top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-12-10

The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/3984226/12_15

11 years ago

383 upvotes – 94 comments

Rust 1.5

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/12/10/Rust-1.5.html

11 years ago

342 upvotes – 149 comments

Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game

http://jacquesmattheij.com/volkswagen-and-the-blame-the-engineer-game

11 years ago

312 upvotes – 293 comments

April Zero v3

http://aprilzero.com/2015/12/9/

11 years ago

303 upvotes – 93 comments

Atlassian gets IPO share price of $27

http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-gets-ipo-share-price-2015-12?op=1

11 years ago

285 upvotes – 149 comments

Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

http://europeremotely.com/2015/12/10/issue-8.html

11 years ago

279 upvotes – 154 comments

New Style of Police Training Aims to Produce Guardians, Not Warriors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/12/10/new-style-of-police-training-aims-to-produce-guardians-not-warriors/

11 years ago

278 upvotes – 210 comments

Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/government-can-you-hear-me-now-cell-site-simulators-arent-secret-anymore

11 years ago

262 upvotes – 87 comments

No Matter What the FBI Says, Compromising Encryption Is a Technical Issue

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/no-matter-what-fbi-says-compromising-encryption-technical-issue

11 years ago

245 upvotes – 93 comments

Don't bother creating a mobile app

https://medium.com/inside-birdly/why-you-shouldn-t-bother-creating-a-mobile-app-328af62fe0e5#.1io8bq45r

11 years ago

242 upvotes – 175 comments

Japanese government dismantles freedom of the press

https://freedom.press/blog/2015/12/preparation-join-us-wars-japan-dismantles-freedom-press

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 110 comments

Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS

https://developer.washingtonpost.com/pb/blog/post/2015/12/10/moving-the-washington-post-to-https/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 106 comments

How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/

11 years ago

208 upvotes – 75 comments

What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner

http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/what-your-microbiome-wants-for-dinner

11 years ago

204 upvotes – 97 comments

YC Open Office Hours

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours

11 years ago

200 upvotes – 86 comments

Facebook to open-source AI hardware design

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to-open-source-ai-hardware-design/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 59 comments

A first for physics: Fundamental quantum physics problem proved unsolvable

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7581/full/nature16059.html

11 years ago

193 upvotes – 62 comments

Cursive, an IDE for Clojure and ClojureScript, has reached 1.0

https://cursive-ide.com/articles/cursive-1.0.html

11 years ago

192 upvotes – 50 comments

Creatures avoiding planks

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/05/07/creatures-avoiding-planks/

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 22 comments

Django CMS 3.2 released

http://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2015/11/24/django-cms-32/

11 years ago

180 upvotes – 92 comments

Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

11 years ago

157 upvotes – 35 comments

Whatever happened to Channel 1?

http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Trivia/Channel%20One/Channel_1.htm

11 years ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Report: Microsoft the top-selling tablet maker based on online sales in October

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/114316/20151209/microsoft-surface-overtakes-apple-s-ipad-as-top-selling-tablet-online.htm

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: A few years ago my Type'o'Shooter went viral – here's the new version

http://zty.pe/?hn

11 years ago

143 upvotes – 38 comments

The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/the-pixel-cs-bumpy-road-from-chrome-os-concept-to-android-adoptee/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 48 comments

Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (1998)

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

11 years ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

Stack and Nix = portable reproducible builds

http://www.tweag.io/blog/stack-nix-portable-reproducible-builds

11 years ago

135 upvotes – 18 comments

Omnisharp – Tools and extensions to work with C# in any editor

http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/bring-net-development-into-your-favourite-editor-with-omnisharp/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 36 comments

Class of 2016: Whose works will enter the public domain

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2016/

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 72 comments

Walmart Pay

http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2015/12/10/walmart-introduces-walmart-pay

11 years ago

129 upvotes – 246 comments

State of U.S. Salaries Report [pdf]

http://get.hired.com/rs/348-IPO-044/images/Hired-State-of-Salaries.pdf

11 years ago

127 upvotes – 94 comments

new TLD: .BOT

http://nic.bot/

11 years ago

123 upvotes – 70 comments

Ubuntu 16.04 – Online searches in the dash to be off by default

http://www.whizzy.org/2015/12/online-searches-in-the-dash-to-be-off-by-default/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 47 comments

