top 10 hacker news stories for 2018-01-03

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

8 years ago

2334 upvotes – 593 comments

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/amd-soars-after-rival-intel-said-to-reveal-processor-flaw?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business

8 years ago

1026 upvotes – 543 comments

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-nsas-top-talent-is-leaving-because-of-low-pay-and-battered-morale/2018/01/02/ff19f0c6-ec04-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?utm_term=.0388eaf826c3

8 years ago

824 upvotes – 514 comments

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/

8 years ago

588 upvotes – 229 comments

Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)

https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/

8 years ago

562 upvotes – 106 comments

After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/colorado-city-to-build-fiber-broadband-network-with-net-neutrality/

8 years ago

511 upvotes – 135 comments

Spotify files for its IPO

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-spotify-files-for-its-ipo-2522109160.html

8 years ago

411 upvotes – 212 comments

GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number

https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/M77232917.html

8 years ago

369 upvotes – 108 comments

HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8

8 years ago

339 upvotes – 26 comments

Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/upshot/us-health-care-expensive-country-comparison.html

8 years ago

324 upvotes – 556 comments
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