Create and configure portable development environments

http://www.vagrantup.com/

13 years ago

178 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patriot-act-can-access-eu-based-cloud-data/11225

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 25 comments

Don’t Take Your Vitamins

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 172 comments

Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime

http://rt.com/news/singapore-website-protest-bloggers-419/

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 82 comments

What are the implications of NSA surveillance on the average Internet user?

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37076/what-are-the-implications-of-nsa-surveillance-on-the-average-internet-user

13 years ago

157 upvotes – 28 comments

ECHELON was used for industrial espionage (European Commission report)

http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm#10

13 years ago

151 upvotes – 66 comments

United States incarceration rate

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

13 years ago

150 upvotes – 95 comments

Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3B

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000850934&fid=1725

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 59 comments

What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove?

http://mashable.com/2013/06/08/china-hack-nsa/

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/06/08/linux-performance-analysis-and-tools/

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

Feynman vs. The Abacus

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 33 comments

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls (2006)

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

The Spy Factory

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spy-factory.html

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 6 comments

Thinking of Doing a PhD? Take this simple test

http://blog.prof.so/2013/06/test.html

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

U.S., companies: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-company-officials-internet-surveillance-does-not-indiscriminately-mine-data/2013/06/08/5b3bb234-d07d-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story_1.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 62 comments

WWDC 2013 Expectations

http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/wwdc_2013_expectations

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 84 comments

Pseudo-Random vs. True Random

http://boallen.com/random-numbers.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 47 comments

Lobster today is viewed as a delicacy, but was once reviled

http://sub.garrytan.com/lobster-today-is-viewed-as-a-delicacy-but-it-was-once-so-reviled-that-indentured-servants-refused-to-eat-it

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 74 comments

About a Month at Yahoo

http://bensign.com/about-a-month-at-yahoo

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 53 comments

Nothing to Hide

http://danielsieradski.com/nothing-to-hide/14572

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Is the NSA outsourcing its domestic spying to Israel?

http://geektime.com/2013/06/09/is-the-nsa-outsourcing-its-domestic-spying-to-israel/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

EasyPost (YC S13) Response to PRISM Accusations

http://blog.easypost.com/post/52529794009/easypost-response-to-prism-accusations

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 43 comments
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