Atlassian Sets Its I.P.O. at $21

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/business/dealbook/atlassian-sets-its-ipo-at-21.html

11 years ago

109 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

http://swifty-app.com/

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

‘Serial’ Season 2 Lets Bowe Bergdahl Tell His Side of Afghan Story

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/business/media/serial-season-2-bowe-bergdahl-recalls-his-afghan-odyssey.html

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 53 comments

How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/10/food-industry-michael-moss

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 126 comments

Google Begins Rolling Out Google Play Music Family Plan

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/09/google-begins-rolling-out-google-play-music-family-plan-14-99-for-up-to-6-people/

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 108 comments

Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-lecture_en.html

11 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

A Dead PC Game That Can't Come Back

http://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back-1688358811

11 years ago

97 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Lescript – Simple PHP client library for Let's encrypt

https://github.com/analogic/lescript

11 years ago

★ 226 PHP MIT
96 upvotes – 68 comments

Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

Link rot and redirect madness

http://donmelton.com/2015/12/09/link-rot-and-redirect-madness/

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 53 comments

Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 released in OpenSSL 1.1.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/304

11 years ago

★ 30k C Apache-2.0
91 upvotes – 22 comments

A Practical Cryptanalysis of the Telegram Messaging Protocol [pdf]

http://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 3 comments

Bank account verification and transfers in just a few lines of code

http://blog.dwolla.com/bank-account-verification-and-transfers-in-just-a-few-lines-of-code/

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 39 comments

Warehouses – Load Your Analytics Data into Redshift and Postgres

https://segment.com/warehouses

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

FBI director says companies should ditch encryption

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/10/fbi-director-calls-for-encryption-end

11 years ago

83 upvotes – 52 comments

Can Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Fend Off Her Critics?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-10/can-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-fend-off-her-critics-

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 59 comments

A neuroscientist had his brain scanned for a year and a half

http://priceonomics.com/the-first-quantified-brain/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 56 comments

JetBrains redesigned their website and logos

https://www.jetbrains.com/

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 71 comments

The 40% Rule: A Navy SEAL’s Secret to Mental Toughness

http://thehustle.co/40-percent-rule-navy-seal-secret-mental-toughness

11 years ago

77 upvotes – 72 comments

$15 Pine A64 is trying to be a faster, 64-bit Raspberry Pi

http://www.geek.com/chips/15-pine-a64-is-trying-to-be-a-faster-64-bit-raspberry-pi-1641789/

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 37 comments

How to rescue people from deep poverty, and why the best methods work

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21679812-how-rescue-people-deep-povertyand-why-best-methods-work-leaving-it-behind

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 41 comments

Canada 150 Typeface

http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1445028439342

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

What to do when employees quit

https://www.groovehq.com/blog/what-to-do-when-employees-quit

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 55 comments

Tell HN: I spend so much time solving problems I feel like giving up

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713625

11 years ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

First language influences brain for later language-learning

http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/first-language-wires-brain-later-language-learning-257068

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: Decentralised Twitter – Microblogging on the Ethereum Blockchain

https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet

11 years ago

★ 573 Go GPL-3.0
63 upvotes – 19 comments

Suleiman the Magnificent's tomb believed to have been found in Hungary

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/09/suleiman-the-magnificent-tomb-hungary

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 47 comments

WP Engine Security Breach: Customer Credentials Exposed

https://wpengine.com/support/infosec/

11 years ago

62 upvotes – 27 comments

The environment that OSS developers work in

https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/398

11 years ago

★ 2.8k Julia MIT
61 upvotes – 21 comments

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design (2014) [pdf]

http://www.dice.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Introduction_to_Data-Oriented_Design.pdf

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

I went to help at Calais’s Jungle refugee camp – and what I saw haunts me

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/10/calais-jungle-refugee-camp-volunteer-conditions

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments
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