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1.

Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

1817 points by introvertmac 2016-11-09 | 2215 comments

2.

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (www.washingtonpost.com)

1604 points by nqureshi 2013-10-30 | 592 comments

3.

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see (www.washingtonpost.com)

1330 points by rbanffy 2017-11-21 | 646 comments

4.

Criticizing Google got me fired (www.washingtonpost.com)

1010 points by pyrophane 2017-08-31 | 440 comments

5.

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

997 points by donohoe 2013-06-06 | 385 comments

6.

US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules (www.washingtonpost.com)

992 points by daegloe 2017-03-23 | 441 comments

7.

The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections (www.washingtonpost.com)

901 points by blazingfrog2 2017-03-28 | 499 comments

8.

Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons (www.washingtonpost.com)

859 points by okket 2016-08-18 | 358 comments

9.

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

827 points by Libertatea 2013-06-10 | 341 comments

10.

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg (www.washingtonpost.com)

824 points by sea6ear 2018-01-03 | 514 comments

11.

Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down (www.washingtonpost.com)

819 points by ohjeez 2016-10-10 | 115 comments

12.

Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud (www.washingtonpost.com)

752 points by fmihaila 2017-08-04 | 587 comments

13.

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

749 points by o0-0o 2013-06-21 | 346 comments

14.

Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs (2016) (www.washingtonpost.com)

687 points by anythingnonidin 2017-09-19 | 367 comments

15.

FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet (www.washingtonpost.com)

679 points by jkupferman 2014-05-15 | 331 comments

16.

Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years (www.washingtonpost.com)

640 points by antr 2013-08-21 | 471 comments

17.

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos (www.washingtonpost.com)

606 points by Volscio 2013-08-05 | 230 comments

18.

How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime (www.washingtonpost.com)

602 points by rl3 2015-05-13 | 433 comments

19.

In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me (www.washingtonpost.com)

600 points by webmonkeyuk 2015-07-25 | 285 comments

20.

A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm (www.washingtonpost.com)

600 points by blueatlas 2017-11-24 | 416 comments

21.

President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey (www.washingtonpost.com)

594 points by DamnInteresting 2017-05-09 | 298 comments

22.

The nightmarish SOPA hearings (www.washingtonpost.com)

592 points by elliottcarlson 2011-12-15 | 166 comments

23.

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

588 points by 001sky 2013-12-04 | 290 comments

24.

Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps (www.washingtonpost.com)

556 points by lisper 2017-12-04 | 141 comments

25.

Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says (www.washingtonpost.com)

548 points by uptown 2019-05-06 | 494 comments

26.

Wozniak remembers Steve Jobs (www.washingtonpost.com)

537 points by flamingbuffalo 2011-10-06 | 55 comments

27.

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped NSA Its Tools Had Been Breached (www.washingtonpost.com)

537 points by tptacek 2017-10-11 | 284 comments

28.

Software patent reform just died in the House (www.washingtonpost.com)

525 points by alecco 2013-11-20 | 225 comments

29.

FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’ (www.washingtonpost.com)

519 points by icpmacdo 2015-06-04 | 319 comments

30.

Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought and won (www.washingtonpost.com)

518 points by notlob 2017-12-08 | 311 comments

31.

Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users (www.washingtonpost.com)

507 points by chrisseldo 2018-12-14 | 259 comments

32.

Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook (www.washingtonpost.com)

501 points by coloneltcb 2018-04-30 | 291 comments

33.

NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing (www.washingtonpost.com)

492 points by Jarred 2016-03-10 | 168 comments

34.

Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (www.washingtonpost.com)

486 points by Libertatea 2016-03-28 | 189 comments

35.

Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens (www.washingtonpost.com)

485 points by petethomas 2015-02-01 | 295 comments

36.

A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off (www.washingtonpost.com)

479 points by dankohn1 2017-04-10 | 524 comments

37.

Maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure (www.washingtonpost.com)

478 points by grrrtttt 2016-12-01 | 170 comments

38.

I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it (www.washingtonpost.com)

478 points by eevilspock 2017-12-07 | 389 comments

39.

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (www.washingtonpost.com)

474 points by o0-0o 2013-06-06 | 117 comments

40.

Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders (www.washingtonpost.com)

470 points by tshtf 2014-10-07 | 129 comments

41.

Left with Nothing (www.washingtonpost.com)

460 points by aviziva 2013-09-08 | 280 comments

42.

The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people (www.washingtonpost.com)

453 points by doener 2017-04-22 | 315 comments

43.

Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney (www.washingtonpost.com)

448 points by eplanit 2013-07-02 | 118 comments

44.

Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way (www.washingtonpost.com)

446 points by nkassis 2015-08-11 | 197 comments

45.

The NSA slide you haven’t seen (www.washingtonpost.com)

440 points by spikels 2013-07-10 | 188 comments

46.

Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down (www.washingtonpost.com)

439 points by zt 2014-01-17 | 125 comments

47.

Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit the paper (www.washingtonpost.com)

433 points by fmihaila 2017-11-27 | 211 comments

48.

The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden (www.washingtonpost.com)

427 points by Libertatea 2013-08-10 | 235 comments

49.

WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal (www.washingtonpost.com)

426 points by itbeho 2015-06-03 | 214 comments

50.

Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial (www.washingtonpost.com)

424 points by arunpjohny 2014-05-15 | 131 comments

51.

Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies (www.washingtonpost.com)

417 points by avyfain 2017-04-23 | 335 comments

52.

NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

416 points by glhaynes 2013-08-16 | 86 comments

53.

A newly discovered moon tunnel (www.washingtonpost.com)

416 points by hilendugo 2017-10-22 | 180 comments

54.

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment (www.washingtonpost.com)

414 points by stfu 2013-06-18 | 176 comments

55.

The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it (www.washingtonpost.com)

413 points by capote 2016-06-24 | 568 comments

56.

I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids (www.washingtonpost.com)

406 points by ALee 2017-08-24 | 372 comments

57.

Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared (www.washingtonpost.com)

405 points by uptown 2015-12-15 | 321 comments

58.

At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday (www.washingtonpost.com)

402 points by petethomas 2015-02-07 | 215 comments

59.

Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake (www.washingtonpost.com)

401 points by daegloe 2015-08-06 | 197 comments

60.

Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement (www.washingtonpost.com)

401 points by nols 2016-01-26 | 298 comments

61.

Batman's Real Story (www.washingtonpost.com)

400 points by philco 2012-03-29 | 56 comments

62.

Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle (www.washingtonpost.com)

395 points by coloneltcb 2013-10-31 | 142 comments

63.

FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme (www.washingtonpost.com)

393 points by patrickxb 2019-03-12 | 303 comments

64.

E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term (www.washingtonpost.com)

391 points by dnewms 2018-04-25 | 256 comments

65.

“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love” (www.washingtonpost.com)

389 points by pratiksaha 2015-01-23 | 254 comments

66.

NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (2013) (www.washingtonpost.com)

386 points by randomname2 2016-06-28 | 172 comments

67.

AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation (www.washingtonpost.com)

383 points by tareqak 2019-01-10 | 93 comments

68.

CDC gets list of forbidden words (www.washingtonpost.com)

382 points by js2 2017-12-16 | 159 comments

69.

Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong (www.washingtonpost.com)

382 points by paulpauper 2016-10-24 | 293 comments

70.

A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant (www.washingtonpost.com)

382 points by dlgeek 2016-05-13 | 115 comments

71.

9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics (www.washingtonpost.com)

380 points by yurisagalov 2016-04-05 | 127 comments

72.

Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems (www.washingtonpost.com)

380 points by danso 2017-01-08 | 215 comments

73.

Justice Department moves to end routine gag orders on tech firms (www.washingtonpost.com)

375 points by forapurpose 2017-11-08 | 48 comments

74.

I wanted to understand why racists hated me, so I befriended Klansmen (www.washingtonpost.com)

370 points by evo_9 2017-10-01 | 208 comments

75.

iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms (www.washingtonpost.com)

369 points by akeck 2019-05-28 | 206 comments

76.

The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers (www.washingtonpost.com)

368 points by uptown 2017-11-16 | 155 comments

77.

AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data (www.washingtonpost.com)

367 points by nvr219 2015-06-17 | 155 comments

78.

A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest (www.washingtonpost.com)

365 points by mrb 2017-04-07 | 159 comments

79.

Study shows massive insect loss (www.washingtonpost.com)

364 points by pgrote 2018-10-15 | 185 comments

80.

America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems (www.washingtonpost.com)

363 points by Jerry2 2016-07-30 | 113 comments

81.

Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek (www.washingtonpost.com)

362 points by djacobs 2016-08-26 | 284 comments

82.

Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors (www.washingtonpost.com)

355 points by M_Grey 2016-10-13 | 318 comments

83.

Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30 (www.washingtonpost.com)

354 points by ilamont 2013-04-26 | 241 comments

84.

You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created (www.washingtonpost.com)

352 points by Libertatea 2014-12-12 | 251 comments

85.

Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes (www.washingtonpost.com)

349 points by llambda 2012-02-19 | 254 comments

86.

Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 years (www.washingtonpost.com)

349 points by Mz 2017-08-29 | 209 comments

87.

The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014) (www.washingtonpost.com)

348 points by makwarth 2017-02-05 | 226 comments

88.

Just how smart is an octopus? (www.washingtonpost.com)

348 points by Petiver 2017-01-09 | 312 comments

89.

China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works (www.washingtonpost.com)

345 points by molecule 2016-05-24 | 299 comments

90.

Scenes from a militarized America (www.washingtonpost.com)

344 points by jamesbritt 2014-02-04 | 98 comments

91.

Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices (www.washingtonpost.com)

343 points by kelukelugames 2017-08-24 | 246 comments

92.

Apple becomes the first $1T company (www.washingtonpost.com)

339 points by fmihaila 2018-08-02 | 338 comments

93.

FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000 (www.washingtonpost.com)

338 points by protomyth 2015-04-18 | 78 comments

94.

For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people (www.washingtonpost.com)

338 points by rutenspitz 2018-10-27 | 159 comments

95.

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking (www.washingtonpost.com)

337 points by mikecane 2013-12-11 | 173 comments

96.

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program (www.washingtonpost.com)

334 points by hermanywong 2013-06-29 | 86 comments

97.

Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (www.washingtonpost.com)

332 points by Libertatea 2013-08-07 | 246 comments

98.

Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started (www.washingtonpost.com)

329 points by tptacek 2013-10-09 | 124 comments

99.

Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread (www.washingtonpost.com)

328 points by howard941 2019-03-30 | 167 comments

100.

Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI (www.washingtonpost.com)

328 points by Libertatea 2016-03-30 | 239 comments

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