top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-06-23

Snowden Leaves Hong Kong on Commercial Flight to Moscow

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1267261/snowden-leaves-hong-kong-commercial-flight-moscow

13 years ago

324 upvotes – 196 comments

HKSAR Government issues statement on Edward Snowden

http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/23/P201306230476.htm

13 years ago

305 upvotes – 135 comments

Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From California

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/06/23/bitcoin-foundation-receives-cease-and-desist-order-from-california/

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 105 comments

Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong

http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward.html

13 years ago

287 upvotes – 131 comments

The Physics Behind Traffic Jams

http://www.smartmotorist.com/traffic-and-safety-guideline/traffic-jams.html

13 years ago

256 upvotes – 102 comments

Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/20/194513/obamas-crackdown-views-leaks-as.html#storylink=cpy

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 217 comments

Eigengrau

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

13 years ago

217 upvotes – 68 comments

Bitcoins Seized by DEA

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/post/53700133097/users-bitcoins-seized-by-dea

13 years ago

213 upvotes – 121 comments

Let's deploy via Git

https://coderwall.com/p/xczkaq?&p=1&q=

13 years ago

211 upvotes – 111 comments

Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams

http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-students-and-families-fight-for-the-right-to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html

13 years ago

207 upvotes – 122 comments

U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony in Accusing Snowden of Spying

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06/us-seemingly-unaware-of-irony-in-accusing-snowden-of-spying.html

13 years ago

192 upvotes – 36 comments

Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/facebooks-former-security-chief-now-works-nsa/66432/

13 years ago

191 upvotes – 40 comments

This Really is Big Brother: The Leak Nobody's Noticed

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/this-really-is-big-brother-leak-nobodys.html

13 years ago

187 upvotes – 52 comments

Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/google-handed-over-years-of-e-mails-belonging-to-wikileaks-chatroom-admin/

13 years ago

179 upvotes – 81 comments

Snowden's destination is Venezuela through Havana

http://www.interfax.com/news.asp

13 years ago

170 upvotes – 131 comments

The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management

http://nymag.com/news/features/online-reputation-management-2013-6/

13 years ago

153 upvotes – 36 comments

Chomsky: spying does not protect you

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/19-3

13 years ago

129 upvotes – 66 comments

Ecuador has received asylum request from NSA leaker Snowden

http://rt.com/news/ecuador-asylum-request-snowden-135/

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 78 comments

How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today

13 years ago

127 upvotes – 20 comments

You can donate to WikiLeaks until July 1

http://wikileaks.org/FOR-THE-NEXT-49-DAYS-YOU-CAN.html

13 years ago

124 upvotes – 28 comments

Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-bans-quickmeme-vote-manipulation/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 80 comments

Announcing pqR: A faster version of R

http://radfordneal.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/announcing-pqr-a-faster-version-of-r/

13 years ago

113 upvotes – 37 comments

Birgitta Jonsdottir on why Iceland is not a good destination for Snowden

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkvqor

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 30 comments

Do you really read?

http://jasonevanish.com/2013/06/23/do-you-really-read/

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Map of Botched Paramilitary Police Raids

http://www.cato.org/raidmap

13 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/127320-booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 11 comments

For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-secretive-surveillance-court-rare-scrutiny-in-wake-of-nsa-leaks/2013/06/22/df9eaae6-d9fa-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html?tid=rssfeed

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 6 comments

Snowden arrives at Moscow airport from Hong Kong

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23021767

13 years ago

93 upvotes – 5 comments

Convert Twitter Boostrap to a "flat" design

https://gist.github.com/nodesocket/5843712

13 years ago

92 upvotes – 46 comments

Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/science/study-in-science-shows-end-of-history-illusion.html

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 33 comments

This is a regular text file. People will read it. Maybe.

http://slopjong.de/words.txt

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 68 comments

US whistleblower Edward Snowden believed to have landed in Russia

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0623/458289-edward-snowden/

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 34 comments

NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (1995)

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-12/news/1995346001_1_nsa-eavesdropping-listening-national-security-agency

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 16 comments

Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/?

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 14 comments

Snowden touches down in Moscow ... tweeted by Wikileaks

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/348792474833133570

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 38 comments

Woz compares today's US to the USSR of 30-40 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOWDwKLJAfo

13 years ago

86 upvotes – 23 comments

25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/power-pitch/25-old-millions-cracked-iphones-123419416.html

13 years ago

85 upvotes – 66 comments

Numba - JIT specializing compiler for annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM

http://numba.pydata.org/

13 years ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

US 'disappointed' with Hong Kong, asks Latin American countries to stop Snowden

http://rt.com/news/snowden-us-disappointed-hong-kong-139/

13 years ago

80 upvotes – 54 comments

Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/heirs-of-infocom-where-interactive-fiction-authors-and-games-stand-today/

13 years ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

A Million Engineers in India Are Struggling to Find a Job

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/06/million-engineers-struggling-to-find-job.html

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 79 comments

Jump Point Search Explained

http://zerowidth.com/2013/05/05/jump-point-search-explained.html

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Celery - Distributed Task Queue

https://github.com/celery/celery

13 years ago

★ 28.4k Python
70 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Ask the NSA

http://askthensa.com/

13 years ago

68 upvotes – 20 comments

Snowden's flight from Moscow to Havana passes over US airspace.

https://twitter.com/williamsjon/status/348779748207505408

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 22 comments

Snowden with WikiLeaks legal advisers over Russian Airspace

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/348732325909102593

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/21/1443204/use-tor-get-targeted-by-the-nsa

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

US has revoked Snowden's passport.

https://twitter.com/williamsjon/status/348825177548787712

13 years ago

61 upvotes – 25 comments

DuckDuckGo privacy: A search engine that doesn’t track its users

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/06/duckduckgo_privacy_a_search_engine_that_doesn_t_track_its_users.html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

Introduction to Concurrent Programming with Stackless Python

http://www.grant-olson.net/python/intro-to-stackless-python/browsable-html

13 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Mocl – a Common Lisp implementation for mobile platforms

http://wukix.com/mocl?hn

13 years ago

54 upvotes – 61 comments

Why I’m quitting the C++ Grandmaster Certification course

http://grahampentheny.com/archives/115

13 years ago

53 upvotes – 58 comments

WikiLeaks helps move Snowden on

http://www.smh.com.au/world/wikileaks-helps-move-snowden-on-20130623-2oqv0.html

13 years ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

The Changing Face of Web Development

http://blog.opbeat.com/2013/06/23/the-changing-face-of-web-development/

13 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Tom Mitchell working on new Machine Learning chapters

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/NewChapters.html

13 years ago

50 upvotes – 2 comments
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