top 50% 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

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

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

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings

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

8 years ago

Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)

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

8 years ago

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

Spotify files for its IPO

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

8 years ago

GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number

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

8 years ago

HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]

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

8 years ago

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

Degraded performance after forced reboot due to AWS instance maintenance

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858

8 years ago

The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/02/the-app-you-cant-trash-how-sip-is-broken-in-high-sierra/

8 years ago

Kenichi Yamamoto has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/kenichi-yamamoto-dead-father-of-mazda-rotary-engine.html

8 years ago

As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/international-enrollment-drop.html

8 years ago

What I learned in 2017 writing Go

https://www.commandercoriander.net/blog/2017/12/31/writing-go/

8 years ago

Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore

https://www.wired.com/story/why-teens-arent-partying-anymore/

8 years ago

Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record

http://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17312/tesla-model-3-sets-new-ev-cannonball-run-record-of-50-hours-16-minutes

8 years ago

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

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

8 years ago

High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180102114147.htm

8 years ago

Complexity Theory, Game Theory, and Economics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00734

8 years ago

Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hncute/efcgbnccnagdhbdhnghlldlolfppcfia

8 years ago

Why are bones not made of steel? (2010)

https://www.materialstoday.com/mechanical-properties/news/why-are-your-bones-not-made-of-steel/

8 years ago

Yes, Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine

https://gizmodo.com/yes-your-amazon-echo-is-an-ad-machine-1821712916

8 years ago

The Case for the Subway

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/magazine/subway-new-york-city-public-transportation-wealth-inequality.html

8 years ago

Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=01032018a

8 years ago

Initial Performance Benchmarks of Linux's x86 Security Changes

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-415-x86pti&num=1

8 years ago

Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFhzGEBQlk

8 years ago

Physics Simulations

https://www.myphysicslab.com/

8 years ago

The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/criminal-underworld-is-dropping-bitcoin-for-another-currency

8 years ago

The Giant, Under Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/drug-addiction-rehab.html

8 years ago

Inequality in nature and society

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/50/13154.full

8 years ago

Mistakes to avoid when asking for a raise

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/how-to-ask-for-a-raise-in-2018-avoid-these-common-pitfalls-1801.html

8 years ago

Tesla's Model 3 volume production target pushed back again

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-production/tesla-delivers-1550-model-3s-in-fourth-quarter-idUSKBN1ES1Z4

8 years ago

German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-hate-speech-law-tested-as-twitter-blocks-satire-account-idUSKBN1ES1AT

8 years ago

Meltdown and Spectre: Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data

https://www.meltdownattack.com/

8 years ago

Don't Be Evil: Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers

https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/

8 years ago

AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-013/

8 years ago