HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

2334 points by brandon on Jan 3, 2018 | 593 comments

2.

Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” (lkml.iu.edu)

1854 points by Valmar on Jan 22, 2018 | 656 comments

3.

Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown (raspberrypi.org)

1603 points by MikusR on Jan 5, 2018 | 215 comments

4.

Google Memory Loss (tbray.org)

1377 points by AndrewDucker on Jan 15, 2018 | 539 comments

5.

Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality (blog.mozilla.org)

1360 points by lainon on Jan 16, 2018 | 186 comments

6.

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal (thehill.com)

1224 points by erict15 on Jan 22, 2018 | 153 comments

7.

Ursula Le Guin has died (nytimes.com)

1125 points by sampo on Jan 23, 2018 | 188 comments

8.

Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company (bloomberg.com)

1070 points by uptown on Jan 30, 2018 | 520 comments

9.

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw (bloomberg.com)

1026 points by el_duderino on Jan 3, 2018 | 543 comments

10.

Aaron, 5 years later (bensw.com)

1009 points by bensw on Jan 13, 2018 | 108 comments

11.

Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS (redhat.com)

997 points by noahl on Jan 30, 2018 | 197 comments

12.

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018 (dwmkerr.com)

993 points by Sandman on Jan 21, 2018 | 441 comments

13.

Ending Bitcoin Support (stripe.com)

989 points by uptown on Jan 23, 2018 | 625 comments

14.

The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches (pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)

988 points by KirinDave on Jan 1, 2018 | 254 comments

15.

An Experimental Course on Operating Systems (web.stanford.edu)

967 points by jzoch on Jan 12, 2018 | 243 comments

16.

Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp.com)

938 points by tomcam on Jan 16, 2018 | 193 comments

17.

Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler (hacks.mozilla.org)

912 points by markdog12 on Jan 17, 2018 | 220 comments

18.

JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake (jspaint.ml)

906 points by hjek on Jan 18, 2018 | 248 comments

19.

A letter about Google AMP (ampletter.org)

866 points by lainon on Jan 9, 2018 | 346 comments

20.

“My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims” (twitter.com)

860 points by ryanlol on Jan 5, 2018 | 241 comments

21.

NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive (skyriddles.wordpress.com)

826 points by sohkamyung on Jan 26, 2018 | 91 comments

22.

NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg (washingtonpost.com)

824 points by sea6ear on Jan 3, 2018 | 514 comments

23.

LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections (objective-see.com)

804 points by mcone on Jan 19, 2018 | 238 comments

24.

Facebook open-sources Detectron (research.fb.com)

801 points by rmason on Jan 23, 2018 | 178 comments

25.

Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype (signal.org)

794 points by Aissen on Jan 11, 2018 | 331 comments

26.

Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)

788 points by ValentineC on Jan 12, 2018 | 317 comments

27.

Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash (zwischenzugs.com)

781 points by zwischenzug on Jan 6, 2018 | 268 comments

28.

Intel Has a Big Problem (bloomberg.com)

780 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 20, 2018 | 337 comments

29.

Meltdown Proof-of-Concept (github.com)

760 points by __init on Jan 9, 2018 | 174 comments

30.

The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds (theglobeandmail.com)

759 points by mmayberry on Jan 8, 2018 | 463 comments