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Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies (theguardian.com)
509 points by weu on Aug 9, 2013 | 166 comments
2.
Bugger (bbc.co.uk)
373 points by Ygg2 on Aug 9, 2013 | 101 comments
3.
NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls (theguardian.com)
300 points by LoganCale on Aug 9, 2013 | 62 comments
4.
Free Schnail Mail for life (aralbalkan.com)
260 points by stephenc_c_ on Aug 9, 2013 | 85 comments
5.
Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t (techcrunch.com)
264 points by L4mppu on Aug 9, 2013 | 86 comments
6.
Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser (app.io)
261 points by rogerfernandezg on Aug 9, 2013 | 107 comments
7.
Silent Circle shuts down email service (silentcircle.wordpress.com)
252 points by fnordfnordfnord on Aug 9, 2013 | 71 comments
8.
Two Providers of Secure E-Mail Shut Down (nytimes.com)
244 points by jrochkind1 on Aug 9, 2013 | 69 comments
9.
SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police (newyorker.com)
234 points by georgecmu on Aug 9, 2013 | 159 comments
10.
We need an NRA for privacy
233 points by plg on Aug 9, 2013 | 167 comments
11.
Obama to release FISA court opinion that ruled NSA surveillance unconstitutional (eff.org)
227 points by sinak on Aug 9, 2013 | 142 comments
12.
Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser? (eff.org)
210 points by X4 on Aug 9, 2013 | 143 comments
13.
Hex, Lies and Startups (codingjohnson.com)
208 points by gringofyx on Aug 9, 2013 | 141 comments
14.
Information Dashboard Design, 2nd Edition (chartio.com)
196 points by thingsilearned on Aug 9, 2013 | 31 comments
15.
NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers (reuters.com)
171 points by Chirael on Aug 9, 2013 | 104 comments
16.
A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
152 points by kjhughes on Aug 9, 2013 | 119 comments
17.
Unusual speed boost: size matters
142 points by othermaciej on Aug 9, 2013 | 72 comments
18.
New Sublime Package Control Site (wbond.net)
132 points by jfraser on Aug 9, 2013 | 49 comments
19.
Mailinator has a new design (mailinator.com)
128 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 9, 2013 | 54 comments
20.
Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones (techcrunch.com)
128 points by jansen on Aug 9, 2013 | 60 comments
21.
CloudFlare and Free Speech (cloudflare.com)
139 points by jgrahamc on Aug 9, 2013 | 31 comments
22.
 [dupe] NSA To Lay Off 90 Percent Of Its System Administrators (techweekeurope.co.uk)
114 points by tod222 on Aug 9, 2013 | 77 comments
23.
Deutsche Telekom, Web.de and GMX launch "E-mail made in Germany" initiative (telekom.com)
113 points by junto on Aug 9, 2013 | 96 comments
24.
Let's remove verbs from HTTP 2.0 (onebigfluke.com)
113 points by bslatkin on Aug 9, 2013 | 136 comments
25.
NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access (reuters.com)
108 points by kjhughes on Aug 9, 2013 | 76 comments
26.
NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look (andrewxhill.github.io)
102 points by andrewxhill on Aug 9, 2013 | 23 comments
27.
Open Source Backdoor – Copyrighted Under GNU GPL (sucuri.net)
101 points by cubictwo on Aug 9, 2013 | 34 comments
28.
Top Rift Experiences Right Now (oculusriftinfo.com)
97 points by thenomad on Aug 9, 2013 | 31 comments
29.
Is a Nest worth the money? (developdaly.com)
95 points by benackles on Aug 9, 2013 | 82 comments
30.
FBI Special Agent visit Thursday August 8th (noisebridge.net)
95 points by GuiA on Aug 9, 2013 | 35 comments

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