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1. NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules (theguardian.com)
748 points by ferrellw on Dec 16, 2013 | 231 comments
2. A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (moertel.com)
571 points by acqq on Dec 16, 2013 | 143 comments
3. If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet (theatlantic.com)
480 points by gabriel34 on Dec 16, 2013 | 354 comments
4. NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses" (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
372 points by mzarate06 on Dec 16, 2013 | 171 comments
5. Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash (thenation.com)
331 points by pain_perdu on Dec 16, 2013 | 92 comments
6. RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A (rethinkdb.com)
299 points by coffeemug on Dec 16, 2013 | 126 comments
7. Telegram - secure, free messaging (telegram.org)
278 points by macalicious on Dec 16, 2013 | 219 comments
8. Water seems to flow freely on Mars (nature.com)
275 points by cryptoz on Dec 16, 2013 | 161 comments
9. Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT (arstechnica.com)
273 points by indy on Dec 16, 2013 | 71 comments
10. The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (linkedin.com)
271 points by boredandroid on Dec 16, 2013 | 17 comments
11. Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data (nytimes.com)
267 points by brnstz on Dec 16, 2013 | 3 comments
12. My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS (vertis.io)
223 points by vertis on Dec 16, 2013 | 120 comments
13. Amazon's German Workers Strike (reuters.com)
203 points by Varcht on Dec 16, 2013 | 334 comments
14. Mozilla in 2013 (blog.mozilla.org)
188 points by robin_reala on Dec 16, 2013 | 81 comments
15. Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n) (github.com/nominolo)
175 points by _ks3e on Dec 16, 2013 | 90 comments
16. Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers (theatlantic.com)
170 points by wellpast on Dec 16, 2013 | 96 comments
17. BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS (whispersystems.org)
163 points by chilgart on Dec 16, 2013 | 49 comments
18. The end of the Facebook era (takeaswig.com)
153 points by chrysb on Dec 16, 2013 | 135 comments
19. Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more (developereconomics.com)
146 points by MatosKap on Dec 16, 2013 | 92 comments
20. FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks (usatoday.com)
143 points by brianmartinek on Dec 16, 2013 | 66 comments
21. Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte (igvita.com)
131 points by igrigorik on Dec 16, 2013 | 12 comments
22. Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas (boingboing.net)
126 points by cdvonstinkpot on Dec 16, 2013 | 64 comments
23. First, Let's Fire All The Managers (harvardbusiness.org)
118 points by vellum on Dec 16, 2013 | 79 comments
24. Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals Problem (nonchalantrepreneur.com)
117 points by rmason on Dec 16, 2013 | 81 comments
25. Child Donated His Piggy Bank to NASA Got a Call From an Astronaut (theatlantic.com)
115 points by RichardCM on Dec 16, 2013 | 33 comments
26. eBay remote code execution (secalert.net)
116 points by knorc on Dec 16, 2013 | 15 comments
27. Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern world (theguardian.com)
111 points by auggierose on Dec 16, 2013 | 45 comments
28. I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam (vice.com)
106 points by fvrghl on Dec 16, 2013 | 138 comments
29. Watsi Lands $1.5M Donation From Humble Bundle (thenextweb.com)
99 points by minimaxir on Dec 16, 2013 | 20 comments
30. Why It’s a Good Idea to Be a JavaScript Developer, and What it Takes to Be One (clientcide.com)
87 points by seyz on Dec 16, 2013 | 103 comments

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