top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-02

Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1

http://telecom.kz/en/news/view/18729

11 years ago

803 upvotes – 361 comments

How to be like Steve Ballmer

https://medium.com/@drb/how-to-be-like-steve-ballmer-cf4c9803d74c#.xfttmyket

11 years ago

763 upvotes – 188 comments

Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit

http://henrycountyreport.com/blog/2015/12/01/leaked-documents-reveal-dothan-police-department-planted-drugs-on-young-black-men-for-years-district-attorney-doug-valeska-complicit/

11 years ago

579 upvotes – 252 comments

Signal Desktop

https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/

11 years ago

555 upvotes – 279 comments

The 99% (of startups)

http://justinkan.com/the-99-percent

11 years ago

532 upvotes – 167 comments

PHP 7 Released

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-7.0.0

11 years ago

★ 40k C BSD-3-Clause
449 upvotes – 307 comments

Jury Duty

https://medium.com/@jurornumber5/jury-duty-b354a53f126e

11 years ago

378 upvotes – 215 comments

Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

11 years ago

330 upvotes – 165 comments

Django 1.9 Released

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/dec/01/django-19-released/

11 years ago

269 upvotes – 88 comments

Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/12/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-changes-the-way-applications-understand-images.html

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 73 comments

Google sheep view

http://www.googlesheepview.com/

11 years ago

251 upvotes – 76 comments

The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/02/the-anonymous-silicon-valley-satire-that-has-stumped-tech-world-insiders/

11 years ago

213 upvotes – 124 comments

What Is Spacetime, Really?

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/

11 years ago

207 upvotes – 120 comments

Rob Pike: Simplicity Is Complicated [video]

http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/11/rob-pike-simplicity-is-complicated

11 years ago

168 upvotes – 147 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Setup

http://davidmaitland.me/2015/12/raspberry-pi-zero-headless-setup/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 43 comments

Chennai floods: The Hindu not published for first time since 1878

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34981328

11 years ago

156 upvotes – 25 comments

IncludeOS: C++ unikernel now free and open source

https://github.com/hioa-cs/IncludeOS

11 years ago

★ 5.2k C++ Apache-2.0
136 upvotes – 41 comments

The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/02/world/The-Marshall-Islands-Are-Disappearing.html

11 years ago

132 upvotes – 152 comments

Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of teenage Haruki Murakami is leaked

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/librarians-in-uproar-after-borrowing-record-of-haruki-murakami-is-leaked

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 64 comments

337 whales dead in Chile in one of history's biggest beachings

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/01/chile-337-whales-beached-stranding

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 45 comments

The Pip

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

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 24 comments

Yahoo Board to Weigh Potential Sale of Internet Business, Sources Say

http://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-board-to-weigh-potential-sale-of-internet-business-sources-say-1449015461

11 years ago

118 upvotes – 135 comments

Study: Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12027265/Type-2-diabetes-can-be-cured-through-weight-loss-Newcastle-University-finds.html

11 years ago

117 upvotes – 169 comments

Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper

http://global.epson.com/newsroom/2015/news_20151201.html

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

From Word to Markdown to InDesign: Fully Automated Typesetting Using Pandoc

http://rhythmus.be/md2indd/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System

http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/

11 years ago

104 upvotes – 43 comments

A/B Testing, from scratch

http://www.alfredo.motta.name/ab-testing-from-scratch/

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 14 comments

What’s new in curl

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/12/02/whats-new-in-curl/

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 7 comments

What happens when the Board of Directors begins to panic?

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-happens-when-the-board-of-directors-begins-to-panic

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

My Life as a Robot

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/my-life-as-a-robot-double-robotics-telecommuting-longread/

11 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Algorithms, Etc

http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/

11 years ago

81 upvotes – 5 comments

Ask HN: Wouldn't a “Who is hiring” thread requiring a salary range be nice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660440

11 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Compile OCaml to JavaScript, Run on Node

http://hyegar.com/blog/2015/11/05/write-ocaml,-run-on-nodejs/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 23 comments

A social networking site is not an open access repository

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=sm_tw

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

AI service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/

11 years ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

CoreOS brings end-to-end trusted computing to containers

http://www.zdnet.com/article/coreos-brings-end-to-end-trusted-computing-to-containers/

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 44 comments

Music programming language Alda gets new features

http://daveyarwood.github.io/alda/2015/11/28/alda-has-a-bunch-of-new-features/

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 14 comments

Splitting Equity Among Founders

http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/splitting-equity-among-founders/

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments
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