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1.The Criminalization of Everyday Life (tomdispatch.com)
482 points by mankypro on Dec 10, 2013 | 337 comments
2.“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say (arstechnica.com)
348 points by robin_reala on Dec 10, 2013 | 176 comments
3.Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server (github.com/joewalnes)
311 points by adito on Dec 10, 2013 | 88 comments
4.Firefox 26 is released (mozilla.org)
305 points by lambda_cube on Dec 10, 2013 | 200 comments
5.New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus (arstechnica.com)
289 points by Eye_of_Mordor on Dec 10, 2013 | 124 comments
6.Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online (github.com/fogleman)
287 points by fogleman on Dec 10, 2013 | 149 comments
7.Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data (aclu.org)
278 points by G5ANDY on Dec 10, 2013 | 107 comments
8.Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm (iangreenleaf.com)
278 points by est on Dec 10, 2013 | 131 comments
9.Linear algebra tutorial in four pages (minireference.com)
256 points by ivansavz on Dec 10, 2013 | 111 comments
10.Doom released 20 years ago today (wikipedia.org)
256 points by timmillwood on Dec 10, 2013 | 108 comments
11.Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram (nature.com)
252 points by ForHackernews on Dec 10, 2013 | 134 comments
12.EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th (eff.org)
252 points by yincrash on Dec 10, 2013 | 23 comments
13.Cars Kill Cities (progressivetransit.wordpress.com)
189 points by Jakob on Dec 10, 2013 | 217 comments
14.Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals (theguardian.com)
194 points by nkurz on Dec 10, 2013 | 78 comments
15.Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Download It Right Now (slate.com)
162 points by antr on Dec 10, 2013 | 93 comments
16.Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses (cornubot.se)
159 points by SuperChihuahua on Dec 10, 2013 | 87 comments
17.The Redis criticism thread (antirez.com)
152 points by HeyChinaski on Dec 10, 2013 | 44 comments

Wow. Thanks for the unexpected post & votes here, HN buddies. This community is an ongoing inspiration.
19.Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
160 points by tagabek on Dec 10, 2013 | 163 comments
20.Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool (tip4commit.com)
149 points by sashazykov on Dec 10, 2013 | 111 comments
21.Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs (thegenesisblock.com)
140 points by CrunchyJams on Dec 10, 2013 | 22 comments
22.The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat (rollingstone.com)
130 points by jjxavier on Dec 10, 2013 | 210 comments
23.Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health (slate.com)
127 points by golfstrom on Dec 10, 2013 | 138 comments
24.The AeroFS Private Cloud (aerofs.com)
127 points by yurisagalov on Dec 10, 2013 | 66 comments
25.Academia.edu slammed with takedown notices from Elsevier (venturebeat.com)
123 points by alecco on Dec 10, 2013 | 47 comments
26.Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner (cnet.com)
122 points by tanglesome on Dec 10, 2013 | 60 comments
27.Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem (wired.com)
115 points by adventured on Dec 10, 2013 | 39 comments
28.Google Data centers (google.com)
119 points by blearyeyed on Dec 10, 2013 | 55 comments
29.Server-generated JavaScript responses (37signals.com)
122 points by steveklabnik on Dec 10, 2013 | 96 comments

I wish people would move beyond 1984 and quote more Foucault's Discipline & Punishment [1]. There is a much deeper-rooted problem in society than mass surveillance or militarization of police. It's the question of why we all let this happen without any resistance. We accept and welcome our controllers. Foucault wrote about the effects of prisoner mindset in society in the 1960-70s. Our subjugation and tolerance to authoritarianism is very widespread and not limited to just police.

We're not just afraid to be anti-authoritative, we're institutionalized since our birth in schools and the concept of control is in embedded in every aspect of life (such as in language found in politics, school work, or newspapers).

Mass-surveillance is just a more direct implementation of "panopticon" [2] applied to everyday life, existing at all times. Having committed a crime is no longer the requirement to be imprisoned, whether physically or mentally.

http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Punish-Birth-Prison-Vintage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon


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