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1.		US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program (washingtonpost.com)
		997 points by donohoe on June 6, 2013 \| 385 comments
2.		Are coders worth it? (aeonmagazine.com)
		730 points by Libertatea on June 6, 2013 \| 305 comments
3.		The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important (gigaom.com)
		683 points by cdooh on June 6, 2013 \| 65 comments
4.		Donate to the EFF (eff.org)
		548 points by il on June 6, 2013 \| 35 comments
5.		U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls (nytimes.com)
		496 points by zt on June 6, 2013 \| 108 comments
6.		NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (washingtonpost.com)
		474 points by o0-0o on June 6, 2013 \| 117 comments
7.		President Obama’s Dragnet (nytimes.com)
		458 points by forgotAgain on June 6, 2013 \| 139 comments
8.		Stellar Wind (code name) (wikipedia.org)
		404 points by bascule on June 6, 2013 \| 167 comments
9.		NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012) (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		366 points by mitchelllc on June 6, 2013 \| 55 comments
10.		Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it (denverpost.com)
		292 points by lawnchair_larry on June 6, 2013 \| 48 comments
11.		Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake (etanzapinsky.com)
		260 points by etanz on June 6, 2013 \| 121 comments
12.		Posting to HN is like exposing yourself to the eye of Mordor
		212 points by dsowers on June 6, 2013 \| 121 comments
13.		Google, Apple and Facebook Deny Participating In Alleged NSA “PRISM” Program (marketingland.com)
		201 points by rasterizer on June 6, 2013 \| 100 comments
14.		Ask HN: Alternatives to HN
		197 points by klrr on June 6, 2013 \| 168 comments
15.		The doctors give me 30 days to live, each post is potentially my last (translate.google.com)
		195 points by eschnou on June 6, 2013 \| 115 comments
16.		Welcome to Echelon 2.0 (erratasec.blogspot.com)
		191 points by bluetooth on June 6, 2013 \| 52 comments
17.		Hetzner Servers Compromised (hetzner.de)
		180 points by martindale on June 6, 2013 \| 130 comments
18.		Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorrectly (plover.net)
		176 points by Leepic on June 6, 2013 \| 126 comments
19.		The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest (thomasbacklund.com)
		170 points by alexholehouse on June 6, 2013 \| 80 comments
20.		Toxic workplace, what do I do? (pastebin.com)
		161 points by fingerDevnull on June 6, 2013 \| 121 comments
21.		Facebook Denies Giving NSA Direct Access To Its Servers (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
		142 points by _pius on June 6, 2013 \| 20 comments
22.		Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago (core77.com)
		133 points by chrbutler on June 6, 2013 \| 16 comments
23.		If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.com, now is the time
		133 points by ibudiallo on June 6, 2013 \| 129 comments
24.		How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall (businessweek.com)
		131 points by nohuck13 on June 6, 2013 \| 86 comments
25.		Machine Learning Cheat Sheet for scikit-learn (peekaboo-vision.blogspot.ca)
		124 points by ColinWright on June 6, 2013 \| 23 comments
26.		Petition to impeach Judge Roger Vinson for authorizing NSA Verizon surveillance (whitehouse.gov)
		120 points by fearless on June 6, 2013 \| 24 comments
27.		Colout – add colors to a text stream in your terminal (nojhan.github.io)
		116 points by nojhan on June 6, 2013 \| 40 comments
28.		There Was a Time before Mathematica (stephenwolfram.com)
		98 points by nswanberg on June 6, 2013 \| 39 comments
29.		Sean Parker's Wedding Defense (mashable.com)
		98 points by pkfrank on June 6, 2013 \| 67 comments
30.		John Gruber and friends launch Vesper note capture app (9to5mac.com)
		96 points by orrsella on June 6, 2013 \| 106 comments
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