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Top of Month - Jan 2018

1. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
   (3 Jan 2018 | 2334 points | Comments)

2. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”
   (22 Jan 2018 | 1854 points | Comments)

3. Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
   (5 Jan 2018 | 1603 points | Comments)

4. Google Memory Loss
   (15 Jan 2018 | 1377 points | Comments)

5. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
   (16 Jan 2018 | 1360 points | Comments)

6. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
   (22 Jan 2018 | 1224 points | Comments)

7. Ursula Le Guin has died
   (23 Jan 2018 | 1125 points | Comments)

8. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
   (30 Jan 2018 | 1070 points | Comments)

9. Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
   (3 Jan 2018 | 1026 points | Comments)

10. Aaron, 5 years later
    (13 Jan 2018 | 1009 points | Comments)

11. Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
    (30 Jan 2018 | 997 points | Comments)

12. The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
    (21 Jan 2018 | 993 points | Comments)

13. Ending Bitcoin Support
    (23 Jan 2018 | 989 points | Comments)

14. The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches
    (1 Jan 2018 | 988 points | Comments)

15. An Experimental Course on Operating Systems
    (12 Jan 2018 | 967 points | Comments)

16. Start Your Own ISP
    (16 Jan 2018 | 938 points | Comments)

17. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler
    (17 Jan 2018 | 912 points | Comments)

18. JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
    (18 Jan 2018 | 906 points | Comments)

19. A letter about Google AMP
    (9 Jan 2018 | 866 points | Comments)

20. “My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”
    (5 Jan 2018 | 860 points | Comments)

21. NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive
    (26 Jan 2018 | 826 points | Comments)

22. NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg
    (3 Jan 2018 | 824 points | Comments)

23. LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
    (19 Jan 2018 | 804 points | Comments)

24. Facebook open-sources Detectron
    (23 Jan 2018 | 801 points | Comments)

25. Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
    (11 Jan 2018 | 794 points | Comments)

26. Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
    (12 Jan 2018 | 788 points | Comments)

27. Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash
    (6 Jan 2018 | 781 points | Comments)

28. Intel Has a Big Problem
    (20 Jan 2018 | 780 points | Comments)

29. Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
    (9 Jan 2018 | 760 points | Comments)

30. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
    (8 Jan 2018 | 759 points | Comments)

31. Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
    (29 Jan 2018 | 757 points | Comments)

32. Waze Carpool
    (25 Jan 2018 | 754 points | Comments)

33. Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
    (30 Jan 2018 | 750 points | Comments)

34. Many packages suddenly disappeared
    (6 Jan 2018 | 749 points | Comments)

35. DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
    (23 Jan 2018 | 727 points | Comments)

36. Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
    (24 Jan 2018 | 726 points | Comments)

37. Wine 3.0 Released
    (18 Jan 2018 | 724 points | Comments)

38. Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites
    (6 Jan 2018 | 720 points | Comments)

39. Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death
    (11 Jan 2018 | 709 points | Comments)

40. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
    (19 Jan 2018 | 699 points | Comments)

41. Strava heatmap can be used to locate military bases
    (28 Jan 2018 | 695 points | Comments)

42. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000
    (15 Jan 2018 | 692 points | Comments)

43. LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
    (29 Jan 2018 | 691 points | Comments)

44. Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
    (10 Jan 2018 | 689 points | Comments)

45. Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive
    (18 Jan 2018 | 662 points | Comments)

46. Show HN: Observable Notebooks
    (31 Jan 2018 | 654 points | Comments)

47. The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
    (16 Jan 2018 | 653 points | Comments)

48. My new favorite book of all time
    (29 Jan 2018 | 651 points | Comments)

49. Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb
    (23 Jan 2018 | 644 points | Comments)

50. Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors
    (2 Jan 2018 | 640 points | Comments)

51. How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
    (26 Jan 2018 | 638 points | Comments)

52. “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
    (22 Jan 2018 | 621 points | Comments)

53. Content-aware image resize library
    (30 Jan 2018 | 614 points | Comments)

54. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
    (8 Jan 2018 | 606 points | Comments)

55. Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access
    (5 Jan 2018 | 603 points | Comments)

56. Is it time for open processors?
    (19 Jan 2018 | 596 points | Comments)

57. Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
    (3 Jan 2018 | 588 points | Comments)

58. Useful Mental Models (2016)
    (8 Jan 2018 | 586 points | Comments)

59. Learn FFmpeg the hard way
    (20 Jan 2018 | 586 points | Comments)

60. Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning
    (10 Jan 2018 | 580 points | Comments)

61. Hetzner Cloud
    (23 Jan 2018 | 579 points | Comments)

62. The day I accidentally killed a little boy
    (9 Jan 2018 | 573 points | Comments)

63. Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning
    (30 Jan 2018 | 573 points | Comments)

64. Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
    (1 Jan 2018 | 572 points | Comments)

65. A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists
    (10 Jan 2018 | 569 points | Comments)

66. Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
    (9 Jan 2018 | 567 points | Comments)

67. Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)
    (3 Jan 2018 | 562 points | Comments)

68. CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games
    (6 Jan 2018 | 561 points | Comments)

69. Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
    (4 Jan 2018 | 551 points | Comments)

70. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies
    (30 Jan 2018 | 551 points | Comments)

71. A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
    (21 Jan 2018 | 545 points | Comments)

72. Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)
    (20 Jan 2018 | 540 points | Comments)

73. WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities
    (6 Jan 2018 | 539 points | Comments)

74. iMac Pro's T2 chip
    (4 Jan 2018 | 538 points | Comments)

75. Laws of UX
    (19 Jan 2018 | 535 points | Comments)

76. GPU Fluid
    (10 Jan 2018 | 532 points | Comments)

77. Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
    (16 Jan 2018 | 532 points | Comments)

78. People leave managers, not companies
    (24 Jan 2018 | 528 points | Comments)

79. System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware
    (17 Jan 2018 | 515 points | Comments)

80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
    (2 Jan 2018 | 513 points | Comments)

81. After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
    (3 Jan 2018 | 511 points | Comments)

82. Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine
    (22 Jan 2018 | 510 points | Comments)

83. Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
    (30 Jan 2018 | 510 points | Comments)

84. Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
    (6 Jan 2018 | 509 points | Comments)

85. Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
    (2 Jan 2018 | 508 points | Comments)

86. Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit
    (2 Jan 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

87. ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol
    (24 Jan 2018 | 504 points | Comments)

88. With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
    (28 Jan 2018 | 503 points | Comments)

89. Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
    (4 Jan 2018 | 502 points | Comments)

90. James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
    (8 Jan 2018 | 502 points | Comments)

91. UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
    (30 Jan 2018 | 501 points | Comments)

92. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018
    (31 Jan 2018 | 497 points | Comments)

93. Extensions in Firefox 59
    (26 Jan 2018 | 496 points | Comments)

94. The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
    (8 Jan 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

95. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
    (30 Jan 2018 | 495 points | Comments)

96. CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
    (14 Jan 2018 | 492 points | Comments)

97. Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere
    (18 Jan 2018 | 489 points | Comments)

98. Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
    (4 Jan 2018 | 483 points | Comments)

99. The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it
    (21 Jan 2018 | 483 points | Comments)

100. Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
     (9 Jan 2018 | 480 points | Comments)