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1.		Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us (medium.com/surveillance-state)
		407 points by mh_ on June 29, 2013 \| 218 comments
2.		15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand (extremetech.com)
		386 points by evo_9 on June 29, 2013 \| 121 comments
3.		NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (washingtonpost.com)
		334 points by hermanywong on June 29, 2013 \| 86 comments
4.		U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks (yahoo.com)
		317 points by 1337biz on June 29, 2013 \| 123 comments
5.		Papers and essays that every programmer should be aware of (projectmona.com)
		219 points by sbspalding on June 29, 2013 \| 50 comments
6.		Freedom: The Big American Lie (faz.net)
		169 points by Riesling on June 29, 2013 \| 105 comments
7.		Console.image - Images in Chrome Dev tools (github.com/dunxrion)
		116 points by adriancooney on June 29, 2013 \| 24 comments
8.		A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur (bazqux.com)
		112 points by Rickasaurus on June 29, 2013 \| 46 comments
9.		Anatomy of a Compiler Bug (mikeash.com)
		112 points by nealyoung on June 29, 2013 \| 20 comments
10.		What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter (newyorker.com)
		111 points by vinhnx on June 29, 2013 \| 21 comments
11.		“Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson (leanpub.com)
		100 points by mark_l_watson on June 29, 2013 \| 41 comments
12.		The Future of Computing - An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz" Matsumoto (fredwu.me)
		94 points by fredwu on June 29, 2013 \| 25 comments
13.		The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java [video] (marakana.com)
		93 points by javinpaul on June 29, 2013 \| 86 comments
14.		Large-scale quantum chip validated (usc.edu)
		87 points by scotty79 on June 29, 2013 \| 36 comments
15.		Ask HN: What is your experience making a free service completely paid?
		87 points by tluyben2 on June 29, 2013 \| 42 comments
16.		Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for U.Va. student (timesdispatch.com)
		80 points by harold on June 29, 2013 \| 43 comments
17.		License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers (cryptogon.com)
		80 points by joshuaellinger on June 29, 2013 \| 47 comments
18.		Python-Based Tools for the Space Science Community (lanl.gov)
		76 points by neokya on June 29, 2013 \| 28 comments
19.		Free Speech Zone (wikipedia.org)
		70 points by scrrr on June 29, 2013 \| 22 comments
20.		Wi-Vi: See Through Walls with Wi-Fi Signals (csail.mit.edu)
		68 points by WestCoastJustin on June 29, 2013 \| 22 comments
21.		Hollywood’s role in shaping public views on mass surveillance (slashgeek.net)
		64 points by pavs on June 29, 2013 \| 30 comments
22.		NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again (nytimes.com)
		64 points by GabrielF00 on June 29, 2013 \| 68 comments
23.		The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out (nytimes.com)
		61 points by wallflower on June 29, 2013 \| 94 comments
24.		How Aziz Ansari Tests Jokes With Analytics (fastcolabs.com)
		57 points by mankins on June 29, 2013 \| 12 comments
25.		The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (1991) (eff.org)
		57 points by 6a68 on June 29, 2013 \| 11 comments
26.		The 10 Megabyte Manifesto (10mbmanifesto.neocities.org)
		54 points by daturkel on June 29, 2013 \| 37 comments
27.		How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on (extremetech.com)
		54 points by michmaz on June 29, 2013 \| 15 comments
28.		Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by Libertatea on June 29, 2013 \| 10 comments
29.		A Difficult Month - Post Mortem (iron.io)
		57 points by rubikscube on June 29, 2013 \| 5 comments
30.		How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins (arstechnica.com)
		52 points by sk2code on June 29, 2013 \| 51 comments
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