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1.		Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense (sun-sentinel.com)
		506 points by pain_perdu on June 13, 2013 \| 126 comments
2.		PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever (venturebeat.com)
		459 points by tchalla on June 13, 2013 \| 206 comments
3.		German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents (fsfe.org)
		428 points by chalst on June 13, 2013 \| 25 comments
4.		Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable, Synthetic DNA Is [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
		372 points by jakewalker on June 13, 2013 \| 165 comments
5.		Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac (modern.ie)
		359 points by JunkDNA on June 13, 2013 \| 132 comments
6.		"Microsoft engineer" on Xbox1 (pastebin.com)
		337 points by Luc on June 13, 2013 \| 283 comments
7.		Music to Let you Concentrate (focusatwill.com)
		335 points by biswajitsharma on June 13, 2013 \| 186 comments
8.		There's a map for that (github.com/blog)
		305 points by bencevans on June 13, 2013 \| 73 comments
9.		Warrant Canary (wikipedia.org)
		289 points by decklin on June 13, 2013 \| 128 comments
10.		Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented (washingtonpost.com)
		276 points by chwolfe on June 13, 2013 \| 56 comments
11.		NSA revelations only 'the tip of the iceberg,' says Dem lawmaker (thehill.com)
		257 points by shill on June 13, 2013 \| 93 comments
12.		The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean (netcraft.com)
		253 points by beigeotter on June 13, 2013 \| 161 comments
13.		New Werkzeug and Flask Releases (pocoo.org)
		251 points by ch0wn on June 13, 2013 \| 57 comments
14.		FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case (eff.org)
		222 points by Titanous on June 13, 2013 \| 47 comments
15.		Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers (washingtonpost.com)
		200 points by Libertatea on June 13, 2013 \| 153 comments
16.		What people are googling in real time (google.com)
		195 points by bamazizi on June 13, 2013 \| 100 comments
17.		What is Microsoft smoking? (irrlicht3d.org)
		188 points by irrlichthn on June 13, 2013 \| 246 comments
18.		Great Works in Programming Languages (2004) (upenn.edu)
		184 points by timf on June 13, 2013 \| 46 comments
19.		You can make complex web apps responsive (adioso.com)
		182 points by wernah on June 13, 2013 \| 40 comments
20.		Stop Watching Us Gathers Over 100,000 signatures to fight NSA surveillance (thenextweb.com)
		162 points by sethbannon on June 13, 2013 \| 58 comments
21.		Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV (torrentfreak.com)
		163 points by Libertatea on June 13, 2013 \| 99 comments
22.		Rally in Hong Kong to Support Edward Snowden (facebook.com)
		162 points by sethbannon on June 13, 2013 \| 6 comments
23.		RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling (rethinkdb.com)
		164 points by coffeemug on June 13, 2013 \| 70 comments
24.		The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies (mediaite.com)
		161 points by skwirl on June 13, 2013 \| 239 comments
25.		The Destruction of the Web (jacquesmattheij.com)
		156 points by bussetta on June 13, 2013 \| 96 comments
26.		Retiring Chrome Frame (chromium.org)
		146 points by goddabuzz on June 13, 2013 \| 95 comments
27.		Google App Engine now supports Git Push-To-Deploy (developers.google.com)
		135 points by AndrewDucker on June 13, 2013 \| 24 comments
28.		Clojure.core: Batteries Almost Included (adambard.com)
		134 points by michaelochurch on June 13, 2013 \| 26 comments
29.		Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool (invoiceomatic.io)
		128 points by cornet on June 13, 2013 \| 88 comments
30.		Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar (wired.com)
		133 points by clicks on June 13, 2013 \| 33 comments
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