top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-05

Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/

8 years ago

1603 upvotes – 215 comments

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”

https://twitter.com/littlescale/status/949032404206870528

8 years ago

860 upvotes – 241 comments

Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00093-7

8 years ago

603 upvotes – 143 comments

Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/Intel-Analysis-of-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channels.pdf

8 years ago

380 upvotes – 34 comments

“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2

8 years ago

325 upvotes – 118 comments

Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700

8 years ago

296 upvotes – 252 comments

GitMask – Develop Anonymously

https://www.gitmask.com/

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 115 comments

Products Over Projects

https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.html

8 years ago

256 upvotes – 39 comments

AMD PSP: Firmware TPM Remote Code Execution via Crafted EK Certificate

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/12

8 years ago

243 upvotes – 90 comments

AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00004.html

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 173 comments

The case against GDP: time to change the way we measure the wealth of nations

https://www.ft.com/content/765781fe-f136-11e7-b220-857e26d1aca4

8 years ago

234 upvotes – 216 comments

AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford

https://medium.com/the-ai-lab/artificial-intelligence-in-drug-discovery-is-overhyped-examples-from-astrazeneca-harvard-315d69a7f863

8 years ago

229 upvotes – 99 comments

About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394

8 years ago

228 upvotes – 104 comments

Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7oabzl/all_bitcoin_visa_debit_cards_are_now_cancelled/?st=JC1T42EL&sh=5284687c

8 years ago

220 upvotes – 181 comments

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 151 comments

Update on Meltdown and Spectre

https://engineering.coinbase.com/update-on-meltdown-and-spectre-45d344c47b5

8 years ago

209 upvotes – 100 comments

SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

http://www.symbos.de/

8 years ago

204 upvotes – 98 comments

TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly

http://teavm.org/

8 years ago

195 upvotes – 126 comments

Christopher Nolan: The power of people and why 2001 should be preschool viewing

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-mn-christopher-nolan-20180104-htmlstory.html

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 218 comments

Mailgun Security Incident and Important Customer Information

http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-security-incident-and-important-customer-information/

8 years ago

187 upvotes – 59 comments

Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments

https://gist.github.com/antirez/9e716670f76133ec81cb24036f86ee95

8 years ago

178 upvotes – 73 comments

Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% of Stake

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-05/uber-co-founder-travis-kalanick-said-to-plan-sale-of-29-of-stake

8 years ago

177 upvotes – 280 comments

Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-power-family/

8 years ago

173 upvotes – 33 comments

WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser

http://www.webgraphviz.com/

8 years ago

171 upvotes – 21 comments

The State of Vacuum in Postgres

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-state-of-vacuum.html

8 years ago

169 upvotes – 52 comments

The art of the error message

https://thestyleofelements.org/the-art-of-the-error-message-9f878d0bff80

8 years ago

167 upvotes – 56 comments

How Wendy Carlos Changed Music

https://www.wfmt.com/2016/11/17/transgender-composer-wendy-carlos-changed-music-forever/

8 years ago

166 upvotes – 43 comments

How does GDB call functions?

https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/01/04/how-does-gdb-call-functions/

8 years ago

160 upvotes – 30 comments

Racket-On-Chez Status

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.html

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 18 comments

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc in 2017

http://blog.fogus.me/2018/01/02/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2017/

8 years ago

147 upvotes – 24 comments

Wang tile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 24 comments

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4 (2015)

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning-part-4/

8 years ago

145 upvotes – 7 comments

The Foundations of Mathematics (2007) [pdf]

https://www.math.wisc.edu/~miller/old/m771-10/kunen770.pdf

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 34 comments

Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/

8 years ago

139 upvotes – 32 comments

Generative Adversarial Networks Code in PyTorch and Tensorflow

https://github.com/diegoalejogm/gans

8 years ago

★ 846 Jupyter Notebook MIT
139 upvotes – 6 comments

The Future of Transmit iOS

https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-transmit-ios/

8 years ago

138 upvotes – 126 comments

Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16079020

8 years ago

135 upvotes – 69 comments

A Generative Approach to Simulating Watercolor Paints from Scratch

https://blog.paytonturnage.com/water_color

8 years ago

133 upvotes – 20 comments

When F00F bug hit 20 years ago, Intel reacted the same way

https://www.itwire.com/security/81328-when-f00f-bug-hit-20-years-ago,-intel-reacted-the-same-way.html

8 years ago

130 upvotes – 19 comments

Can Washington Be Automated?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/washington-automation-congress-politics-lobbying-policy-216216

8 years ago

114 upvotes – 84 comments

Idyll Language – Author interactive narratives for the web

https://idyll-lang.org/

8 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Machine Learning Projects for the Past Year

https://medium.mybridge.co/30-amazing-machine-learning-projects-for-the-past-year-v-2018-b853b8621ac7

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time

http://www.neuropro.ch/neurovis

8 years ago

109 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Ipfs-dropzone, a subclass of Dropzone.js that publishes to IPFS

https://github.com/fiatjaf/ipfs-dropzone

8 years ago

★ 154 JavaScript
109 upvotes – 80 comments

Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianmitchell/2017/12/31/this-search-engine-startup-helps-you-find-what-google-is-missing/

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

About the security content of updates for High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331?updated

8 years ago

97 upvotes – 32 comments

‎Chromium Security‎: Site Isolation

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolation

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 35 comments

Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' becoming practical?

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-quantum-spooky-action-distance.html

8 years ago

94 upvotes – 41 comments

I was given new hands for Christmas

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/05/experience-i-was-given-new-hands-for-christmas

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Fantastic Timers: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JS (2017) [pdf]

https://gruss.cc/files/fantastictimers.pdf

8 years ago

89 upvotes – 34 comments

Staging Endpoint for ACME v2

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/staging-endpoint-for-acme-v2/49605

8 years ago

81 upvotes – 10 comments

Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-aim-to-classify-all-possible-phases-of-matter-20180103/

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Compiler using Lisp’s macro system for metaprogramming C-like languages

https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

8 years ago

★ 445 Common Lisp
80 upvotes – 32 comments

Rise of Bitcoin Competitor Ripple Creates Wealth to Rival Zuckerberg

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/technology/bitcoin-ripple.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=5&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F01%2F04%2Ftechnology%2Fbitcoin-ripple.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 105 comments
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