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1.		Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims (theatlantic.com)
		580 points by emingo on June 18, 2013 \| 71 comments
2.		The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies (aclu.org)
		422 points by ahmadss on June 18, 2013 \| 201 comments
3.		Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment (washingtonpost.com)
		414 points by stfu on June 18, 2013 \| 176 comments
4.		MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (mariadb.org)
		398 points by endijs on June 18, 2013 \| 180 comments
5.		Buying the new MacBook Air (virtualpants.com)
		325 points by virtualpants on June 18, 2013 \| 270 comments
6.		Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata (schneier.com)
		283 points by Libertatea on June 18, 2013 \| 90 comments
7.		Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (spotify.com)
		281 points by e1ven on June 18, 2013 \| 79 comments
8.		Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network (arabcrunch.com)
		275 points by ArabGeek on June 18, 2013 \| 124 comments
9.		Journalists Need To Start Asking About Storage, Not Access (uncrunched.com)
		263 points by lxm on June 18, 2013 \| 50 comments
10.		Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately (torproject.org)
		268 points by footpixel on June 18, 2013 \| 52 comments
11.		Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them (mynsarecords.com)
		255 points by tsaoutourpants on June 18, 2013 \| 81 comments
12.		Bruce Schneier: Has U.S. started an Internet war? (cnn.com)
		237 points by Titanous on June 18, 2013 \| 119 comments
13.		Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud (linuxjournal.com)
		228 points by dave1010uk on June 18, 2013 \| 138 comments
14.		Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists (marco.org)
		222 points by co_pl_te on June 18, 2013 \| 140 comments
15.		'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf] (ssrn.com)
		174 points by captn3m0 on June 18, 2013 \| 69 comments
16.		Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests (techcrunch.com)
		164 points by marcieoum on June 18, 2013 \| 72 comments
17.		NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		160 points by juvoni on June 18, 2013 \| 123 comments
18.		TypeScript 0.9 released (msdn.com)
		158 points by ixtraz on June 18, 2013 \| 76 comments
19.		Realm of Racket (nostarch.com)
		152 points by Bootvis on June 18, 2013 \| 57 comments
20.		Show HN: We're releasing SoundBrush, an app that lets you draw music (getsoundbrush.com)
		155 points by jayrhynas on June 18, 2013 \| 64 comments
21.		Brazil protests spread in Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Rio (bbc.co.uk)
		145 points by flaviojuvenal on June 18, 2013 \| 72 comments
22.		Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account (ripton.net)
		144 points by dripton on June 18, 2013 \| 120 comments
23.		LLVM 3.3 Released (llvm.org)
		143 points by dbaupp on June 18, 2013 \| 17 comments
24.		Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee (c-spanvideo.org)
		138 points by teawithcarl on June 18, 2013 \| 119 comments
25.		NSA Disruption of Stock Exchange Bomb Plot Disputed (wired.com)
		137 points by shill on June 18, 2013 \| 80 comments
26.		Bank of America whistle-blower: “We were told to lie” (salon.com)
		131 points by rpm4321 on June 18, 2013 \| 33 comments
27.		CallDay.org by StopWatchingUs: Call your representatives about NSA surveillance (callday.org)
		131 points by sinak on June 18, 2013 \| 3 comments
28.		A Popular Ad Blocker Also Helps the Ad Industry (technologyreview.com)
		129 points by bpierre on June 18, 2013 \| 103 comments
29.		Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness (ieet.org)
		122 points by bra-ket on June 18, 2013 \| 169 comments
30.		Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad (tamper.io)
		110 points by jeffd on June 18, 2013 \| 78 comments
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