top 20 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

Learn FFmpeg the hard way

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

8 years ago

★ 10.9k C BSD-3-Clause

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

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

https://github.com/relativty/Relativ

8 years ago

★ 7.1k C++ GPL-3.0

NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

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

8 years ago

JS things I didn’t know existed

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

8 years ago

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

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

Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]

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

8 years ago

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

Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft

https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-over-300-million-end-users

8 years ago

Advanced Distributed Systems

https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/index.html

8 years ago

BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging

https://www.cnet.com/g00/roadshow/news/bmw-carplay-fee-highway-robbery/

8 years ago

MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language

http://www.minizinc.org/

8 years ago

Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister

http://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/19/switzerland-become-crypto-nation-says-minister

8 years ago

Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/obituaries/paul-bocuse-dead.html

8 years ago

How PayPal Shares Your Data

http://rebecca-ricks.com/paypal-data/

8 years ago

PostgreSQL 10: Partitions of partitions

https://joaodlf.com/postgresql-10-partitions-of-partitions.html?utm_source=hackernews

8 years ago

Command Line Heroes Podcast

https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes

8 years ago

Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016)

http://nautil.us/blog/-this-is-why-understanding-space-is-so-hard

8 years ago