top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-12-02

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

https://www.crypto101.io/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Htop explained

https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people

http://onedollarglasses.org

10 years ago

Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38173287

10 years ago

Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines

https://states-language.net/spec.html

10 years ago

Redis 4.0 RC1 is out

http://www.antirez.com/news/110

10 years ago

Spec-ulation – Rich Hickey [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

10 years ago

Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-11-30/confessions-of-an-instagram-influencer

10 years ago

Reflections on Rusting Trust

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-rusting-trust/

10 years ago

Codebase Refactoring with Go

https://talks.golang.org/2016/refactor.article

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/facebook-bsdetector-plugin-blocked/

10 years ago

Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice

https://blog.pusher.com/golangs-real-time-gc-in-theory-and-practice/

10 years ago

InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces

http://infernojs.org/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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/

10 years ago

State of Startups

http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2016/

10 years ago

Homeschooling as a right, and a needed practical alternative

https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/homeschooling-as-a-right-and-a-practical-alternative/

10 years ago

Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with 4 or 6

http://seclists.org/nanog/2016/Dec/29

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

PHP 7.1.0 Released

http://php.net/archive/2016.php#id2016-12-01-3

10 years ago

Serverless Comparison: Zappa vs. Chalice

https://blog.zappa.io/posts/comparison-zappa-verus-chalice

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

South Korea Passes Bill to Directly Punish Hack Makers

https://pvplive.net/c/south-korea-passes-bill-to-directly-punish-hack-ma

10 years ago

Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment

http://skov.software/en/

10 years ago

Let’s Stop Bashing C

http://h2co3.org/blog/index.php/2016/12/01/lets-stop-bashing-c/

10 years ago

Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/

10 years ago

Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/nyregion/lower-manhattan-crowding.html

10 years ago

How I Work from Anywhere in the World

http://wanderling.co/how-i-work-from-anywhere-in-the-world

10 years ago

A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov

https://blog.navapbc.com/the-billion-user-load-test-ffb035aeb2d6

10 years ago

URL Parsing in WebKit

https://webkit.org/blog/7086/url-parsing-in-webkit/

10 years ago

Is nuclear fusion poised to deliver?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/02/after-60-years-is-nuclear-fusion-finally-poised-to-deliver

10 years ago

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/

10 years ago

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/

10 years ago

Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3042881

10 years ago

Ubuntu still isn't free software

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/45939.html

10 years ago

The Excitable Mitochondria

http://inference-review.com/article/the-excitable-mitochondria

10 years ago

The Ruby+OMR JIT

https://developer.ibm.com/open/2016/11/18/introducing-ruby-jit/

10 years ago

Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/502330818/lab-grown-diamonds-come-into-their-own

10 years ago

The Tiger of Mysore

http://www.historytoday.com/zareer-masani/tiger-mysore

10 years ago

We don't need a Tech Lead

http://vvgomes.com/we-dont-need-tech-leads/

10 years ago

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (2008)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/?all?no-ist

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Walking Paths with Complex Numbers

https://dannythecoder.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/walking-paths-with-complex-numbers/

10 years ago

The Django Project Debates User Tracking

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/707443/5710ef3733710462/

10 years ago

Notes from November 28 Meetup of Bay Area Tech Solidarity

https://sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/meeting_notes.htm

10 years ago

In the Deep, Clues to How Life Makes Light

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161201-how-life-makes-light-bioluminescence/

10 years ago

WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally

https://citizenlab.org/2016/11/wechat-china-censorship-one-app-two-systems/

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

Deep Learning: What, Why and Applications

http://aiehive.com/deep-learning-applications/

10 years ago

Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13088714

10 years ago

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

10 years ago