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Top stories
1
Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
2334
2
Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
1854
3
Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
1603
4
Google Memory Loss
1377
5
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1360
6
Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
1224
7
Ursula Le Guin has died
1125
8
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
1070
9
Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
1026
10
Aaron, 5 years later
1009
Top Ask HN
1
Who is hiring? (January 2018)
513
2
5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?
475
3
What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
418
4
What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
397
5
Best introductory video courses on ML and Deep Learning?
323
6
How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI
264
7
My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?
224
8
Is big-endian dead?
202
9
What influenced your personal growth the most?
198
10
2018 resolutions?
176
Top Show HN
1
Observable Notebooks
654
2
Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb
644
3
Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework
410
4
PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
362
5
A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote
341
6
A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check
318
7
A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
316
8
RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac
309
9
A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications
275
10
Paper Programs – Run JavaScript on pieces of paper
235
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
1
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
788
2
Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000
692
3
After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
511
4
James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
502
5
Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
440
6
How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
429
7
Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors
403
8
WhatsApp Encryption Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide into Group Chats
362
9
Netflix is now worth more than $100B
351
10
Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them
328
News [?]
1
Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
1224
2
Ursula Le Guin has died
1125
3
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
1070
4
Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
1026
5
NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg
824
6
Intel Has a Big Problem
780
7
The day I accidentally killed a little boy
573
8
Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)
540
9
Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit
504
10
UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
501
Scientific publications [?]
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Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars
338
2
Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]
254
3
Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology
249
4
Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning
242
5
Casting a $20M Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope [video]
236
6
Complexity Theory, Game Theory, and Economics
208
7
Can We Copy the Brain?
198
8
Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
185
9
Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production
185
10
Non-Convex Optimization for Machine Learning
154
Dev Blogs [?]
1
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
1360
2
Ending Bitcoin Support
989
3
Is it time for open processors?
596
4
Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine
510
5
Extensions in Firefox 59
496
6
Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
483
7
Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
465
8
It’s About Time for Time Series Databases
356
9
Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time
338
10
20 Years of LWN
307
Tech blogs [?]
1
Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
689
2
EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
469
3
California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
291
4
The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year
250
5
Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients
129
6
Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)
107
7
Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W TDP
76
8
Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Launched: HP, Dell, and Intel NUC
71
9
California Police Chiefs Misrepresent License Plate Privacy Bill
68
10
AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technologies Group
59
FAANG+ [?]
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
399
2
iOS 11 Security [pdf]
338
3
Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2
325
4
Building blocks of Amazon ECS
116
5
AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure
115
6
Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances
73
7
HomePod arrives February 9, available to order this Friday
62
8
Apple previews iOS 11.3
45
9
Apple's new minimalistic iPhone site design
43
10
Functional Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
18
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
373
2
Amazon Health
284
3
Amazon Go and the Future
284
4
How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
268
5
Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record
236
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USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise
226
7
The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
219
8
A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map
195
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The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art
161
10
When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships
159
Science News [?]
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Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access
603
2
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
503
3
Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders
275
4
Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
266
5
Evidence that the brain’s ability to control thinking relies on beta rhythms
240
6
Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts
238
7
The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla
222
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The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
214
9
High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness
211
10
The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
198
Social [?]
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“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”
860
2
Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
695
3
The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
653
4
HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]
339
5
An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
287
6
“Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”
265
7
A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe
264
8
CMU 15-721 Advanced Database Systems [video]
252
9
MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning
241
10
Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled
220
Github repos and gists [?]
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Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
760
2
Many packages suddenly disappeared
749
3
Content-aware image resize library
614
4
Learn FFmpeg the hard way
586
5
Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
551
6
Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
532
7
System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware
515
8
Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
466
9
Branchless Doom
454
10
Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100
449
Wikipedia [?]
1
List of oldest companies: Before 1300
416
2
Sussman anomaly
151
3
Wang tile
145
4
Lojban
84
5
Solresol
72
6
Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester
55
7
Transputer
46
8
Akaike information criterion
36
9
Norton I, Emperor of the United States
32
10
Gauss–Markov theorem
14
Blogs [?]
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Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites
720
2
Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)
562
3
Rust in 2018: easier to use
462
4
I think I found a Mac kernel bug?
349
5
Why I left Google to join Grab
311
6
The Making of Apple’s Emoji
261
7
AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford
229
8
Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation
208
9
Taking Equifax to Small Claims Court
194
10
Bitfinex fails to perform promised audits
192
Stackoverflow [?]
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Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
180
2
2018 StackOverflow Developer Survey
13
3
Should application users be database users?
6
4
Closed as non constructive – Best comments in source code according to SO (2011)
5
5
Firefox Web Extensions APIS for Multiple Monitor and Full Screen
5
6
Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
4
7
Squeezing SQLite INSERTs
4
8
Can (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true?
3
9
“Good” SO answer with -36 points for a Python dictionary question
3
10
JavaScript: can you have the statement if(a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) evaluate true?
3
Substack [?]