top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-09

A letter about Google AMP

http://ampletter.org/

8 years ago

Meltdown Proof-of-Concept

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

8 years ago

★ 4.1k C Zlib

The day I accidentally killed a little boy

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

8 years ago

Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)

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

8 years ago

Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp

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

8 years ago

Building for the Blockchain

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

8 years ago

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

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

What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit

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

8 years ago

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

Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly

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

8 years ago

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

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

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

Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead

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

8 years ago

Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways

https://ftfy.now.sh/

8 years ago

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

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

8 years ago

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

Introducing the new SourceForge

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

8 years ago

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

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

8 years ago

Toapi – Let any web site provide APIs

http://www.toapi.org

8 years ago

A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in Market Value Vanishes

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-crypto-website-changes-its-data-and-100-billion-in-market-value-vanishes-1515443100?mod=ITP_businessandfinance_7&tesla=y

8 years ago

Slack is down

https://status.slack.com/

8 years ago

A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vast-map-planisphereurbano-monte-places-creatures-real-imagined

8 years ago

Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/tesla-powers-up-new-york-gigafactory-solar-roof-assembly-line

8 years ago

Microsoft disables Windows Update when Meltdown/Spectre registry key isn't set

https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microsoft-meltdown-cpu-security-fixes-antivirus-vendors-and-you-a852ba0292ec

8 years ago

Kodak shares up as it announces KODAKCoin cryptocurrency

https://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/Press_center/KODAK_and_WENN_Digital_Partner_to_Launch_Major_Blockchain_Initiative_and_Cryptocurrency/default.htm

8 years ago

The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=39048

8 years ago

How the Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-scripto-the-app-that-stephen-colbert-helped-build-became-a-fixture-of-late-night-comedy-news

8 years ago

TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_creator_is_now_homeless/

8 years ago

Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next week

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/intel-ces/

8 years ago

Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone

http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-altos-3-mbs-ethernet-building.html

8 years ago

WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced

https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements

8 years ago

When Does Work Actually Get Done?

https://priceonomics.com/when-does-work-actually-get-done/

8 years ago

Firefox: Retained Display Lists

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/retained-display-lists/

8 years ago

Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

https://data.hooks.co

8 years ago

Introducing the new Google Search Console

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/introducing-new-search-console.html

8 years ago

Rubbish (2002)

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1616-rubbish.html-2

8 years ago

Confidential metrics for Snapchat features

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-data-snapchat-doesnt-want-you-to-see

8 years ago

Git Exercises

https://gitexercises.fracz.com/

8 years ago

CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1272

8 years ago

Study suggests sugar alternative contributing to C. diff epidemic

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2018/01/09/has-a-sucrose-alternative-contributed-to-the-c-diff-epidemic/

8 years ago

Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-announces-new-do-not-track-standard-web-browsing

8 years ago

An array of eight SN76489 sound chips playable via USB MIDI

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2018/01/oct-sn76489-midi-array.html

8 years ago

SpaceX payload code-named Zuma failed to reach orbit after Sunday launch

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-satellite-believed-lost-after-spacex-mission-fails-1515462479

8 years ago

China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining

https://qz.com/1174091/china-wants-an-orderly-exit-from-bitcoin-mining/

8 years ago

Improving URLs for AMP Pages

https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/improving-urls-for-amp-pages/

8 years ago

How Birds of Paradise Produce Super-Black Feathers

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/super-black-is-the-new-black/549869/?single_page=true

8 years ago

Rails and Revenue: Building a Screencast Business

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/8999c7ac7f

8 years ago

SpaceX says its rocket performed exactly as intended in Zuma launch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/09/spacex-says-its-rocket-performed-exactly-as-intended-in-zuma-launch

8 years ago

Show HN: Plait.py – a fake data modeler

https://github.com/plaitpy/plaitpy

8 years ago

★ 435 Python MIT

John Romero talks about creating TEd, the tile editor

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidLightbown/20170223/289955/Classic_Tools_Retrospective_John_Romero_talks_about_creating_TEd_the_tile_editor_that_shipped_over_30_games.php

8 years ago

Network Effects Manual

https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual

8 years ago