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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

2334

2

Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

1603

3

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

1026

4

The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches

988

5

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”

860

6

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg

824

7

Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash

781

8

Many packages suddenly disappeared

749

9

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites

720

10

Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

640

Top Ask HN

1

Who is hiring? (January 2018)

513

2

What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

418

3

2018 resolutions?

176

4

How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?

156

5

What's the best textbook you've read?

135

6

Delay buying new devices due to Meltdown/Spectre CPU bug?

114

7

Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?

113

8

How can we improve the world via creative, compassionate new ventures?

107

9

What are you doing for your mental health?

102

10

What are some interesting books you read in 2017?

91

Top Show HN

1

Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework

410

2

PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

362

3

A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote

341

4

A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check

318

5

HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

208

6

Eel – a simple Python library for making little HTML GUI applications

201

7

An illustration of Web Developer tools in 2018

130

8

Ipfs-dropzone, a subclass of Dropzone.js that publishes to IPFS

109

9

detecting cache latency inside a Web browser

107

10

Mask R-CNN Neural Network for Mapping Sport Fields in OpenStreetMap

94

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband

511

2

Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017

268

3

As of today, no US passenger airlines operate the Boeing 747

266

4

Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore

245

5

Yes, Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine

206

6

How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spectre and Meltdown

196

7

Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B

188

8

FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order

140

9

Eelo: A Google-less Android alternative emerges

111

10

Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown

107

News [?]

1

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

1026

2

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg

824

3

Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit

504

4

Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock

468

5

Spotify files for its IPO

411

6

Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care

324

7

Kenichi Yamamoto has died

275

8

Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms about the power of tech

250

9

A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370

246

10

After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress

242

Scientific publications [?]

1

Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning

242

2

Complexity Theory, Game Theory, and Economics

208

3

Inequality in nature and society

145

4

Why people believe others' social lives are richer than their own

117

5

Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (2016)

104

6

Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' becoming practical?

94

7

Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal [pdf]

85

8

EUV Lithography Finally Ready for Chip Manufacturing

72

9

Chemists provide theoretical interpretation to understand chemical reactions

65

10

Robust and Efficient Elimination of Cache and Timing Side Channels (2015)

55

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack

483

2

Notes from the Intelpocalypse

288

3

203

4

Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available

166

5

Initial Performance Benchmarks of Linux's x86 Security Changes

163

6

World Leaders on Twitter

73

7

Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes

56

8

Linux Performance in some benchmarks halved after recent security changes

19

9

A Purified Implementation of NVM-Express Storage

16

10

The Top JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2018

12

Tech blogs [?]

1

California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality

291

2

Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics: Core I7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W TDP

76

3

California Senate to Hear EFF’s License Plate Cover Bill

28

4

Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in MacOS 10.13.2

10

5

Apple Confirms 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' Vulnerabilities Impact Macs and iOS

9

6

RISC-V Foundation Trumpets Open-Source ISAs in Wake of Meltdown, Spectre

7

7

RISC-V CPU is not vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre

6

8

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

4

9

Apple's $29 Battery Replacement Could Lead to 16M Fewer iPhones Sold in 2018

4

10

Apple likely to repatriate $200B and potentially buy Netflix

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS Statement: Processor Speculative Execution Research Disclosure

115

2

Build Amazon SageMaker Notebooks Backed by Spark in Amazon EMR

12

3

The Wheel – AWS Open Source Blog

5

4

The Top 20 Most Viewed AWS IAM Documentation Pages in 2017

3

5

NET Application Architecture Guidance

3

6

Amazon Assistant: Chrome extension that adds Amazon products to Google results

2

7

Integrating AWS CloudFormation with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

2

8

SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines [pdf] (2009)

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record

236

2

A photographer captures the paths that birds make across the sky

72

3

Tesla Model 3: Review

27

4

Good Managers Are So Rare

24

5

$10 quantum dots change the color of light and lower the cost of electricity 34%

13

6

What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)

7

7

Tesla Model 3 – The first serious review

5

8

Tesla Model 3 – Your questions answered

5

9

To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

4

10

A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

4

Science News [?]

1

Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access

603

2

Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’

266

3

The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla

222

4

High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness

211

5

Increased amygdala responses after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression

184

6

You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else

183

7

Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (2016)

122

8

Diabetes drug 'significantly reverses memory loss' in mice with Alzheimer's

101

9

Deep learning sharpens views of cells and genes

89

10

Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter

80

Social [?]

1

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”

860

2

HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video]

339

3

“Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase”

265

4

Bitcoin Visa debit cards are cancelled

220

5

Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product [video]

162

6

macOS 10.13.3 fixes the Intel KPTI issue

101

7

New York City in 1993 in HD – DTheater DVHS Demo Tape [video]

91

8

Moonlight Sonata Visualized (2012) [video]

89

9

Bingo #kpti #intelbug

47

10

Using Meltdown to steal passwords in real-time

27

Github repos and gists [?]

1

Many packages suddenly disappeared

749

2

Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

551

3

Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra

332

4

Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

298

5

Python decorators they don't tell you about

281

6

Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments

178

7

Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of Java applications

164

8

GNU/Linux local username triggers Steam VAC ban

158

9

157

10

A Real-Time Mario Kart AI Using CNNs, Offline Search, and Dagger

152

Wikipedia [?]

1

145

2

Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester

55

3

List of Conjectures of Paul Erdos

4

4

4

5

Periodical cicadas

3

6

List of films featuring time loops

3

7

Mercalli earthquake intensity scale

3

8

Harvard architecture

2

9

PlayStation 3 clustering

2

10

Metric Expansion of Space

2

Blogs [?]

1

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites

720

2

Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)

562

3

AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford

229

4

Genetic Study Supports Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity

160

5

How does GDB call functions?

160

6

Testing Microservices the sane way

160

7

Why I Still Use Vim

147

8

How the Å came to be

144

9

Getting started with microservices and kubernetes

101

10

My journey with Rust in 2017 — The good, the bad, the weird

85

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Should application users be database users?

6

2

Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?

2

3

Mysterious JavaScript results in iOS Safari when eval'ing Object?

2

4

How do you save state in a web app before a user navigates away?

1

5

Angular Router: Route Resolver and the Impact on the UX

1

Substack [?]