top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-01-29

Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-disables-spectre-mitigations-due-instability

8 years ago

LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware

https://www.linuxboot.org/

8 years ago

My new favorite book of all time

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now

8 years ago

Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-and-battery-storage-cheaper-than-coal-83151/

8 years ago

Ask HN: 5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261136

8 years ago

EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/round-effs-advocacy-against-border-device-searches

8 years ago

Software Complexity Is Killing Us

https://www.simplethread.com/software-complexity-killing-us/

8 years ago

Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018

http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/26/v2-launch/

8 years ago

The paradigms of programming

https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/29/the-paradigms-of-programming/

8 years ago

Godot 3.0 game engine released

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-0-released

8 years ago

PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

http://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdf

8 years ago

Ten days in Shenzhen

http://www.karimyaghmour.com/blog/2018/01/ten-days-in-shenzhen.html

8 years ago

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)

https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/

8 years ago

Self-Crashing Cars

https://www.zachaysan.com/writing/2018-01-17-self-crashing-cars

8 years ago

How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M

https://thatoddmailbox.github.io/2017/01/28/iotaseed.html

8 years ago

The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-expensive-to-build-urban-rail-in-the-us/551408/

8 years ago

Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im

https://blog.status.im/status-invests-5m-in-riot-im-4e3026a8bd50

8 years ago

Minigo: An open-source implementation of the AlphaGo Zero algorithm

https://github.com/tensorflow/minigo

8 years ago

★ 3.5k C++ Apache-2.0

MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution

http://blog.chiariglione.org/2018/01/28/

8 years ago

Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production

http://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/E715.full

8 years ago

Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/

8 years ago

Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse merger with VMware

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/dell-is-considering-a-sale-to-vmware-in-what-may-be-techs-biggest-deal.html

8 years ago

Why Personas Fail

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-personas-fail/

8 years ago

Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee

http://planetbanatt.net/articles/ambistats.html

8 years ago

Linear logic and deep learning [pdf]

http://therisingsea.org/notes/talk-lldl-transcript.pdf

8 years ago

Clive OS: Go applications that can run without an operating system (2016)

http://lsub.org/ls/clive.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSON

http://mitchkeenan.com/cardproxy/

8 years ago

Paxos derived

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/01/paxos-derived.html

8 years ago

Outperforming LAPACK with C++ metaprogramming

http://wordsandbuttons.online/vastly_outperforming_lapack_with_cpp_metaprogramming.html

8 years ago

Designing Distributed Systems E-Book

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/designing-distributed-systems/en-us/

8 years ago

Drones that can plant 100k trees a day

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/drones-plant-100000-trees-a-day?utm_content=buffer6368b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8 years ago

Why I find IOTA alarming

https://medium.com/@thedrbits/why-i-also-find-iota-deeply-alarming-99d4f2da3282

8 years ago

Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/the-internet-of-omg-vulnerable-factory-and-power-grid-controls-on-internet/

8 years ago

6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

http://introtodeeplearning.com/

8 years ago

A therapy chatbot and app for depression and anxiety

http://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-therapy-chatbot-app-depression-anxiety-woebot-2018-1

8 years ago

CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation

https://github.com/dotnet/corert

8 years ago

★ 2.8k C# MIT

Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (2015)

https://priceonomics.com/how-to-be-a-lawyer-without-going-to-law-school/

8 years ago

Audio Adversarial Examples

https://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/

8 years ago

A16z Monthly Newsletter: Good things come in threes

https://mailchi.mp/a16z/trends-good-things-come-in-threes?e=ae2d556dd1

8 years ago

Fears grow over Tether ‘printing press’ as auditors part ways

http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/without-this-scam-bitcoin-price-would-collapse-fears-grow-over-tether-printing-press-as-auditors-part-ways/news-story/308503ab61f82d320e92847a0b59a23b

8 years ago

Primg – Generate prime numbers whose binary representation looks like any image

https://geonnave.github.io/primg/

8 years ago

High Performance Browser Networking (2013)

https://hpbn.co/

8 years ago

Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017)

http://climbers.net/sbc/easy-laser-cut-electronics-cases/

8 years ago

America's Love Affair with Avocado

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735656-raising-production-meet-demand-will-be-tricky-droughts-storms-and-global-demand-tests

8 years ago

TomTom ditches map updates for some sat-navs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/42859546

8 years ago

Blockshell – A minimal blockchain learning CLI

https://github.com/daxeel/blockshell

8 years ago

★ 1.3k HTML MIT

‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. It didn’t exist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/12/08/it-was-londons-top-rated-restaurant-just-one-problem-it-didnt-exist/

8 years ago

GDPR and Google Analytics

https://adactio.com/journal/13364

8 years ago

The Open Sourcerer's Magic Spell Book

https://www.javascriptjanuary.com/blog/the-open-sourcerers-magic-spell-book

8 years ago