top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-01-04

Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

https://github.com/tombh/texttop

8 years ago

★ 18.7k JavaScript LGPL-2.1
551 upvotes – 92 comments

iMac Pro's T2 chip

https://www.macworld.com/article/3245764/macs/the-t2-chip-makes-the-imac-pro-the-start-of-a-mac-revolution.html

8 years ago

538 upvotes – 279 comments

Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-updates-protect-systems-security-exploits/

8 years ago

502 upvotes – 389 comments

Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/

8 years ago

483 upvotes – 110 comments

Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-ceo-krzanich-sold-shares-after-company-was-informed-of-chip-flaw-2018-1

8 years ago

468 upvotes – 85 comments

LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack

https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723

8 years ago

433 upvotes – 242 comments

Why things might have taken so long

https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/16417/

8 years ago

424 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

https://github.com/paragonie/past

8 years ago

★ 3.3k PHP
362 upvotes – 138 comments

Meltdown and Spectre

https://spectreattack.com/

8 years ago

347 upvotes – 141 comments

More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-mitigations-for-cpu_4.html

8 years ago

327 upvotes – 90 comments

Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/announcing-the-openwrt-lede-merge/10217

8 years ago

312 upvotes – 111 comments

Notes from the Intelpocalypse

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/742702/e23889188fce9f7f/

8 years ago

288 upvotes – 25 comments

Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time

http://blog.rescuetime.com/225-million-hours-productivity/

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 150 comments

Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 93 comments

Announcing Rust 1.23

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/04/Rust-1.23.html

8 years ago

248 upvotes – 83 comments

XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

https://bartongeorge.io/2018/01/04/xps-13-developer-edition-the-7th-gen-is-here/

8 years ago

244 upvotes – 406 comments

Introducing Preemptible GPUs

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/01/introducing-preemptible-gpus-50-off.html

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 80 comments

Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system

http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-alto-zero-day-cracking-disk.html

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 64 comments

Techniques for Factoring Numbers in Your Head

http://exupero.org/hazard/post/prime-modulo/

8 years ago

218 upvotes – 36 comments

How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/02/technology/ai-generated-photos.html?_r=0

8 years ago

197 upvotes – 81 comments
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