HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

This is a web page (justinjackson.ca)

1354 points by mijustin on Jun 20, 2013 | 420 comments

2.

NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor (blog.sfgate.com)

1268 points by gridscomputing on Jun 10, 2013 | 327 comments

3.

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance (guardian.co.uk)

1254 points by grey-area on Jun 9, 2013 | 293 comments

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Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (eff.org)

1227 points by FlemishBeeCycle on Jun 6, 2013 | 444 comments

5.

Project Loon (google.com)

1094 points by sabalaba on Jun 15, 2013 | 286 comments

6.

What is Happening in Istanbul? (defnesumanblogs.com)

1007 points by bencevans on Jun 2, 2013 | 485 comments

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US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program (washingtonpost.com)

997 points by donohoe on Jun 6, 2013 | 385 comments

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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants (news.cnet.com)

834 points by declan on Jun 15, 2013 | 389 comments

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Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum? (washingtonpost.com)

827 points by Libertatea on Jun 10, 2013 | 341 comments

10.

Cowards (uncrunched.com)

793 points by kevinwmerritt on Jun 8, 2013 | 225 comments

11.

Ultimate Tic Tac Toe (mathwithbaddrawings.com)

786 points by sid6376 on Jun 18, 2013 | 123 comments

12.

Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors (eff.org)

754 points by teawithcarl on Jun 27, 2013 | 36 comments

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U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage (washingtonpost.com)

749 points by o0-0o on Jun 21, 2013 | 346 comments

14.

Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

748 points by _wk3u on Jun 9, 2013 | 179 comments

15.

Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

737 points by kanzure on Jun 1, 2013 | 328 comments

16.

Are coders worth it? (aeonmagazine.com)

730 points by Libertatea on Jun 6, 2013 | 305 comments

17.

Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef (gq.com)

728 points by Mithrandir on Jun 4, 2013 | 101 comments

18.

Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police (abclocal.go.com)

726 points by ajg1977 on Jun 1, 2013 | 288 comments

19.

Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data (googleblog.blogspot.com)

717 points by Lightning on Jun 11, 2013 | 182 comments

20.

Larry Page addresses PRISM (googleblog.blogspot.com)

715 points by raldi on Jun 7, 2013 | 441 comments

21.

Hexagonal grids for games (redblobgames.com)

709 points by ayx on Jun 2, 2013 | 69 comments

22.

Making the web fun again (neocities.org)

706 points by kyledrake on Jun 28, 2013 | 232 comments

23.

The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important (gigaom.com)

683 points by cdooh on Jun 6, 2013 | 65 comments

24.

Abandoned island in the middle of NYC (backspac.es)

675 points by zmitri on Jun 24, 2013 | 108 comments

25.

Mac Pro (apple.com)

664 points by salimmadjd on Jun 10, 2013 | 500 comments

26.

HTML5 Genetic Cars (rednuht.org)

664 points by jmduke on Jun 25, 2013 | 169 comments

27.

iOS 7 (mattgemmell.com)

648 points by llambda on Jun 12, 2013 | 278 comments

28.

Seriously.js (seriouslyjs.org)

643 points by Aissen on Jun 5, 2013 | 181 comments

29.

The Strange Case of Barrett Brown (thenation.com)

643 points by dlss on Jun 27, 2013 | 177 comments

30.

German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages (translate.google.com)

642 points by Navarr on Jun 11, 2013 | 246 comments