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1. Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown (raspberrypi.org)
1603 points by TiredOfLife on Jan 5, 2018 | 215 comments
2. Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access (nature.com)
603 points by delib on Jan 5, 2018 | 143 comments
3. AMD PSP: Firmware TPM Remote Code Execution via Crafted EK Certificate (seclists.org)
243 points by transpute on Jan 5, 2018 | 90 comments
4. Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH (github.com/tombh)
551 points by sandebert on Jan 4, 2018 | 92 comments
5. GitMask – Develop Anonymously (gitmask.com)
285 points by josephscott on Jan 5, 2018 | 115 comments
6. “My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims” (twitter.com/littlescale)
860 points by ryanlol on Jan 5, 2018 | 241 comments
7. Generative Adversarial Networks Code in PyTorch and Tensorflow (github.com/diegoalejogm)
139 points by diegoalejogm on Jan 5, 2018 | 6 comments
8. Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family (ibm.com)
173 points by newman314 on Jan 5, 2018 | 33 comments
9. AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford (medium.com/the-ai-lab)
229 points by mostafab on Jan 5, 2018 | 99 comments
10. AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction (opensuse.org)
242 points by hlandau on Jan 5, 2018 | 173 comments
11. Idyll Language – Author interactive narratives for the web (idyll-lang.org)
113 points by iamwil on Jan 5, 2018 | 22 comments
12. “Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007) (marc.info)
325 points by pixelmonkey on Jan 5, 2018 | 118 comments
13. The case against GDP: time to change the way we measure the wealth of nations (ft.com)
234 points by fmihaila on Jan 5, 2018 | 216 comments
14. Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia (bioone.org)
296 points by robin_reala on Jan 5, 2018 | 252 comments
15. The State of Vacuum in Postgres (rhaas.blogspot.com)
169 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 5, 2018 | 52 comments
16. Mailgun Security Incident and Important Customer Information (mailgun.com)
187 points by _kcn8 on Jan 5, 2018 | 59 comments
17. About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs (support.apple.com)
228 points by gok on Jan 5, 2018 | 104 comments
18. SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System (symbos.de)
204 points by Paul_S on Jan 5, 2018 | 98 comments
19. Meltdown fix impact on Redis performances in virtualized environments (gist.github.com)
178 points by ABS on Jan 5, 2018 | 73 comments
20. Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf] (intel.com)
380 points by bcantrill on Jan 5, 2018 | 34 comments
21. Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No (nytimes.com)
164 points by deadbunny on Jan 4, 2018 | 181 comments
22. TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly (teavm.org)
195 points by entelechy on Jan 5, 2018 | 126 comments
23. Update on Meltdown and Spectre (coinbase.com)
209 points by jorde on Jan 5, 2018 | 100 comments
24. ‎Chromium Security‎: Site Isolation (chromium.org)
94 points by tony101 on Jan 5, 2018 | 35 comments
25. WebGraphviz: Graphviz in the Browser (webgraphviz.com)
171 points by sillysaurus3 on Jan 5, 2018 | 21 comments
26. A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4 (2015) (andreykurenkov.com)
145 points by sytelus on Jan 5, 2018 | 7 comments
27. Fantastic Timers: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JS (2017) [pdf] (gruss.cc)
89 points by jhatax on Jan 5, 2018 | 34 comments
28. The dawn of online piracy (2015) (newyorker.com)
115 points by bckygldstn on Jan 4, 2018 | 49 comments
29. Neurovis: Visualizing brain signals in 3D in real-time (neuropro.ch)
109 points by breck on Jan 5, 2018 | 56 comments
30. In pursuit of Otama's tone (2017) (windytan.com)
67 points by qrohlf on Jan 4, 2018 | 11 comments

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