Hacker News on 16 December 2013

• NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
• A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack
• If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
• NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
• Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash
• RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A
• Telegram - secure, free messaging
• Water seems to flow freely on Mars
• Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT
• The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction