866
346
A letter about Google AMP
http://ampletter.org/
8 years ago
760
174
Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown/
★ 4.1kCZlib–8 years ago
573
654
The day I accidentally killed a little boy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42309681
567
111
Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm
480
222
Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/incredible-events-at-browserling/
470
330
Building for the Blockchain
http://blog.ycombinator.com/building-for-the-blockchain/
461
77
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/
406
184
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
397
285
What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
365
383
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
343
32
Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly
http://kakaroto.homelinux.net/2017/11/introduction-to-reverse-engineering-and-assembly/
284
94
We Used Broadband Data We Shouldn’t Have
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-used-broadband-data-we-shouldnt-have-heres-what-went-wrong/
271
75
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
259
193
Birth Order Effects Exist and Are Strong
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/08/fight-me-psychologists-birth-order-effects-exist-and-are-very-strong/
239
152
Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead
https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-is-dead-so-are-chatbots/
226
57
Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways
https://ftfy.now.sh/
219
37
Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft (2017)
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
208
12
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
207
119
Introducing the new SourceForge
https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge/
203
76
What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company
http://jayshah.me/2018/01/05/board/
202
36
Toapi – Let any web site provide APIs
http://www.toapi.org
198
173
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
196
172
Slack is down
https://status.slack.com/
195
A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vast-map-planisphereurbano-monte-places-creatures-real-imagined
190
134
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
188
101
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
187
157
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
185
45
The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=39048
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
178
132
TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_creator_is_now_homeless/
155
126
Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next week
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/intel-ces/
153
43
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
146
51
WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced
https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements
When Does Work Actually Get Done?
https://priceonomics.com/when-does-work-actually-get-done/
145
26
Firefox: Retained Display Lists
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/retained-display-lists/
25
Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
https://data.hooks.co
141
46
Introducing the new Google Search Console
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2018/01/introducing-new-search-console.html
138
30
Rubbish (2002)
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1616-rubbish.html-2
127
66
Confidential metrics for Snapchat features
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-data-snapchat-doesnt-want-you-to-see
125
21
Git Exercises
https://gitexercises.fracz.com/
122
8
CPUs: information leak using speculative execution (2017)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1272
115
33
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/
107
89
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
106
11
An array of eight SN76489 sound chips playable via USB MIDI
http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2018/01/oct-sn76489-midi-array.html
104
133
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
102
87
China wants an orderly exit from Bitcoin mining
https://qz.com/1174091/china-wants-an-orderly-exit-from-bitcoin-mining/
96
108
Improving URLs for AMP Pages
https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/improving-urls-for-amp-pages/
19
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
7
Rails and Revenue: Building a Screencast Business
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/8999c7ac7f
88
97
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
85
Show HN: Plait.py – a fake data modeler
https://github.com/plaitpy/plaitpy
★ 435PythonMIT–8 years ago
83
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
82
4
Network Effects Manual
https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual
James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died
