top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-01-01

The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table

8 years ago

988 upvotes – 254 comments

Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text

https://www.zachaysan.com/writing/2017-12-30-zero-width-characters

8 years ago

572 upvotes – 146 comments

Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859

8 years ago

418 upvotes – 106 comments

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018

https://law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2018/pre-1976/

8 years ago

286 upvotes – 133 comments

Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16795090/internet-community-2017-post-mortem-tumblr-amino-drip-tinyletter

8 years ago

268 upvotes – 84 comments

Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms about the power of tech

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/01/silicon-valley-eating-soul-google-facebook-tech

8 years ago

250 upvotes – 189 comments

You are listening to San Francisco

http://youarelistening.to/sanfrancisco

8 years ago

247 upvotes – 61 comments

Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (2011)

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/85327/why-is-writing-down-mathematical-proofs-more-fault-proof-than-writing-computer-c

8 years ago

238 upvotes – 132 comments

Common Gotchas in Go

https://deadbeef.me/2018/01/go-gotchas

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 72 comments

Questions to ask yourself when writing tests

https://charemza.name/blog/posts/methodologies/testing/questions-to-ask-yourself-when-writing-tests/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 97 comments

So Close

https://hackernoon.com/so-close-806b8ae77fa6

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 263 comments

Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection

https://engineering.instagram.com/copy-on-write-friendly-python-garbage-collection-ad6ed5233ddf

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments

AI and Deep Learning in 2017 – A Year in Review

http://www.wildml.com/2017/12/ai-and-deep-learning-in-2017-a-year-in-review/

8 years ago

188 upvotes – 6 comments

Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044255

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 251 comments

What sugar does to your brain

http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2017/what-sugar-does-to-your-brain/

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 65 comments

Testing Microservices the sane way

https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-microservices-the-sane-way-9bb31d158c16

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 45 comments

Generating inspirational quotes with Markov chains

http://www.ramtin.xyz/post/4

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 32 comments

GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2475

8 years ago

★ 764
158 upvotes – 123 comments

A Real-Time Mario Kart AI Using CNNs, Offline Search, and Dagger

https://github.com/rameshvarun/NeuralKart

8 years ago

★ 670Lua
152 upvotes – 9 comments

OpenTracing: A vendor-neutral open standard for distributed network tracing

http://opentracing.io/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 24 comments
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