top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-15

Project Loon

http://www.google.com/loon/

13 years ago

1094 upvotes – 286 comments

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-listening-to-u.s-phone-calls-without-warrants/

13 years ago

834 upvotes – 389 comments

Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/305765-senators-skip-classified-briefing-on-nsa-snooping-to-catch-flights-home

13 years ago

459 upvotes – 141 comments

Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/watch-2013-president-obama-debate-2006-joe-biden-over-nsa-surveillance

13 years ago

295 upvotes – 81 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped

http://sub.garrytan.com/martin-luther-king-jr-was-wiretapped-and-sent-an-anonymous-letter-from-j-edgar-hoover-encouraging-him-to-kill-himself

13 years ago

258 upvotes – 86 comments

The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online

http://money.msn.com/credit-rating/irs-tracks-your-digital-footprint#scpshrtu

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 93 comments

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

https://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-Including-All-National-Security-Requests

13 years ago

238 upvotes – 199 comments

Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/introducing-project-loon.html

13 years ago

189 upvotes – 50 comments

Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-bigger-data-seizure

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 22 comments

NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/17490723465/leaked-nsas-talking-points-defending-nsa-surveillance.shtml

13 years ago

168 upvotes – 44 comments

Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview [video]

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/15/woz-talks-ios-7-and-prism-in-an-off-the-cuff-airport-interview/

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 25 comments

Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191727408/archaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle

13 years ago

156 upvotes – 11 comments

COINTELPRO

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

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 38 comments

Off-the-Record Messaging – encrypt your instant messages

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/index.php

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 33 comments

22k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD?v1

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 46 comments

“Whistleblower welcome in China”

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-06/14/c_132455893.htm

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 121 comments

Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture

13 years ago

123 upvotes – 23 comments

Scientist Figures Out How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley

http://www.core77.com/blog/transportation/scientist_figures_out_how_those_big-ass_sailing_stones_move_themselves_across_death_valley_25038.asp

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 31 comments

Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-about-freedom-zero.html

13 years ago

117 upvotes – 96 comments

Senate Staffers Told To Pretend Top Secret Docs Are Not Widely Available On Web

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/06/14/senate-staffers-told-to-pretend-top-secret-documents-are-not-widely-available-on-web/

13 years ago

114 upvotes – 21 comments

Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be

https://www.facebook.com/notes/naomi-wolf/my-creeping-concern-that-the-nsa-leaker-is-not-who-he-purports-to-be-/10151559239607949

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 114 comments

General Alexander wearing EFF shirt

https://twitter.com/EFF/status/346011010819305472/photo/1

13 years ago

109 upvotes – 40 comments

Redbus.in acquired for $138M

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/redbus-naspers-acquisition-details-297/

13 years ago

102 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: C library of generic, reference-counted data structures

http://theck01.github.io/offbrand_lib/

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 40 comments

Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan

http://sivers.org/robust

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 15 comments

Programmable Water (2003)

http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_water.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka

http://maildrop.cc

13 years ago

81 upvotes – 32 comments

Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/15/191822828/source-obama-considering-releasing-nsa-court-order

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 18 comments

One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective

http://andrewbrookins.com/tech/one-year-later-an-epic-review-of-pycharm-2-7-from-a-vim-users-perspective/

13 years ago

79 upvotes – 39 comments

Numba vs. Cython: Take 2

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/06/15/numba-vs-cython-take-2/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

German intelligence agencies can decrypt PGP?

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fbundesregierung-deutsche-geheimdienste-koennen-pgp-entschluesseln-1205-92031.html

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

Pine Gap

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

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Scala.js - Write in Scala for the browser

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~doeraene/presentations/scala-js-scaladays2013/#/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Filmmaker from NSA Leaks Case Emerges from Behind the Camera

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/business/media/filmmaker-linked-to-leaks-has-her-own-stories-to-tell.html?hp

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

Sony Smartwatch now open-sourced

http://www.linuxandlife.com/2013/06/sony-smartwatch-now-open-sourced.html

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Notational Velocity

http://notational.net/

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

Revealed – Australia’s own PRISM facility

http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/60282-revealed-%E2%80%93-australia%E2%80%99s-own-prism-facility

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments
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