HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (theguardian.com)

1688 points by sinak on Jul 31, 2013 | 612 comments

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I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

1542 points by jenniferDewalt on Jul 24, 2013 | 344 comments

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“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” (salon.com)

1310 points by gabemart on Jul 7, 2013 | 408 comments

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Do Things that Don't Scale (paulgraham.com)

1275 points by allang on Jul 14, 2013 | 207 comments

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Ubuntu Edge (indiegogo.com)

1188 points by ergo14 on Jul 22, 2013 | 378 comments

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Doug Engelbart has died (ietf.org)

1178 points by sbarre on Jul 3, 2013 | 94 comments

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Victory Lap for Ask Patents (joelonsoftware.com)

1075 points by jaydles on Jul 22, 2013 | 151 comments

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Quine Relay (github.com)

983 points by codeulike on Jul 15, 2013 | 177 comments

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Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow (wikileaks.org)

954 points by mvbrasil on Jul 1, 2013 | 483 comments

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Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online (kfor.com)

868 points by nolanbrown23 on Jul 9, 2013 | 226 comments

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Restore the Fourth (restorethefourth.net)

772 points by sethbannon on Jul 4, 2013 | 173 comments

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Forgotten Employee (2002) (sites.google.com)

747 points by bgar on Jul 23, 2013 | 291 comments

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The Drone that Killed my Grandson (nytimes.com)

708 points by dr_ on Jul 18, 2013 | 357 comments

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Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat (seriouspony.com)

682 points by _pius on Jul 29, 2013 | 203 comments

15.

Obama Promises Disappear from Web (sunlightfoundation.com)

657 points by 1337biz on Jul 26, 2013 | 162 comments

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I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume (qz.com)

643 points by Lisa2000 on Jul 12, 2013 | 376 comments

17.

Psd.rb (layervault.tumblr.com)

629 points by chamza on Jul 30, 2013 | 92 comments

18.

Lockdown (marco.org)

625 points by mh_ on Jul 3, 2013 | 217 comments

19.

The Future of Programming (worrydream.com)

614 points by rpearl on Jul 30, 2013 | 341 comments

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Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize (popularmechanics.com)

601 points by comatose_kid on Jul 11, 2013 | 95 comments

21.

The Forbidden Island (neatorama.com)

597 points by VexXtreme on Jul 19, 2013 | 278 comments

22.

A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95 (thisiscolossal.com)

596 points by tvladeck on Jul 24, 2013 | 136 comments

23.

Feds, We Need Some Time Apart (defcon.org)

587 points by rosser on Jul 11, 2013 | 250 comments

24.

Google Chromecast (google.com)

578 points by Zaheer on Jul 24, 2013 | 315 comments

25.

Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized (zeit.de)

568 points by danielhunt on Jul 1, 2013 | 72 comments

26.

Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks (linuxlock.blogspot.sg)

564 points by reactor on Jul 20, 2013 | 138 comments

27.

Ideas on how to improve customer conversion and ease of use (goodui.org)

555 points by florian95 on Jul 5, 2013 | 146 comments

28.

Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade (rt.com)

537 points by Libertatea on Jul 3, 2013 | 378 comments

29.

How Google is Killing Organic Search (blog.tutorspree.com)

535 points by akharris on Jul 1, 2013 | 209 comments

30.

Cello: Higher level programming in C (libcello.org)

535 points by mntmn on Jul 15, 2013 | 157 comments