hackerNews

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Project Loon (www.google.com)

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Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS phone logs (stockman.house.gov)

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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote [2010] (sivers.org)

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I was on CNN talking NSA spying: "It's time to draw a line in the sand" (money.cnn.com)

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Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them (www.techdirt.com)

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T-Shirt Printing API (www.shirts.io)

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Does America need a Pirate Party? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents (www.rasmussenreports.com)

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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain (www.techdirt.com)

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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests (newsroom.fb.com)

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Our Top-Secret Message to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden (www.wired.com)

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Prince of Persia Code Review (6502 Apple II version) (fabiensanglard.net)

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Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access (googleblog.blogspot.com)

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Politicians call for UK security services to be given greater monitoring powers (bbc.co.uk)

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What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons? (ianstormtaylor.com)

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Javapocalypse (http://jz13.java.no)

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Leaked: NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance (www.techdirt.com)

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Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle (www.npr.org)

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Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview (thenextweb.com)

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Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets (www.scmp.com)

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My NSA Records - Submit a FOIA Request or Motion to Quash (www.mynsarecords.com)

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Trezor - a hardware bitcoin wallet, now open for pre-orders (www.bitcointrezor.com)

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Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on (rt.com)

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NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn’t anyone use it? (www.washingtonpost.com)

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The rise and fall of couchsurfing.org/.com (nithincoca.com)

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Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture (www.businessweek.com)

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Scientist Figures Out How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley (www.core77.com)

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Glasshole (www.penny-arcade.com)

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Surprising magnetic effect of light discovered at University of Michigan (2011) (michigantoday.umich.edu)

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Hell freezes over: Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS (arstechnica.com)

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Fix Things, Never Force It: Lessons From Grandpa (www.theatlantic.com)

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SV builds amazing spy tools, is horrified when they’re used for spying (pandodaily.com)

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Do It Yourself Brain Stimulation has Scientists Worried (news.nationalpost.com)

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Onion Pi - Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy (learn.adafruit.com)

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Show HN: C library of generic, reference-counted data structures (theck01.github.io)

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Dotcom alleges Megaupload raid was part of deal to film The Hobbit (www.abc.net.au)

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Introducing the Mozilla Science Lab (blog.mozilla.org)

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State of Web Inspector (www.webkit.org)

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Website mistakes that are easily fixed (www.hanselman.com)

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Show HN: MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka (http://maildrop.cc)

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Scala.JS Write in Scala for Web Browser (lampwww.epfl.ch)

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Sympathy for the Luddites (www.nytimes.com)

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Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away? (arstechnica.com)

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Getting Started with Ember.js (blog.balancedpayments.com)

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German Federal Government intelligence agencies can decrypt PGP (translate.google.com)

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Poll: What Language would/do you use to build a web application (news.ycombinator.com)

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Golang 10x faster than Ruby for web APIs (plus.google.com)

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Airbus A350 successfully completes maiden test flight (www.bbc.co.uk)

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How Apple's Garbage Collector Trashed Our iOS App (tech.cueup.com)

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On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda (guardiannews.com)

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3.5% of Android phone clocks are wrong by more than an hour (opensignal.com)

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Absolute knowledge is absolute power (peternixey.com)

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Revealed – Australia’s own PRISM facility (www.itwire.com)

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Show HN: Echoplexus – An OSS alternative to Hipchat, Flowdock, and others (echoplex.us)

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AppFog Now Part of Savvis Cloud (www.appfog.com)

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Google opts out of FISA disclosure deal, calls it 'a step back for users' (mobile.theverge.com)

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Some Foreign Telcos Reportedly Defied NSA Phone Spying Order (techcrunch.com)

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How I Published my Book on Go (www.doxsey.net)

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On negotiating your first few partnerships (danshipper.com)

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Ask PG: Accessing HN via Tor (news.ycombinator.com)

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Instacart (YC S12) is now not just easier, but cheaper (blog.ycombinator.com)

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Heyzap Says Its Mobile Ad Network Has Grown To 800 Games (techcrunch.com)

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On PRISM, a response from Private Internet Access (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

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The Register puts Soylent to the test (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Scientists Go Medieval To Solve Ancient Leprosy Puzzle (www.npr.org)

