top 50% 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

RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling

http://rethinkdb.com/blog/1.6-release/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 70 comments

Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-releases-new-raid-footage-captured-by-in-house-cctv-130613/

13 years ago

163 upvotes – 99 comments

Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/13/stop-watching-us-a-group-opposed-to-nsa-surveillance-scorches-past-100000-signatures/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 58 comments

Rally in Hong Kong to Support Edward Snowden

https://www.facebook.com/events/343137435789907/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 6 comments

The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies

http://www.mediaite.com/online/fulsome-prism-blues-the-guardian-offers-2nd-worst-clarification-ever-on-nsa-story/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 239 comments

The Destruction of the Web

http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-destruction-of-the-web

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 96 comments

Retiring Chrome Frame

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/06/retiring-chrome-frame.html

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 95 comments

Google App Engine now supports Git Push-To-Deploy

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/push-to-deploy

13 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

Clojure.core: Batteries Almost Included

http://adambard.com/blog/clojure-batteries-included/

13 years ago

134 upvotes – 26 comments

Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/

13 years ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

http://invoiceomatic.io/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 88 comments

Deploy Java Apps With Docker

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/06/deploy-java-apps-with-docker-awesome/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

NSA gets no reply in Dutch cloud provider

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bnr.nl%2Fnieuws%2Ftech%2F663291-1306%2Fnsa-viste-achter-het-net-bij-nederlandse-cloudprovider

13 years ago

120 upvotes – 51 comments

Feds Hunted for Snowden in Days Before NSA Programs Went Public

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/us-usa-security-snowden-hunt-idUSBRE95B1A220130612

13 years ago

115 upvotes – 20 comments

Man on the run: Former CIA spies on what they'd do if they were Snowden

http://www.andmagazine.com/content/phoenix/13012.html

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 77 comments

Meet Thomas Drake, Senior NSA Executive, whistleblower

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-usa-security-nsa-drake-idUSBRE95A12X20130611

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 6 comments

Beyond the default Rails environments

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3535-beyond-the-default-rails-environments

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

The BBC's hi-tech failure: Don't Mention It

http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/06/bbcs-hi-tech-failure

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 90 comments

More on Feudal Security

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/more_on_feudal.html

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 27 comments

Intro to JS Web Workers

https://zapier.com/engineering/intro-to-web-workers/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 9 comments

Thomson Reuters Gives Elite Traders Early Advantage

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100809395

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 41 comments

Putin defends the U.S. on spying programs, drones and Occupy Wall Street

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/13/vladimir-putin-defends-the-u-s-on-spying-programs-drones-and-occupy-wall-street/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 32 comments

Instagram Django site admin

https://instagram.com/django/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 46 comments

Content-based image classification in Python

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/image-classification-in-Python.html

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

Don’t Hash Secrets (2008)

http://benlog.com/articles/2008/06/19/dont-hash-secrets/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2492433

13 years ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Report finds that Human Genome Project has added $1 trillion to US economy

http://www.nature.com/news/economic-return-from-human-genome-project-grows-1.13187

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments
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