top 10 hacker news stories for 2018-01-20

Intel Has a Big Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it

8 years ago

780 upvotes – 337 comments

Learn FFmpeg the hard way

https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial#learn-ffmpeg-libav-the-hard-way

8 years ago

★ 10.9kCBSD-3-Clause
586 upvotes – 79 comments

Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/upshot/training-your-brain-so-that-you-dont-need-reading-glasses.html

8 years ago

540 upvotes – 137 comments

Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100

https://github.com/relativty/Relativ

8 years ago

★ 7.1kC++GPL-3.0
449 upvotes – 84 comments

NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/nsa-deletes-surveillance-data-351730

8 years ago

278 upvotes – 78 comments

JS things I didn’t know existed

https://air.ghost.io/js-things-i-never-knew-existed/

8 years ago

275 upvotes – 98 comments

A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exist_a_prime_number_whose/

8 years ago

264 upvotes – 76 comments

Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan

https://qz.com/1180434/europes-central-banks-are-starting-to-replace-us-dollar-reserves-with-the-chinese-yuan/

8 years ago

241 upvotes – 244 comments

Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2952-a/papers/perspective.pdf

8 years ago

235 upvotes – 66 comments

British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence, pretending to be head of CIA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/19/british-15-year-old-gained-access-intelligence-operations-afghanistan

8 years ago

215 upvotes – 78 comments
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