The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2018

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Reading privileged memory with a side-channel googleprojectzero.blogspot.com · brandon · 3 Jan 2018

2.3k pts 593 comments

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Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” lkml.iu.edu · Valmar · 22 Jan 2018

1.9k pts 656 comments

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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown raspberrypi.org · TiredOfLife · 5 Jan 2018

1.6k pts 215 comments

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Google Memory Loss tbray.org · AndrewDucker · 15 Jan 2018

1.4k pts 539 comments

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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality blog.mozilla.org · lainon · 16 Jan 2018

1.4k pts 186 comments

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Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal thehill.com · erict15 · 22 Jan 2018

1.2k pts 153 comments

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Ursula Le Guin has died nytimes.com · sampo · 23 Jan 2018

1.1k pts 188 comments

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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company bloomberg.com · uptown · 30 Jan 2018

1.1k pts 520 comments

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Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw bloomberg.com · el_duderino · 3 Jan 2018

1k pts 543 comments

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Aaron, 5 years later bensw.com · bensw · 13 Jan 2018

1k pts 108 comments

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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS redhat.com · noahl · 30 Jan 2018

997 pts 197 comments

12

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 dwmkerr.com · Sandman · 21 Jan 2018

993 pts 441 comments

13

Ending Bitcoin Support stripe.com · uptown · 23 Jan 2018

989 pts 625 comments

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The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches pythonsweetness.tumblr.com · KirinDave · 1 Jan 2018

988 pts 254 comments

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An Experimental Course on Operating Systems web.stanford.edu · jzoch · 12 Jan 2018

967 pts 243 comments

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Start Your Own ISP startyourownisp.com · tomcam · 16 Jan 2018

938 pts 193 comments

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Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler hacks.mozilla.org · markdog12 · 17 Jan 2018

912 pts 220 comments

18

JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake jspaint.ml · hjek · 18 Jan 2018

906 pts 248 comments

19

A letter about Google AMP ampletter.org · lainon · 9 Jan 2018

866 pts 346 comments

20

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims” twitter.com · ryanlol · 5 Jan 2018

860 pts 241 comments

21

NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive skyriddles.wordpress.com · sohkamyung · 26 Jan 2018

826 pts 91 comments

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NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg washingtonpost.com · sea6ear · 3 Jan 2018

824 pts 514 comments

23

LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections objective-see.com · mcone · 19 Jan 2018

804 pts 238 comments

24

Facebook open-sources Detectron research.fb.com · rmason · 23 Jan 2018

801 pts 178 comments

25

Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype signal.org · Aissen · 11 Jan 2018

794 pts 331 comments

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Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea qz.com · ValentineC · 12 Jan 2018

788 pts 317 comments

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Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash zwischenzugs.com · zwischenzug · 6 Jan 2018

781 pts 268 comments

28

Intel Has a Big Problem bloomberg.com · MilnerRoute · 20 Jan 2018

780 pts 337 comments

29

Meltdown Proof-of-Concept github.com · __init · 9 Jan 2018

760 pts 174 comments

30

The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds theglobeandmail.com · mmayberry · 8 Jan 2018

759 pts 463 comments

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Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability securityweek.com · tomtoise · 29 Jan 2018

757 pts 315 comments

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Waze Carpool waze.com · artsandsci · 25 Jan 2018

754 pts 390 comments

33

Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] recurse.com · davidbalbert · 30 Jan 2018

750 pts 295 comments

34

Many packages suddenly disappeared github.com · xxkylexx · 6 Jan 2018

749 pts 492 comments

35

DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing spreadprivacy.com · brisance · 23 Jan 2018

727 pts 322 comments

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Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds ac.els-cdn.com · bcaulfield · 24 Jan 2018

726 pts 386 comments

37

Wine 3.0 Released winehq.org · etiam · 18 Jan 2018

724 pts 222 comments

38

Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites medium.com · swyx · 6 Jan 2018

720 pts 121 comments

39

Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death saaronm · 11 Jan 2018

709 pts 82 comments

40

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) johnsalvatier.org · rgun · 19 Jan 2018

699 pts 294 comments

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Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases twitter.com · domoritz · 28 Jan 2018

695 pts 267 comments

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Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000 techcrunch.com · middle1 · 15 Jan 2018

692 pts 190 comments

43

LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware linuxboot.org · doener · 29 Jan 2018

691 pts 178 comments

44

Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime eff.org · uptown · 10 Jan 2018

689 pts 161 comments

45

Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive strongtowns.org · oftenwrong · 18 Jan 2018

662 pts 415 comments

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Show HN: Observable Notebooks beta.observablehq.com · jashkenas · 31 Jan 2018

654 pts 128 comments

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The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday twitter.com · robin_reala · 16 Jan 2018

653 pts 363 comments

48

My new favorite book of all time gatesnotes.com · yarapavan · 29 Jan 2018

651 pts 396 comments

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Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb eliotand.me · sdubois · 23 Jan 2018

644 pts 166 comments

50

Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors lkml.org · fanf2 · 2 Jan 2018

640 pts 293 comments

51

How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017) c0ffee.net · j_s · 26 Jan 2018

638 pts 325 comments

52

“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York marginalrevolution.com · pjc50 · 22 Jan 2018

621 pts 207 comments

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Content-aware image resize library github.com · boyter · 30 Jan 2018

614 pts 78 comments

54

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 randomascii.wordpress.com · nikbackm · 8 Jan 2018

606 pts 76 comments

55

Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access nature.com · delib · 5 Jan 2018

603 pts 143 comments

56

Is it time for open processors? lwn.net · signa11 · 19 Jan 2018

596 pts 234 comments

57

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings newsroom.intel.com · runesoerensen · 3 Jan 2018

588 pts 229 comments

58

Learn FFmpeg the hard way github.com · dreampeppers99 · 20 Jan 2018

586 pts 79 comments

59

Useful Mental Models (2016) defmacro.org · Mougatine · 8 Jan 2018

586 pts 73 comments

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Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning blog.floydhub.com · narenst · 10 Jan 2018

580 pts 116 comments