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1.		US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program (washingtonpost.com)
		410 points by donohoe 2 hours ago \| 220 comments
2.		The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important (gigaom.com)
		137 points by cdooh 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
3.		NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (washingtonpost.com)
		161 points by o0-0o 2 hours ago \| 47 comments
4.		New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line (newsdiffs.org)
		61 points by slapshot 32 minutes ago \| 9 comments
5.		Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it (denverpost.com)
		64 points by lawnchair_larry 1 hour ago \| 7 comments
6.		President Obama’s Dragnet (nytimes.com)
		226 points by forgotAgain 3 hours ago \| 65 comments
7.		NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012) (forbes.com)
		214 points by mitchelllc 4 hours ago \| 49 comments
8.		Donate to the EFF (eff.org)
		179 points by il 1 hour ago \| 18 comments
9.		Google, Apple and Facebook Deny Participating In Alleged NSA “PRISM” Program (marketingland.com)
		31 points by rasterizer 1 hour ago \| 15 comments
10.		Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago (core77.com)
		66 points by chrbutler 2 hours ago \| 12 comments
11.		NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’ (washingtonpost.com)
		24 points by tigger 50 minutes ago \| 5 comments
12.		Premature optimization (samaltman.com)
		26 points by jordn 1 hour ago \| 1 comment
13.		Facebook Denies Giving NSA Direct Access To Its Servers (forbes.com)
		24 points by _pius 1 hour ago \| 3 comments
14.		NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers (wsj.com)
		10 points by rasterizer 19 minutes ago \| discuss
15.		Government Phone Surveillance for Dummies (theatlantic.com)
		9 points by gridscomputing 18 minutes ago \| discuss
16.		Stellar Wind (code name) (wikipedia.org)
		359 points by bascule 10 hours ago \| 149 comments
17.		Accumulo: NSA's Apache-licensed BigTable-based key-value store (wikipedia.org)
		32 points by gojomo 2 hours ago \| 2 comments
18.		Are coders worth it? (aeonmagazine.com)
		579 points by Libertatea 14 hours ago \| 261 comments
19.		Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (eff.org)
		1019 points by FlemishBeeCycle 19 hours ago \| 405 comments
20.		Kickstarter wants less risk and more consistent fundraising success (mashable.com)
		6 points by cloudgeek 21 minutes ago \| 1 comment
21.		Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake (etanzapinsky.com)
		223 points by etanz 10 hours ago \| 111 comments
22.		Hetzner Servers Compromised (hetzner.de)
		160 points by martindale 9 hours ago \| 113 comments
23.		The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal (influencehacks.com)
		5 points by il 15 minutes ago \| discuss
24.		EasyPost (YC S13) Sees Transactions Doubling Every Month (techcrunch.com)
		37 points by jstreebin 4 hours ago \| 10 comments
25.		There Was a Time before Mathematica (stephenwolfram.com)
		56 points by nswanberg 5 hours ago \| 16 comments
26.		Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles (anandtech.com)
		38 points by glasshead969 4 hours ago \| 4 comments
27.		Four-star general in eye of U.S. cyber storm (reuters.com)
		73 points by forgotAgain 6 hours ago \| 40 comments
28.		The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest (thomasbacklund.com)
		148 points by alexholehouse 10 hours ago \| 75 comments
29.		U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls (nytimes.com)
		470 points by zt 19 hours ago \| 97 comments
30.		Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorrectly (plover.net)
		156 points by Leepic 11 hours ago \| 113 comments
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