HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Amazon Prime Air (amazon.com)

1412 points by wyclif on Dec 2, 2013 | 588 comments

2.

Explain Shell (explainshell.com)

1372 points by auton1 on Dec 2, 2013 | 171 comments

3.

What I Didn't Say (paulgraham.com)

1289 points by twampss on Dec 30, 2013 | 567 comments

4.

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies (bbc.co.uk)

1137 points by antr on Dec 5, 2013 | 341 comments

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Trevor Perrin requests removal of NSA from IETF Crypto Review (ietf.org)

1056 points by tptacek on Dec 20, 2013 | 140 comments

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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on (theguardian.com)

910 points by nsns on Dec 29, 2013 | 475 comments

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Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer (reuters.com)

899 points by bbatsell on Dec 20, 2013 | 320 comments

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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System (theatlantic.com)

834 points by ilamont on Dec 17, 2013 | 472 comments

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Google Acquires Boston Dynamics (nytimes.com)

799 points by dshankar on Dec 14, 2013 | 291 comments

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NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules (theguardian.com)

748 points by ferrellw on Dec 16, 2013 | 231 comments

11.

Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa (redditgifts.com)

745 points by rb2e on Dec 19, 2013 | 226 comments

12.

An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

738 points by olivercameron on Dec 10, 2013 | 154 comments

13.

I found Prezi's source code (blog.shubh.am)

712 points by psychboo on Dec 3, 2013 | 255 comments

14.

My Roommate's a Genius (farhadg.com)

697 points by FarhadG on Dec 3, 2013 | 174 comments

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Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished (m.washingtonpost.com)

687 points by uptown on Dec 24, 2013 | 201 comments

16.

What the Fluck (bbc.co.uk)

685 points by dredmorbius on Dec 6, 2013 | 159 comments

17.

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? (mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk)

663 points by cryptoz on Dec 12, 2013 | 322 comments

18.

Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins

658 points by mgrunin on Dec 18, 2013 | 475 comments

19.

Reform Government Surveillance (reformgovernmentsurveillance.com)

657 points by raldi on Dec 9, 2013 | 212 comments

20.

Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data (gmailblog.blogspot.com)

628 points by uptown on Dec 5, 2013 | 169 comments

21.

Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers (arstechnica.com)

601 points by shawndumas on Dec 12, 2013 | 311 comments

22.

Valve joins the Linux Foundation (thenextweb.com)

593 points by kwestro on Dec 4, 2013 | 290 comments

23.

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)

588 points by 001sky on Dec 4, 2013 | 290 comments

24.

OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again (sivers.org)

578 points by revorad on Dec 9, 2013 | 63 comments

25.

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (blog.moertel.com)

571 points by acqq on Dec 16, 2013 | 143 comments

26.

Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing (bbc.co.uk)

569 points by louthy on Dec 24, 2013 | 154 comments

27.

About Python 3 (alexgaynor.net)

564 points by jnoller on Dec 30, 2013 | 345 comments

28.

The Future of JavaScript MVCs (swannodette.github.io)

564 points by swannodette on Dec 19, 2013 | 156 comments

29.

The microhydro plant (ludens.cl)

557 points by makmonty on Dec 12, 2013 | 116 comments

30.

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality (wired.com)

554 points by joseflavio on Dec 29, 2013 | 262 comments