top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-06

Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash

https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/

8 years ago

781 upvotes – 268 comments

Many packages suddenly disappeared

https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/255

8 years ago

★ 490
749 upvotes – 492 comments

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites

https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5

8 years ago

720 upvotes – 121 comments

CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/news/announcements/132642-epic-services-stability-update

8 years ago

561 upvotes – 282 comments

WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities

http://gulftech.org/advisories/WDMyCloud%20Multiple%20Vulnerabilities/125

8 years ago

539 upvotes – 191 comments

Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/

8 years ago

509 upvotes – 174 comments

Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra

https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/682

8 years ago

★ 5.9k C GPL-2.0
332 upvotes – 233 comments

Convenient End-To-End Encryption for E-Mail

https://autocrypt.org

8 years ago

311 upvotes – 183 comments

Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/#kubernetes

8 years ago

285 upvotes – 164 comments

Python decorators they don't tell you about

https://github.com/hchasestevens/hchasestevens.github.io/blob/master/notebooks/the-decorators-they-wont-tell-you-about.ipynb

8 years ago

★ 668 Jupyter Notebook
281 upvotes – 86 comments

“Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10155003011462143

8 years ago

265 upvotes – 102 comments

WebGL2 Fundamentals

https://webgl2fundamentals.org/

8 years ago

242 upvotes – 74 comments

Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151521435721902&w=2

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 169 comments

The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/extraordinary-life-nikola-tesla-180967758/?no-ist

8 years ago

222 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Eel – a simple Python library for making little HTML GUI applications

https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Eel?

8 years ago

★ 6.7k Python MIT
201 upvotes – 44 comments

Modern Linux in an ancient PC

http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/

8 years ago

198 upvotes – 126 comments

How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spectre and Meltdown

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/06/how-tier-2-cloud-vendors-banded-together-to-cope-with-spectre

8 years ago

196 upvotes – 68 comments

Increased amygdala responses after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390817306391

8 years ago

184 upvotes – 95 comments

Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL

http://www.paulox.net/2017/12/22/full-text-search-in-django-with-postgresql/

8 years ago

180 upvotes – 96 comments

Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming (2015)

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/

8 years ago

179 upvotes – 11 comments

Bleve: full-text search and indexing for Go

http://www.blevesearch.com/

8 years ago

141 upvotes – 32 comments

A Love Letter to Plain Text

https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-plain-text/

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 37 comments

Astronaut John Young Has Died

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/06/517138761/astronaut-john-young-who-flew-in-space-6-times-dies-at-87

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 25 comments

Memory Management Reference

http://www.memorymanagement.org/index.html

8 years ago

112 upvotes – 8 comments

Border Search of Electronic Devices – CBP Directive [pdf]

https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jan/cbp-directive-3340-049a-border-search-electronic-media.pdf

8 years ago

111 upvotes – 105 comments

Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/missing-nintendos-miiverse-network-check-out-this-17tb-online-archive/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: detecting cache latency inside a Web browser

https://maratyszcza.github.io/laff-demos/pointer-chasing.html

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 47 comments

Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/first-electric-plane-passenger-flights-in-australia-to-rottnest/9304424

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 74 comments

Kernel Side-Channel Attacks

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution

8 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

New York City in 1993 in HD – DTheater DVHS Demo Tape [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

8 years ago

91 upvotes – 34 comments

Illegal Prime Number? (2001)

http://fatphil.org/maths/illegal1.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.00631.pdf

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 18 comments

Against the synchronous society

https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/against-the-synchronous-society-3146/

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments
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