top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-12

iOS 7

http://mattgemmell.com/2013/06/12/ios-7/

13 years ago

648 upvotes – 278 comments

In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/8-months-microsoft/

13 years ago

567 upvotes – 269 comments

Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/06/11/in-nsa-leak-case-a-whistle-blower-or-a-criminal/before-prosecuting-snowden-investigate-the-government

13 years ago

567 upvotes – 98 comments

Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch StopWatching.Us

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/stopwatching-us-launch/

13 years ago

503 upvotes – 86 comments

Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU

http://cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/publications/letter-to-the-president.pdf

13 years ago

500 upvotes – 209 comments

We Should All Have Something To Hide

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

13 years ago

438 upvotes – 147 comments

Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/06/why-edward-snowden-is-a-hero.html?mobify=0

13 years ago

410 upvotes – 40 comments

More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/us-usa-security-poll-idUSBRE95B1AF20130612

13 years ago

345 upvotes – 77 comments

Fertile Ground

http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground

13 years ago

326 upvotes – 210 comments

Changes in rankings of smartphone search results

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/changes-in-rankings-of-smartphone_11.html

13 years ago

293 upvotes – 90 comments

Civil Liberties Groups Are Suing the NSA

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/aclu-lawsuit-nsa-analysis/66139/

13 years ago

280 upvotes – 48 comments

AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unleashes-2013jun11.aspx

13 years ago

243 upvotes – 133 comments

Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi

http://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi?view=all

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 30 comments

How the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden

http://www.juancole.com/2013/06/government-whistleblower-snowden.html

13 years ago

233 upvotes – 141 comments

NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/12/nsa_logo_scandal/

13 years ago

231 upvotes – 31 comments

A PRISM-inspired Google Doodle

http://projects.haykranen.nl/google

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 14 comments

Surveillance: A Threat to Democracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/opinion/surveillance-a-threat-to-democracy.html?_r=0

13 years ago

183 upvotes – 70 comments

How An Introvert Learned To Be A Leader

http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/52801371505/how-an-introvert-learned-to-be-a-leader

13 years ago

177 upvotes – 38 comments

All calls in the Netherlands are stored, indexed and searched for keywords

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraaf.nl%2Fbinnenland%2F21642600%2F__Gesprekken_al_jaren_afgetapt__.html

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 53 comments

Apple is finally allowing developers to sell their apps to other developers

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/11/apple-is-finally-allowing-developers-to-sell-their-apps-heres-why-and-how/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 28 comments

Americans Disapprove of Government Surveillance Programs

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx

13 years ago

149 upvotes – 49 comments

CloudFlare, PRISM, and Securing SSL Ciphers

http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers?

13 years ago

148 upvotes – 75 comments

Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/220078

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 98 comments

Submit a Privacy Act Request with the NSA to see what info they have on you

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_privacy_act_request/index.shtml

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 53 comments

The Code You Don't Write

http://improbabletruths.com/the-code-you-dont-write

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

Greenwald: Snowden Has Provided ‘Thousands’ Of Docs, ‘Dozens’ Are Newsworthy

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/greenwald-snowden-knows-he-s-going-to-end

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 71 comments

Shia LaBeouf: phone surveillance whistleblower?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/the-buzz/2013/06/shia-labeouf-blew-early-whistle-on-phone-surveillance.html

13 years ago

132 upvotes – 16 comments

Edit your code in the cloud with bitbucket

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/05/14/edit-your-code-in-the-cloud-with-bitbucket/

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

Mozilla Persona and Surveillance

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/52729477874

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 56 comments

Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01376.html

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 19 comments

Booz Allen fires leaker Snowden

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/companies/snowden-booz-allen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 73 comments

NSA surveillance retrospective: AT&T, Verizon never denied it

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillance-retrospective-at-t-verizon-never-denied-it/

13 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Distributed data structures with Coq

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/coq/2013/06/11/distributed-data-structures.html

13 years ago

97 upvotes – 24 comments

Retina Mac External display problem

https://github.com/oyiptong/retinadisplayproblem

13 years ago

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96 upvotes – 39 comments

Fun with JavaScript Arrays

http://blog.mikota.cz/2013/06/fun-with-javascript-arrays.html

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 33 comments

Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1259422/edward-snowden-let-hong-kong-people-decide-my-fate

13 years ago

94 upvotes – 11 comments

NSA leaker Edward Snowden: U.S. targets China with hackers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/snowden-wants-people-of-hong-kong-to-decide-my-fate/2013/06/12/a69e94ee-d370-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 94 comments

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes (1935)

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 4 comments

Clojure Cookbook is now accepting contributions

http://contribute.clojure-cookbook.com

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

The problem with GNOME 3

http://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/the-problem-with-gnome-3/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 68 comments

Everything I Know about Self-Publishing

https://hackpad.com/Everything-I-Know-about-Self-Publishing-d4zCU7alhJX

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 20 comments

Help HN: Does anyone need a programmer for the next two days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868881

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

FOIAing the NSA: What you can get, what you can't and where to start

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/jun/11/foiaing-nsa-what-you-can-get-what-you-cant-and-whe/

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 3 comments

Files and folders

http://jansen.co/files-and-folders#

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 148 comments

Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/06/custom-ssl-domain-names-root-domain-hosting-for-amazon-cloudfront.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 29 comments

CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell Retires

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/12/191061035/cia-deputy-director-michael-morell-retires

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Brooks, Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry (2011)

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/22/the-simpletons

13 years ago

62 upvotes – 4 comments

Patent US7779046 - Web server and method to provide web-pages to manage devices

https://www.google.com/patents/US7779046

13 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

Kenya May Be Primed For Wide-Scale Bitcoin Adoption

http://www.thegenesisblock.com/guest-post-kenya-primed-for-wide-scale-bitcoin-adoption/

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 37 comments

Demand change, transparency and accountability - Cozy as viable alternative

http://blog.cozycloud.cc/mantra/2013/06/12/PRISM-call-change-transparency-alternatives/

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, many new brand icons

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/?r=hn&v=3.2.0

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 28 comments

Decentralizing Trillian

http://blog.trillian.im/?p=2746

13 years ago

55 upvotes – 34 comments

Facebook now has clickable hashtags

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/633/Public-Conversations-on-Facebook

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 55 comments
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