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1.		NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants (cnet.com)
		834 points by declan on June 15, 2013 \| 389 comments
2.		Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home (thehill.com)
		459 points by Libertatea on June 15, 2013 \| 141 comments
3.		Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance [video] (eff.org)
		295 points by kirillzubovsky on June 15, 2013 \| 81 comments
4.		Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped (garrytan.com)
		258 points by ghosh on June 15, 2013 \| 86 comments
5.		The IRS has upgraded its technology to track virtually everything you do online (msn.com)
		256 points by jalanco on June 15, 2013 \| 93 comments
6.		Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests (fb.com)
		238 points by erict15 on June 15, 2013 \| 199 comments
7.		Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		189 points by cleverjake on June 15, 2013 \| 50 comments
8.		Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure (ap.org)
		175 points by brown9-2 on June 15, 2013 \| 22 comments
9.		NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance (techdirt.com)
		168 points by mtgx on June 15, 2013 \| 44 comments
10.		Woz talks iOS 7 and PRISM in an off the cuff airport interview [video] (thenextweb.com)
		158 points by rmason on June 15, 2013 \| 25 comments
11.		Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle (npr.org)
		156 points by dboles99 on June 15, 2013 \| 11 comments
12.		COINTELPRO (wikipedia.org)
		147 points by geekfactor on June 15, 2013 \| 38 comments
13.		Off-the-Record Messaging – encrypt your instant messages (cypherpunks.ca)
		139 points by prajjwal on June 15, 2013 \| 33 comments
14.		[dupe] 22k more signatures needed on the Snowden pardon petition (whitehouse.gov)
		138 points by jenius on June 15, 2013 \| 46 comments
15.		“Whistleblower welcome in China” (xinhuanet.com)
		137 points by teawithcarl on June 15, 2013 \| 121 comments
16.		Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture (businessweek.com)
		123 points by robdoherty2 on June 15, 2013 \| 23 comments
17.		Scientist Figures Out How 'Sailing Stones' Move Themselves Across Death Valley (core77.com)
		122 points by sethbannon on June 15, 2013 \| 31 comments
18.		Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (2008) (codinghorror.com)
		117 points by prajjwal on June 15, 2013 \| 96 comments
19.		Senate Staffers Told To Pretend Top Secret Docs Are Not Widely Available On Web (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
		114 points by jalanco on June 15, 2013 \| 21 comments
20.		Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be (facebook.com)
		110 points by ferdo on June 15, 2013 \| 114 comments
21.		General Alexander wearing EFF shirt (twitter.com/eff)
		109 points by FredericJ on June 15, 2013 \| 40 comments
22.		Redbus.in acquired for $138M (nextbigwhat.com)
		102 points by Brajeshwar on June 15, 2013 \| 9 comments
23.		Show HN: C library of generic, reference-counted data structures (theck01.github.io)
		91 points by _cxbj on June 15, 2013 \| 40 comments
24.		Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan (sivers.org)
		91 points by revorad on June 15, 2013 \| 15 comments
25.		Programmable Water (2003) (blikstein.com)
		87 points by llambda on June 15, 2013 \| 19 comments
26.		Show HN: MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka (maildrop.cc)
		81 points by mark242 on June 15, 2013 \| 32 comments
27.		One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective (andrewbrookins.com)
		79 points by lauriswtf on June 15, 2013 \| 39 comments
28.		Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order (npr.org)
		80 points by Libertatea on June 15, 2013 \| 18 comments
29.		Numba vs. Cython: Take 2 (jakevdp.github.io)
		77 points by Bootvis on June 15, 2013 \| 12 comments
30.		Pine Gap (wikipedia.org)
		77 points by ra on June 15, 2013 \| 8 comments
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