Friday, January 5, 2018

Hacker Newsletter #384

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Issue #384 // January 05, 2018 // View in your browser

Happy New Year! kale

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#Featured


Reading privileged memory with a side-channel //googleprojectzero comments

Intel Confronts Potential 'PR Nightmare' With Reported Chip Flaw //bloomberg comments

The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches //pythonsweetness comments

Intel Responds to Security Research Findings //intel comments

Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack //mozilla comments

Meltdown and Spectre //spectreattack comments

#Favorites


Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
//mnesty comments

Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
//zachaysan comments

Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
//kroy comments

Why things might have taken so long
//meteuphoric comments

Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails
//worrydream comments

Three Years on Google App Engine
//stephanbehnke comments

How I Find Consulting Clients
//gkogan comments

First 100 miles on my E-Bike
//yilunzh comments

How Taiwan transformed its health care system
//nytimes comments

Engineering Habitats for the Moon and Mars
//structuremag comments

Last week's issue
Which I never actually sent, so basically a two for one this week. :)

#Ask HN


What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?

What's your favorite talk from 2017?

What did you work on in 2017?

2018 resolutions?

#Show HN


ASCIIFlow Infinity //asciiflow comments

A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote //mind-circus comments

You are listening to San Francisco //youarelistening comments

Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites //fakespot comments

VidDistill – Automated YouTube Video Summarization Using Captions //herokuapp comments

Rhythm – a daily markdown notebook, calendar, and task list //getarhythm comments

#Code


SQL Keys in Depth //begriffs comments

Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework //svelte comments

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

What I learned in 2017 writing Go //commandercoriander comments

Ben, your benchmarking assistant, written in Go //github comments

#Data


Learning from Scratch by Thinking Fast and Slow //github comments

AI and Deep Learning in 2017 – A Year in Review //wildml comments

My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017 //cachestocaches comments

#Learn


IKEA Effect //wikipedia comments

Teens Aren't Partying Anymore //wired comments

Shanghai sets population at 25M //theguardian comments

Techniques for Factoring Numbers in Your Head //exupero comments

#Books


Good books for deep hacks //begriffs comments

Robust Client-Side JavaScript //molily comments

Probability and Statistics Cookbook [pdf] //wisc comments

Read My Book Notes //readmybooknotes comments

#Watching


HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel //youtube comments

Free electron laser – A fourth-generation synchrotron light source //ccc comments

Statistical Computing for Scientists and Engineers //zabaras comments

Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product //youtube comments

Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis //nvidia comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

NSA's top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg //washingtonpost comments

India's IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year //qz comments

Basecamp doesn't employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did //signalvnoise comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt //stephanbehnke comments

#Longreads


A Very Old Man for a Wolf //outsideonline comments

When Picking Apples on a Farm with 5,000 Rules, Watch Out for the Ladders //nytimes comments

#Fun


Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s //boredpanda comments

Order pizza with random toppings //roulette comments

The Curious Life of an Extra //theatlantic comments

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