top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-06-13

Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/06/12/an-inconvenient-truth-members-of-congress-go-silent-over-prior-false-testimony-on-surveillance/

13 years ago

540 upvotes – 126 comments

Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-phone-records-fisa-broward-20130612,0,5434900.story

13 years ago

506 upvotes – 126 comments

PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/13/prism-fears-give-private-search-engine-duckduckgo-its-best-week-ever/

13 years ago

459 upvotes – 206 comments

German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents

https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130422-01.en.html

13 years ago

428 upvotes – 25 comments

Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf]

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf

13 years ago

372 upvotes – 165 comments

Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

13 years ago

359 upvotes – 132 comments

"Microsoft engineer" on Xbox1

http://pastebin.com/uCmdh9jB

13 years ago

337 upvotes – 283 comments

Music to Let you Concentrate

https://www.focusatwill.com

13 years ago

335 upvotes – 186 comments

There's a map for that

https://github.com/blog/1528-there-s-a-map-for-that

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 73 comments

Warrant Canary

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

13 years ago

289 upvotes – 128 comments

Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-human-genes-cannot-be-patented/2013/06/13/f7681b22-d436-11e2-b3a2-3bf5eb37b9d0_story.html

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 56 comments

NSA revelations only 'the tip of the iceberg,' says Dem lawmaker

http://thehill.com/video/house/305047-dem-rep-lawmakers-learned-significantly-more-about-surveillance-programs-in-nsa-briefing

13 years ago

257 upvotes – 93 comments

The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/13/the-meteoric-rise-of-digitalocean.html

13 years ago

253 upvotes – 161 comments

New Werkzeug and Flask Releases

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/6/13/werkzeug-and-flask-releases/

13 years ago

251 upvotes – 57 comments

FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/public-first-secret-court-grants-eff-motion-consenting-disclosure

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 47 comments

Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/11/hackers-vs-suits-why-nerds-become-leakers/

13 years ago

200 upvotes – 153 comments

What people are googling in real time

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=10&ncol=10

13 years ago

195 upvotes – 100 comments

What is Microsoft smoking?

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1379

13 years ago

188 upvotes – 246 comments

Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml

13 years ago

184 upvotes – 46 comments

You can make complex web apps responsive

http://adioso.com/blog/2013/06/responsifying-adioso/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 40 comments
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