top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-12-27

How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Goryachy-How-To-Hack-A-Turned-Off-Computer-Or-Running-Unsigned-Code-In-Intel-Management-Engine-wp.pdf

8 years ago

India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year

https://qz.com/1152683/indian-it-layoffs-in-2017-top-56000-led-by-tcs-infosys-cognizant/

8 years ago

Learning from Scratch by Thinking Fast and Slow

https://davidbarber.github.io/blog/2017/11/07/Learning-From-Scratch-by-Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-with-Deep-Learning-and-Tree-Search/

8 years ago

Operating System Design Book Series

http://www.fysnet.net/osdesign_book_series.htm

8 years ago

Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-a380/airbus-ready-to-axe-a380-if-fails-to-win-emirates-deal-sources-idUSKBN1EL11L

8 years ago

34th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams

http://streaming.media.ccc.de

8 years ago

No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-user-identities-web-trackers-exploit-browser-login-managers/

8 years ago

DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during Women's March

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/nov/20/dc-lrad/

8 years ago

From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over

8 years ago

Darktable 2.4.0 released

https://www.darktable.org/2017/12/darktable-240-released/

8 years ago

ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge

https://blog.tindie.com/2017/12/esp8266-epaper-display/

8 years ago

A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/26/a-history-of-the-silmarils-in-the-fifth-age/

8 years ago

Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/2017-year-in-review

8 years ago

A pattern language for microservices

http://microservices.io/patterns/

8 years ago

Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

https://digventures.com/2015/12/these-32-symbols-are-found-in-ice-age-caves-across-europe-but-what-do-they-mean/

8 years ago

Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/27/chess-champion-to-miss-saudi-arabia-tournament-over-womens-rights

8 years ago

World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/27/worlds-richest-500-see-increased-their-wealth-by-1tn-this-year

8 years ago

The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday season

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/26/the-echo-dot-was-the-best-selling-product-on-all-of-amazon-this-holiday-season/

8 years ago

Reading Mathematics (2002) [pdf]

http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hubbard/readingmath.pdf

8 years ago

Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git

http://gittup.org/gittup/

8 years ago

Building a Thermal Camera

https://damow.net/building-a-thermal-camera/

8 years ago

Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms

http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/

8 years ago

Hacker News Transparency

https://hn.0x2237.club/

8 years ago

I realized my brain belongs to my phone

https://qz.com/1165651/smartphone-addiction-this-was-the-year-i-realized-my-brain-belongs-to-my-phone/

8 years ago

Evidence of exponential speed-up in the solution of hard optimization problems?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09278

8 years ago

Dustin Moskovitz pours funds into high-risk research

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08795-0

8 years ago

Big Tech Is Going After Health Care

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-health-care.html

8 years ago

‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/06/saluton-the-surprise-return-of-esperanto

8 years ago

Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-27/vietnam-deploys-10-000-cyber-warriors-to-fight-wrongful-views

8 years ago

NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 1 Submissions

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Round-1-Submissions

8 years ago

We’re Going to Need More Lithium

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-future/

8 years ago

Chef gives up a Michelin star, reflecting hardship of ‘the Other France’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/world/europe/france-chef-michelin-star.html

8 years ago

Google claims near-human accuracy at imitating a person speaking from text

https://qz.com/1165775/googles-voice-generating-ai-is-now-indistinguishable-from-humans/

8 years ago

HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming

https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/html-5-2-is-done-html-5-3-is-coming/

8 years ago

Ixy – a userspace network driver in 1000 lines of code

https://github.com/emmericp/ixy

8 years ago

★ 1.2k C BSD-3-Clause

Warren Buffett: Bitcoin Is Pure FOMO

https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/heed-warren-buffetts-warning-bitcoin-is-pure-fomo-2017-12-26

8 years ago

Hard and Soft Skills in Tech

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/hard-and-soft-skills-in-tech-8be00216f67f?source=linkShare-ccff18f5a169-1514394601

8 years ago

Using Go Templates

https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2017/using-go-templates/

8 years ago

What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-economy-echo-speaker-google-assistant-siri/

8 years ago

Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05889

8 years ago

LastPass’ Authenticator app is not secure

https://medium.com/@dylan.m/lastpass-authenticator-app-is-not-secure-77b9743c3007

8 years ago

Travel, Budget Beds, and the Homeless

https://www.ricksteves.com/about-rick/trinity-place

8 years ago

The Social Origins of Inventors [pdf]

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/aghion/files/social_origins_of_inventors.pdf

8 years ago

Apple faces lawsuits after admitting it slows down aging iPhones

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-27/apple-faces-lawsuits-after-saying-it-slows-down-aging-iphones/9287216

8 years ago

Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16013950

8 years ago

Publishers Bought Millions of Website Visits They Found Out Were Fraudulent

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/these-publishers-bought-millions-of-website-visits-they

8 years ago

Passive Fingerprinting of HTTP/2 Clients [pdf]

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Shuster-Passive-Fingerprinting-Of-HTTP2-Clients-wp.pdf

8 years ago

Canadian open data portal

http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data

8 years ago

Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015715

8 years ago

MedleyText

https://medleytext.net/

8 years ago

A Python internals adventure (2014)

https://flowerhack.dreamwidth.org/3594.html

8 years ago

My Internet Mea Culpa

https://shift.newco.co/my-internet-mea-culpa-f3ba77ac3eed

8 years ago

Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis [pdf]

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mshafiq/files/adblock-ndss2018.pdf

8 years ago

The iPhone X

https://daringfireball.net/2017/12/the_iphone_x

8 years ago

Single Board Computers Introduced in 2017

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763

8 years ago

New California law allows liquor companies to pay for free rides

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article191357404.html

8 years ago

Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/digital-nazi-hunter-trump.html

8 years ago

The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-future-of-automation/

8 years ago

Empirical research reveals three big problems with how patents are vetted

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/these-experts-figured-out-why-so-many-bogus-patents-get-approved/

8 years ago

Today's peak crypto arbitrage spreads for 26 pairs – BTC/USD 10.98%

https://www.tokenspread.com/spreads/top-price-spreads

8 years ago

WeWork is set to become the No. 1 tenant of London office space

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/a-u-s-startup-is-gobbling-up-the-old-city-of-london

8 years ago

Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters (2016)

http://blog.ploeh.dk/2016/03/18/functional-architecture-is-ports-and-adapters/

8 years ago

Power Method for Approximating Eigenvalues [pdf]

http://ergodic.ugr.es/cphys/LECCIONES/FORTRAN/power_method.pdf

8 years ago

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bee

8 years ago