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1.		Demonstrations to protest NSA spying planned for July 4th (restorethefourth.net)
		312 points by pvnick on June 22, 2013 \| 45 comments
2.		Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data (scmp.com)
		286 points by teawithcarl on June 22, 2013 \| 172 comments
3.		Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures (whitehouse.gov)
		283 points by rory096 on June 22, 2013 \| 117 comments
4.		Email Sent by Michael Hastings Hours Before His Death Mentions ‘Big Story’ (theblaze.com)
		204 points by r0h1n on June 22, 2013 \| 153 comments
5.		Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy (wikileaks.org)
		195 points by mdelias on June 22, 2013 \| 100 comments
6.		NSA surveillance may be legal – but it’s unconstitutional (washingtonpost.com)
		186 points by Libertatea on June 22, 2013 \| 31 comments
7.		U.S. asks Hong Kong to extradite Snowden (usatoday.com)
		172 points by Jaqua on June 22, 2013 \| 46 comments
8.		EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents (eff.org)
		169 points by magicalist on June 22, 2013 \| 5 comments
9.		The Technical Interview Is Dead (techcrunch.com)
		165 points by victorhn on June 22, 2013 \| 123 comments
10.		Free "Lisp Hackers" Ebook (lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)
		157 points by daw___ on June 22, 2013 \| 19 comments
11.		Turkish drone shooting heralds a new age of civillian counter-surveillance (geek.com)
		151 points by radley on June 22, 2013 \| 59 comments
12.		PNG vs SVG for sprites (codepen.io)
		147 points by obilgic on June 22, 2013 \| 102 comments
13.		Only Nixon Harmed a Free Press More (nytimes.com)
		143 points by teawithcarl on June 22, 2013 \| 80 comments
14.		What is Happening in Brazil (medium.com/i-m-h-o)
		141 points by paulovsk on June 22, 2013 \| 46 comments
15.		US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fibre-optic network operator, in 2009 (scmp.com)
		130 points by teawithcarl on June 22, 2013 \| 23 comments
16.		Steve Blank: Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats (wsj.com)
		119 points by gasull on June 22, 2013 \| 8 comments
17.		Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456) (blynde.com)
		118 points by jeremylevy on June 22, 2013 \| 92 comments
18.		No clear answers why Snowden remains free despite U.S. request for his arrest (washingtonpost.com)
		114 points by Libertatea on June 22, 2013 \| 30 comments
19.		Book Review: Violent Python (ethicalhacker.net)
		96 points by ddonzal on June 22, 2013 \| 8 comments
20.		Buzz Aldrin calls for humans to colonise Mars (bbc.co.uk)
		96 points by MikeCapone on June 22, 2013 \| 63 comments
21.		FBI uses facial recognition to compare subjects with driver's license photos (epic.org)
		90 points by teawithcarl on June 22, 2013 \| 27 comments
22.		Petition to prosecute James Clapper for lying to Congress (whitehouse.gov)
		87 points by duggieawesome on June 22, 2013 \| 12 comments
23.		WikiLeaks' Assange urges support for Snowden (cnn.com)
		90 points by finspin on June 22, 2013 \| 38 comments
24.		Go's range clause (funcmain.com)
		82 points by peterarmitage on June 22, 2013 \| 33 comments
25.		The New Mac Pro (kickingbear.com)
		75 points by ingve on June 22, 2013 \| 119 comments
26.		NewsDiffs: Tracking Online News Articles Over Time (newsdiffs.org)
		77 points by ashleyblackmore on June 22, 2013 \| 13 comments
27.		[dupe] Petition to pre-emptively pardon Edward Snowden reaches goal of 100k signatures (falkvinge.net)
		77 points by gpvos on June 22, 2013 \| 2 comments
28.		First steps with Hy, the Pythonic Lisp (tech-thoughts-blog.com)
		69 points by babarock on June 22, 2013 \| 28 comments
29.		New York Lawmakers Set Aside Bill Threatening Tesla Sales (bloomberg.com)
		68 points by bashgrep on June 22, 2013 \| 17 comments
30.		UK 'biggest spy' among the Five Eyes (news.com.au)
		64 points by o0-0o on June 22, 2013 \| 12 comments
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