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Show HN: Github for Contracts (www.comparisign.com)

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Men are 50% more likely than women to support whistleblower Edward Snowden (survata.com)

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Crisis Of Confidence Could Spur Flight From US Tech (www.forbes.com)

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T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Shielded from NSA Sweep (online.wsj.com)

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Snowden’s Leaks on China Could Affect Its Role in His Fate (www.nytimes.com)

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System76 unveils the Galago UltraPro Ubuntu ultrabook (www.solidgadget.com)

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Agave.js - cleaner, simpler JavaScript for ES5 environments (agavejs.org)

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Citizens of Rio and Sao Paulo revolt against government reforms. (saladuprising.tumblr.com)

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Ask PG: Can you make a statement on privacy regarding HN servers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Why geniuses don't have jobs - CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)

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Search Engine Ixquick does not collect or share information (www.ixquick.com)

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Burger King Banned From Opening Within 20 Miles Of Mom-And-Pop Burger King Sign (finance.yahoo.com)

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Your display setup? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Do We Need to Fire the Entire Financial Advice Industry? (www.mrmoneymustache.com)

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On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda (www.guardian.co.uk)

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"I’ve decided to keep that black tape on my computer camera" (www.forbes.com)

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Facebook Will Likely Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event (techcrunch.com)

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Apache PHP Malware Injection into JavaScript Files (blog.sucuri.net)

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Yahoo Fought Back Against PRISM, Lost In Secret Ruling (www.techdirt.com)

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Human-Powered Helicopter Team May Have Won Sikorsky Prize (www.wired.com)

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StopWatching.Us Anti-surveillance Coalition AMA (www.reddit.com)

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BlinkBox or Netflix? In the UK you might want both (movies-tanktop-static.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com)

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Duke Nukem deal goes sour as 3D Realms sues Gearbox (gamasutra.com)

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Requiem for a Back Button (www.subtraction.com)

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EFF: Biden in 2006 debates Obama in 2013 over NSA spying program (www.youtube.com)

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PRISM: Why you should care (Cory Doctorow) (www.guardian.co.uk)

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The Sickening Snowden Backlash (www.thedailybeast.com)

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There Is No Classical World (www.preposterousuniverse.com)

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Slimformation: Chrome extension for improving your info consumption habits (knightlab.northwestern.edu)

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Two-Year-Old Flash Bug Still Allows Webcam Spying On Chrome Users (www.forbes.com)

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Ask HN: How do you and your team share code snippets? (news.ycombinator.com)

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In Brazil, Violence Erupts at Bus-Fare Protest (online.wsj.com)

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This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3 [video] (kotaku.com)

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Netflix builds a tool for jumping between Amazon clouds (gigaom.com)

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How Google Will Use Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands (www.wired.com)

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Can we try to find solution to NSA and all such spying (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ellsberg on the High Costs of Executive Branch Secrecy (www.theatlantic.com)

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Office for iPhone is here (itunes.apple.com)

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Show HN: I learned to code to launch my first iOS game - Sky Fish Phonics. (itunes.apple.com)

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Are these Edward Snowden’s ARSTechnica posts? (soupsoup.net)

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Facebook in talks with Feds to allow FISA disclosures (allthingsd.com)

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Snowden used a USB Thumbdrive to smuggle NSA data (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Kickstarter almost enabled a $120,000 fraud, and it’s not the first (qz.com)

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Lulu is stealing the user information from 500M+ Facebook users (qz.com)

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AppFog Now Part of Savvis Cloud (www.appfog.com)

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In the digital economy, we'll soon all be working for free – and I refuse (www.guardian.co.uk)

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Experts Doubt NSA Leaker's Claim About Wiretaps (www.npr.org)

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Ask HN: have you chose HTML5 over native app? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ask HN: is there marketplace for writers? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Reddit AMA on NSA Spying happening now with EFF, Mozilla, Reddit founder (www.reddit.com)

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How should I ask about work/life balance during an Interview? (workplace.stackexchange.com)

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MineAssemble - Bootable Minecraft clone partly written in assembly (github.com)

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"No" is a beautiful word. (erniemiller.org)