top 50% 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

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

Introducing Preemptible GPUs

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

8 years ago

240 upvotes – 80 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

Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

8 years ago

193 upvotes – 60 comments

An Update on AMD Processor Security

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

8 years ago

192 upvotes – 35 comments

Microprocessor Design (2017)

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Microprocessor_Design

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 54 comments

You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else

http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else

8 years ago

183 upvotes – 109 comments

Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music

http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/free-open-source-modular-synth-software-lets-you-create-70s-80s-electronic-music-without-having-to-pay-thousands-for-a-real-world-synthesizer.html

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-intel-researcher/how-a-researcher-hacked-his-own-computer-and-found-worst-chip-flaw-idUSKBN1ET1ZR

8 years ago

182 upvotes – 78 comments

Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)

https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1620/?lang

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 153 comments

Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML requests (CoffeeMiner)

http://arnaucode.com/blog/coffeeminer-hacking-wifi-cryptocurrency-miner.html

8 years ago

176 upvotes – 52 comments

How and why we teach non-engineers to use GitHub at Thread

https://thread.engineering/teaching-non-engineers-how-to-contribute-code-2e85411ab464

8 years ago

168 upvotes – 86 comments

Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/magazine/where-pot-entrepreneurs-go-when-the-banks-just-say-no.html

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 181 comments

Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of Java applications

https://github.com/graalvm/graal/tree/master/substratevm

8 years ago

★ 21.5k Java
164 upvotes – 56 comments

GitHub acquires AppCanary

https://blog.appcanary.com/2018/goodbye.html

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 28 comments

Frontmacs

https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs

8 years ago

★ 505 Emacs Lisp MIT
157 upvotes – 96 comments

Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16070177

8 years ago

156 upvotes – 149 comments

Ink/stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design

http://inkstitch.org/

8 years ago

155 upvotes – 20 comments

Docker for data scientists: Introduction and use cases

https://unsupervisedpandas.com/data-science/docker-for-data-science/

8 years ago

151 upvotes – 55 comments

An explorable explanation of relativistic spacetime

https://www.lucify.com/inside-einsteins-head/

8 years ago

150 upvotes – 57 comments

Why I Still Use Vim

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4db6?21

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 108 comments

CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584653

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 82 comments

U.S. To End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/ap-newsbreak-us-to-end-policy-that-let-legal-pot-flourish

8 years ago

137 upvotes – 196 comments

Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” Radio Broadcasts Re-Recorded

http://aperiodical.com/2018/01/ive-re-recorded-alan-turings-can-computers-think-radio-broadcasts/

8 years ago

136 upvotes – 33 comments

Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs

http://en.zhaoxin.com/solution.aspx?id=3

8 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: An illustration of Web Developer tools in 2018

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/blob/master/README.md

8 years ago

★ 353.7k TypeScript
130 upvotes – 38 comments

Access to India's Aadhaar citizen database selling for under USD $10

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/rs-500-10-minutes-and-you-have-access-to-billion-aadhaar-details/523361.html

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

The dawn of online piracy (2015)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

8 years ago

115 upvotes – 49 comments

Fork is not my favourite syscall

http://sircmpwn.github.io/2018/01/02/The-case-against-fork.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 89 comments

Algorithm efficiency comes from problem information

http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/algorithm-efficiency-comes-problem-information/

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 28 comments

Wi-Fi startup Eero lays off 30 employees

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/03/wi-fi-startup-eero-lays-off-30-employees/

8 years ago

99 upvotes – 125 comments

Ubuntu anouncement on Spectre/Meltdown

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 15 comments

A list of macOS, tvOS and iOS bugs while helping my family over the holidays

https://njr.sabi.net/2018/01/03/a-list-of-macos-tvos-and-ios-bugs-i-encountered-while-helping-my-family-over-the-holidays/

8 years ago

93 upvotes – 93 comments

Deep learning sharpens views of cells and genes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00004-w

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 12 comments

My journey with Rust in 2017 — The good, the bad, the weird

https://medium.com/@fschutt/my-journey-with-rust-in-2017-the-good-the-bad-the-weird-f07aa918f4f8

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 26 comments
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