top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-01-09

A letter about Google AMP

http://ampletter.org/

8 years ago

866 upvotes – 346 comments

Meltdown Proof-of-Concept

https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown/

8 years ago

★ 4.1kCZlib
760 upvotes – 174 comments

The day I accidentally killed a little boy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42309681

8 years ago

573 upvotes – 654 comments

Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)

http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm

8 years ago

567 upvotes – 111 comments

Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/incredible-events-at-browserling/

8 years ago

480 upvotes – 222 comments

Building for the Blockchain

http://blog.ycombinator.com/building-for-the-blockchain/

8 years ago

470 upvotes – 330 comments

James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died

https://freedom.press/news/tribute-james-dolan-co-creator-securedrop-who-has-tragically-passed-away-age-36/

8 years ago

461 upvotes – 77 comments

Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/intel-ceo-krzanich-s-stock-sales-seen-warranting-sec-examination

8 years ago

406 upvotes – 184 comments

What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit

https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/

8 years ago

397 upvotes – 285 comments

Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/09/apple-tracking-block-costs-advertising-companies-millions-dollars-criteo-web-browser-safari

8 years ago

365 upvotes – 383 comments

Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly

http://kakaroto.homelinux.net/2017/11/introduction-to-reverse-engineering-and-assembly/

8 years ago

343 upvotes – 32 comments

We Used Broadband Data We Shouldn’t Have

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-used-broadband-data-we-shouldnt-have-heres-what-went-wrong/

8 years ago

284 upvotes – 94 comments

Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidLightbown/20180109/309414/Classic_Tools_Retrospective_Tim_Sweeney_on_the_first_version_of_the_Unreal_Editor.php

8 years ago

271 upvotes – 75 comments

Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/08/fight-me-psychologists-birth-order-effects-exist-and-are-very-strong/

8 years ago

259 upvotes – 193 comments

Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead

https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-is-dead-so-are-chatbots/

8 years ago

239 upvotes – 152 comments

Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways

https://ftfy.now.sh/

8 years ago

226 upvotes – 57 comments

Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft (2017)

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

8 years ago

219 upvotes – 37 comments

How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, runtime and call stack (2017)

https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-does-javascript-actually-work-part-1-b0bacc073cf

8 years ago

208 upvotes – 12 comments

Introducing the new SourceForge

https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge/

8 years ago

207 upvotes – 119 comments

What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company

http://jayshah.me/2018/01/05/board/

8 years ago

203 upvotes – 76 comments
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