top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-14

Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS phone logs

http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-requests-subpoena-of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs

13 years ago

472 upvotes – 155 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

http://sivers.org/itunes

13 years ago

442 upvotes – 104 comments

Reddit co-founder on NSA snooping [video]

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/06/11/t-co-reddit-alexis-ohanian.cnnmoney

13 years ago

370 upvotes – 175 comments

Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml

13 years ago

332 upvotes – 65 comments

T-Shirt Printing API

https://www.shirts.io/

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 127 comments

Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216440-chrome#manual

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 122 comments

Does America need a Pirate Party?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/05/02/does-america-need-a-pirate-party/

13 years ago

290 upvotes – 123 comments

57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2013/57_fear_government_will_use_nsa_data_to_harass_political_opponents

13 years ago

272 upvotes – 84 comments

Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml

13 years ago

262 upvotes – 30 comments

It's not just metadata – the NSA is getting everything

http://blog.rubbingalcoholic.com/post/52913031241/its-not-just-meta-data-the-nsa-is-getting-everything

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 67 comments

U.S. National Security Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html

13 years ago

241 upvotes – 74 comments

An encrypted message to Edward Snowden

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/signed-bda0df3c/

13 years ago

240 upvotes – 151 comments

Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/60292-red-hat-ditches-mysql-switches-to-mariadb

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 75 comments

Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security

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

13 years ago

216 upvotes – 134 comments

Surviving under water in an air bubble

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/67970/surviving-under-water-in-air-bubble

13 years ago

196 upvotes – 67 comments

How We Uncovered the Biggest Fraud in Kickstarter History

http://www.kickstartedmovie.com/#!kobe-beef-scam/c17i0

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

Politicians call for UK security services to be given greater monitoring powers

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22891845

13 years ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?

http://ianstormtaylor.com/whats-wrong-with-the-ios-7-icons/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 176 comments

Javapocalypse

http://jz13.java.no

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 128 comments

Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-snowden-classified-us-data-shows-hong-kong-hacking-targets

13 years ago

159 upvotes – 120 comments

My NSA Records - Submit a FOIA Request or Motion to Quash

http://www.mynsarecords.com/

13 years ago

142 upvotes – 85 comments

NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn’t anyone use it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/14/nsa-proof-encryption-exists-why-doesnt-anyone-use-it/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 135 comments

Trezor - a hardware bitcoin wallet, now open for pre-orders

http://www.bitcointrezor.com/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

The Rise and Fall of Couchsurfing

http://nithincoca.com/2013/03/27/the-rise-and-fall-of-couchsurfing/

13 years ago

136 upvotes – 74 comments

Remove unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository from your sources

http://bits.debian.org/2013/06/remove-debian-multimedia.html

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Glasshole

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/14/glasshole

13 years ago

119 upvotes – 100 comments

Surprising magnetic effect of light discovered at University of Michigan (2011)

http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2011/04/story.php?id=7980

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/hell-freezes-over-microsoft-office-mobile-arrives-for-ios/

13 years ago

116 upvotes – 63 comments

Silicon Valley builds spy tools, is horrified when they’re used for spying

http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/14/silicon-valley-builds-amazing-spy-tools-is-horrified-when-theyre-used-for-spying/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 66 comments

Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/fix-things-never-force-it-lessons-from-grandpa/276873/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 56 comments

Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/13/swedes-say-no-to-google-apps-for-government-use/

13 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

Onion Pi - Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy

http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi?view=all

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 20 comments

Do It Yourself Brain Stimulation has Scientists Worried

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/12/transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-tdcs-technology/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29

13 years ago

104 upvotes – 115 comments

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden not welcome in the UK

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/407480/NSA-whistleblower-Edward-Snowden-not-welcome-in-the-UK-as-Home-Office-issues-alert

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 53 comments

"I have nothing to hide" is the wrong way to think about surveillance

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 18 comments

Dotcom alleges Megaupload raid was part of deal to film The Hobbit

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-13/megaupload-kim-dotcom-opens-up-about-extradition-fight/4752410?section=business

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

Introducing the Mozilla Science Lab

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/06/14/5992/

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

CSS3 Animations with special effects

http://www.minimamente.com/magic-css3-animations/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Birthday Song’s Copyright Leads to a Lawsuit for the Ages

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/nyregion/lawsuit-aims-to-strip-happy-birthday-to-you-of-its-copyright.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

State of Web Inspector

https://www.webkit.org/blog/2518/state-of-web-inspector/

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

Journalists Detained Attempting to Video NSA Building where Snowden Worked

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/06/13/journalists-detained-attempting-to-video-record-nsa-building-where-snowden-worked/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 13 comments

Website mistakes that are easily fixed

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/StopDoingInternetWrong.aspx

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 68 comments

Snowden banned from flying to UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22902098

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 63 comments

Sympathy for the Luddites

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_SFT_20130614&_r=0

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 85 comments

Getting Started with Ember.js

http://blog.balancedpayments.com/getting-started-with-ember.js/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/encrypted-e-mail-how-much-annoyance-will-you-tolerate-to-keep-the-nsa-away/

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 92 comments

Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ruling-put-tech-companies-in-data-bind.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Absolute knowledge is absolute power

http://peternixey.com/post/52942971550/absolute-knowledge-is-absolute-power

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 28 comments

3.5% of Android phone clocks are wrong by more than an hour

http://opensignal.com/reports/timestamps/

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 21 comments

How a bug in ported garbage-collected code trashed our iOS app

http://tech.cueup.com/blog/2013/06/14/how-apples-garbage-collector-trashed-our-ios-app

13 years ago

66 upvotes – 29 comments

Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101114877505962271216/posts/PeZk8FY3PWY

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 59 comments

Airbus A350 successfully completes maiden test flight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22899952

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 50 comments

On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda

http://guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/nsa-partisanship-propaganda-prism

13 years ago

63 upvotes – 18 comments
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