top 50% 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

Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text

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

8 years ago

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

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

8 years ago

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

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

8 years ago

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

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

You are listening to San Francisco

http://youarelistening.to/sanfrancisco

8 years ago

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

Common Gotchas in Go

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

8 years ago

So Close

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

8 years ago

Questions to ask yourself when writing tests

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

8 years ago

Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection

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

8 years ago

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

Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?

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

8 years ago

What sugar does to your brain

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

8 years ago

Testing Microservices the sane way

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

8 years ago

Generating inspirational quotes with Markov chains

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

8 years ago

GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

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

8 years ago

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

https://github.com/rameshvarun/NeuralKart

8 years ago

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

http://opentracing.io/

8 years ago

Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-browser-youve-never-heard-of-is-dethroning-google-in-asia-1514808002

8 years ago

What's hidden in the hidden layers? (1989) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/pubs/byte-hiddenlayer-1989.pdf

8 years ago

Testing techniques in Go

https://segment.com/blog/5-advanced-testing-techniques-in-go/

8 years ago

Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your website

http://chirpss.com/?2018

8 years ago

Why people believe others' social lives are richer than their own

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189037

8 years ago

If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man on the Moon?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-we-can-put-a-man-on-the-moon-why-cant-we-put-a-man-on-the-moon-1514833480

8 years ago

Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism

http://pressthink.org/2017/12/show-work-new-terms-trust-journalism/

8 years ago

Spotting Field Sabotage in Meetings (2011)

https://whatsthepont.com/2011/06/19/spotting-field-sabotage/

8 years ago

Playing with Lasp and CRDTs

http://marianoguerra.org/posts/playing-with-lasp-and-crdts/

8 years ago

Diabetes drug 'significantly reverses memory loss' in mice with Alzheimer's

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006899317304596?via%3Dihub

8 years ago

A Third of Antidepressants Are Prescribed for Something Else

http://digg.com/2017/off-label-antidepressants

8 years ago

Terminal: How the airport came to embody our national psychosis

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/cover_story/2017/09/how_airports_became_temples_of_our_national_fear_fueled_psychosis.html

8 years ago

Is abstraction overrated in programming? Chess, interviews and OOP

https://www.quora.com/Is-abstraction-overrated-in-programming/answer/Matthew-Drescher?&share=1

8 years ago

Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design (2013) [pdf]

http://gamedevs.org/uploads/practical-examples-in-data-oriented-design.pdf

8 years ago

Not only is it possible to beat Google, it could happen sooner than we think

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-beat-Google/answer/Mark-Nuzzolilo-II?share=1

8 years ago

ToySMT – simple SMT solver under 1500 SLOC of pure C

https://github.com/DennisYurichev/ToySMT

8 years ago

Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16047795

8 years ago

China Shuts Down Its Legal Ivory Trade

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/12/wildlife-watch-china-ivory-ban-goes-into-effect

8 years ago