HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant (thenextweb.com)

282 points by brokenparser on Jun 20, 2013 | 59 comments

212.

New PRISM slides say the program allows NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations (gigaom.com)

282 points by llamataboot on Jun 30, 2013 | 53 comments

213.

Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking (labs.spotify.com)

281 points by e1ven on Jun 18, 2013 | 79 comments

214.

Civil Liberties Groups Are Suing the NSA (theatlanticwire.com)

280 points by sethbannon on Jun 12, 2013 | 48 comments

215.

Ask PG: Please consider a resurrection vote for the undead amongst us

280 points by jerrya on Jun 22, 2013 | 0 comments

216.

Go read: fast Google Reader clone in AngularJS with Go on App Engine (mattjibson.com)

279 points by mjibson on Jun 27, 2013 | 119 comments

217.

Sweden warrantlessly wiretaps all Internet traffic crossing its borders (en.wikipedia.org)

279 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Jun 10, 2013 | 59 comments

218.

Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage (wuala.com)

278 points by greyman on Jun 10, 2013 | 191 comments

219.

Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link (talkingpointsmemo.com)

278 points by retr0grad3 on Jun 7, 2013 | 155 comments

220.

A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming (brython.info)

278 points by spicavigo on Jun 2, 2013 | 117 comments

221.

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) (chronicle.com)

278 points by ekm2 on Jun 8, 2013 | 57 comments

222.

Prince Of Persia Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)

278 points by glaze on Jun 21, 2013 | 30 comments

223.

“Accounts merged and now my files are gone” (productforums.google.com)

277 points by damncabbage on Jun 3, 2013 | 111 comments

224.

Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X (shortcatapp.com)

277 points by superchink on Jun 7, 2013 | 100 comments

225.

“Warning” signs at historical sites tell visitors to relax and enjoy themselves (twentytwowords.com)

277 points by vog on Jun 4, 2013 | 83 comments

226.

Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented (washingtonpost.com)

276 points by chwolfe on Jun 13, 2013 | 56 comments

227.

Facebook is Blocking Connections from Tor Network (arabcrunch.com)

275 points by ArabGeek on Jun 18, 2013 | 124 comments

228.

Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012 (bbc.co.uk)

274 points by rb2e on Jun 5, 2013 | 95 comments

229.

Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers (schneier.com)

273 points by Libertatea on Jun 10, 2013 | 39 comments

230.

The Cost of an ACL Injury (calv.info)

272 points by calvinfo on Jun 3, 2013 | 174 comments

231.

57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents (rasmussenreports.com)

272 points by 1337biz on Jun 14, 2013 | 84 comments

232.

Rewarding Edward Snowden's Courage (crowdtilt.com)

270 points by jjb123 on Jun 10, 2013 | 107 comments

233.

Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader (yoleoreader.com)

269 points by jamiebikies on Jun 5, 2013 | 184 comments

234.

IE11 to support WebGL (microsoft-news.com)

269 points by hakim on Jun 25, 2013 | 130 comments

235.

Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately (blog.torproject.org)

268 points by footpixel on Jun 18, 2013 | 52 comments

236.

How I Structure My Flask Applications (mattupstate.com)

266 points by llambda on Jun 26, 2013 | 46 comments

237.

What every web developer must know about URL encoding (blog.lunatech.com)

266 points by bemmu on Jun 24, 2013 | 35 comments

238.

You can't impress developers (baus.net)

265 points by cmbaus on Jun 2, 2013 | 163 comments

239.

How well do you know HTML? (jakearchibald.github.io)

265 points by bolshchikov on Jun 9, 2013 | 88 comments

240.

Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant (washingtonpost.com)

264 points by eplanit on Jun 21, 2013 | 54 comments