top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-18

Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/06/16/ultimate-tic-tac-toe/

13 years ago

786 upvotes – 123 comments

Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/3-former-nsa-employees-praise-edward-snowden-corroborate-key-claims/276964/

13 years ago

580 upvotes – 71 comments

The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-racial-justice/constitution-applies-when-government-bans-americans-skies

13 years ago

422 upvotes – 201 comments

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-challenges-us-gag-order-citing-first-amendment/2013/06/18/96835c72-d832-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html

13 years ago

414 upvotes – 176 comments

MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL

https://blog.mariadb.org/mysql-man-pages-silently-relicensed-away-from-gpl/

13 years ago

398 upvotes – 180 comments

Buying the new MacBook Air

http://virtualpants.com/post/53248259631/buying-the-new-macbook-air

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 270 comments

Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/evidence_that_t.html

13 years ago

283 upvotes – 90 comments

Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames

13 years ago

281 upvotes – 79 comments

Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network

http://arabcrunch.com/2013/06/facebook-blocks-log-ins-from-tor-browser-putting-thousands-of-political-activist-at-risk.html

13 years ago

275 upvotes – 124 comments

Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-and-tor

13 years ago

268 upvotes – 52 comments

Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access

http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/17/journalists-need-to-start-asking-about-storage-not-access/

13 years ago

263 upvotes – 50 comments

Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them

http://www.mynsarecords.com/blog/2013-06-17-want-to-file-a-motion-in-the-fisa-court/

13 years ago

255 upvotes – 81 comments

Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war?

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.html

13 years ago

237 upvotes – 119 comments

Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/containers%E2%80%94not-virtual-machines%E2%80%94are-future-cloud

13 years ago

228 upvotes – 138 comments

Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists

http://www.marco.org/2013/06/17/app-store-top-lists

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 140 comments

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

13 years ago

174 upvotes – 69 comments

Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/in-first-nsa-interview-obama-cant-confirm-if-courts-ever-rejected-spying-requests/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 72 comments

NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/18/nsa-director-says-agency-implementing-two-person-rule-to-stop-the-next-edward-snowden

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 123 comments

TypeScript 0.9 released

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/06/18/announcing-typescript-0-9.aspx

13 years ago

158 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music

http://getsoundbrush.com

13 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Realm of Racket

http://nostarch.com/realmofracket

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 57 comments

Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22946736

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 72 comments

Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account

http://www.ripton.net/blog/?p=84

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 120 comments

LLVM 3.3 Released

http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

13 years ago

143 upvotes – 17 comments

Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/220343

13 years ago

138 upvotes – 119 comments

NSA Disruption of Stock Exchange Bomb Plot Disputed

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-stock-exchange/

13 years ago

137 upvotes – 80 comments

CallDay.org by StopWatchingUs: Call your representatives about NSA surveillance

http://callday.org

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 3 comments

Bank of America whistle-blower: “We were told to lie”

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/18/bank_of_america_whistleblowers_bombshell_we_were_told_to_lie/

13 years ago

131 upvotes – 33 comments

A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516156/a-popular-ad-blocker-also-helps-the-ad-industry

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 103 comments

Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky201208251

13 years ago

122 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

http://tamper.io/morning/

13 years ago

110 upvotes – 78 comments

A London pub now accepts payment in Bitcoin

http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/bitcoin.html

13 years ago

105 upvotes – 53 comments

Functional JavaScript: Closure

http://blog.fogus.me/2013/06/18/functional-javascript-closure/

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 66 comments

DjangoAdmin 2.0 - rewrite of django.contrib.admin

https://github.com/twoscoops/django-admin2

13 years ago

★ 1.1k Python BSD-3-Clause
96 upvotes – 29 comments

Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/yc-backed-filepicker-io-rebrands-as-ink-raises-1-8m-from-andreessen-horowitz-highland-capital-others/

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Estimated Cost to Store All US Phone Calls Made in a Year

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuqlWHQKlooOdGJrSzhBVnh0WGlzWHpCZFNVcURkX0E#gid=0

13 years ago

91 upvotes – 53 comments

Sprouts Explained

http://nrich.maths.org/2413

13 years ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578541902814606098.html

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change

http://www.cringely.com/2013/06/18/snowden-and-the-nsa-reflect-a-millennial-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=snowden-and-the-nsa-reflect-a-millennial-climate-change

13 years ago

73 upvotes – 16 comments

NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml

13 years ago

72 upvotes – 47 comments

The Mac Pro from an audio pros perspective

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/life-after-slots-what-the-mac-pro-external-hardware-mean-for-production/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 75 comments

1984, Hungarian Edition

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/1984-hungarian-edition/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 89 comments

FiftyThree

http://cdixon.org/2013/06/18/fiftythree/

13 years ago

64 upvotes – 30 comments

Do You Have A Right to Remain Silent? Thoughts on Salinas v. Texas

http://www.volokh.com/2013/06/17/do-you-have-a-right-to-remain-silent-thoughts-on-the-sleeper-criminal-procedure-case-of-the-term-salinas-v-texas/

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 62 comments

ASCII is 50 years old

http://the60sat50.blogspot.fr/2013/06/monday-june-17-1963-ascii.html

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Whistleblowers are not traitors

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blog/whistleblowers-edward-snowden-bradley-manning/#.UcBtm-smzs8

13 years ago

59 upvotes – 26 comments

The Opa Framework for JavaScript

http://opalang.org/

13 years ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

The JVM situation

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/scala-functional/kvbaE6cAzqM

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 102 comments

E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress (2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html?pagewanted=all

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 10 comments
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