919
140
Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
https://www.crypto101.io/
10 years ago
812
481
Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/503985473/uber-now-tracks-passengers-locations-even-after-theyre-dropped-off
716
101
Htop explained
https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
453
107
I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/cuban-telephone-fraud/509006/?single_page=true
439
241
Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/canadian-journalists-detention-at-us-border-raises-press-freedom-alarms.html
346
80
Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
http://200ok.ch/jq-my-new-favorite-tool-to-work-with-json-on-the-command-line/index.html
323
114
One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people
http://onedollarglasses.org
322
134
Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38173287
290
97
Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
https://states-language.net/spec.html
285
29
Redis 4.0 RC1 is out
http://www.antirez.com/news/110
283
72
Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
282
131
Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-11-30/confessions-of-an-instagram-influencer
256
70
Reflections on Rusting Trust
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-rusting-trust/
232
47
Codebase Refactoring with Go
https://talks.golang.org/2016/refactor.article
227
98
I am an investor in The Style Club. Or, at least, I thought I was
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mark-cuban-shark-tank-got-royally-screwed-howard-marks
205
108
Researchers may have ‘found’ many of China’s 30M missing girls
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30/researchers-may-have-found-many-of-chinas-30-million-missing-girls/?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.0b9d69013c87
203
129
Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/facebook-bsdetector-plugin-blocked/
66
Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
https://blog.pusher.com/golangs-real-time-gc-in-theory-and-practice/
197
128
InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces
http://infernojs.org/
191
83
New York City mapped its trees and calculated each one’s economic benefits
http://www.archdaily.com/800157/new-york-city-mapped-all-of-its-trees-and-calculated-the-economic-benefits-of-every-single-one
189
82
Listen to Your Customers, They’ll Tell You What to Build
http://blog.tailwindapp.com/listen-to-your-customers-and-theyll-tell-you-what-to-build/
179
State of Startups
http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2016/
175
362
Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative
https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/homeschooling-as-a-right-and-a-practical-alternative/
57
Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with 4 or 6
http://seclists.org/nanog/2016/Dec/29
159
89
UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/investigatory-powers-bill-a7447781.html
158
103
PHP 7.1.0 Released
http://php.net/archive/2016.php#id2016-12-01-3
154
35
Serverless Comparison: Zappa vs. Chalice
https://blog.zappa.io/posts/comparison-zappa-verus-chalice
152
106
A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/health/hallucinogenic-mushrooms-psilocybin-cancer-anxiety-depression.html
146
South Korea Passes Bill to Directly Punish Hack Makers
https://pvplive.net/c/south-korea-passes-bill-to-directly-punish-hack-ma
142
62
Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
http://skov.software/en/
328
Let’s Stop Bashing C
http://h2co3.org/blog/index.php/2016/12/01/lets-stop-bashing-c/
133
Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/
132
162
Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/nyregion/lower-manhattan-crowding.html
39
How I Work from Anywhere in the World
http://wanderling.co/how-i-work-from-anywhere-in-the-world
127
A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
https://blog.navapbc.com/the-billion-user-load-test-ffb035aeb2d6
125
19
URL Parsing in WebKit
https://webkit.org/blog/7086/url-parsing-in-webkit/
121
Is nuclear fusion poised to deliver?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/02/after-60-years-is-nuclear-fusion-finally-poised-to-deliver
117
42
A practical guide for learning meditation through the art of gaming
http://qz.com/841877/learn-how-to-meditate-through-video-games-and-apps-such-as-flow-and-no-mans-sky/
116
56
CyanogenMod Inc. Reorganizes, Severs Ties with Project Founder
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/01/steve-kondik-blames-kirt-mcmaster-for-cyanogen-incs-failure-cyanogenmod-to-reorganize-and-regroup/
115
36
Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881
96
Ubuntu still isn't free software
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/45939.html
112
20
The Excitable Mitochondria
http://inference-review.com/article/the-excitable-mitochondria
109
67
The Ruby+OMR JIT
https://developer.ibm.com/open/2016/11/18/introducing-ruby-jit/
Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/502330818/lab-grown-diamonds-come-into-their-own
105
7
The Tiger of Mysore
http://www.historytoday.com/zareer-masani/tiger-mysore
100
We don't need a Tech Lead
http://vvgomes.com/we-dont-need-tech-leads/
99
43
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (2008)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/?all?no-ist
16
The Crime of Speech: How Arab Governments Use Law to Silence Expression Online
https://www.eff.org/wp/crime-speech-how-arab-governments-use-law-silence-expression-online
86
21
Walking Paths with Complex Numbers
https://dannythecoder.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/walking-paths-with-complex-numbers/
50
The Django Project Debates User Tracking
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/707443/5710ef3733710462/
81
120
Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity
https://sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/meeting_notes.htm
77
2
In the Deep, Clues to How Life Makes Light
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161201-how-life-makes-light-bioluminescence/
48
WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally
https://citizenlab.org/2016/11/wechat-china-censorship-one-app-two-systems/
76
34
Virtual reality: a billion dollar niche
https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/tmt-pred16-media-virtual-reality-billion-dollar-niche.html
74
Deep Learning: What, Why and Applications
http://aiehive.com/deep-learning-applications/
71
212
Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088714
65
How to empty the ketchup bottle every time and improve power plants too
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711015-and-improve-power-plants-too-how-empty-ketchup-bottle-every-time?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2016121n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/AP/8258163/n