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1.		iMac Pro's T2 chip (macworld.com)
		538 points by lumisota on Jan 4, 2018 \| 279 comments
2.		Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits (intel.com)
		502 points by runesoerensen on Jan 4, 2018 \| 389 comments
3.		Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack (blog.mozilla.org)
		483 points by Nrbelex on Jan 4, 2018 \| 110 comments
4.		More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue (googleblog.com)
		327 points by el_duderino on Jan 4, 2018 \| 90 comments
5.		Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock (businessinsider.com)
		468 points by MollyR on Jan 4, 2018 \| 85 comments
6.		Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT (github.com/paragonie)
		362 points by CiPHPerCoder on Jan 4, 2018 \| 138 comments
7.		Announcing the OpenWrt/LEDE merge (lede-project.org)
		312 points by kylegordon on Jan 4, 2018 \| 111 comments
8.		Why things might have taken so long (meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
		424 points by blonky on Jan 4, 2018 \| 190 comments
9.		HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
		339 points by rayshan on Jan 3, 2018 \| 26 comments
10.		Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system (righto.com)
		240 points by jjwiseman on Jan 4, 2018 \| 64 comments
11.		Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time (rescuetime.com)
		271 points by jorymackay on Jan 4, 2018 \| 150 comments
12.		LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack (llvm.org)
		433 points by Kristine1975 on Jan 4, 2018 \| 242 comments
13.		Introducing Preemptible GPUs (googleblog.com)
		240 points by boulos on Jan 4, 2018 \| 80 comments
14.		Ink/stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design (inkstitch.org)
		155 points by buovjaga on Jan 4, 2018 \| 20 comments
15.		How and why we teach non-engineers to use GitHub at Thread (thread.engineering)
		168 points by danpalmer on Jan 4, 2018 \| 86 comments
16.		Techniques for Factoring Numbers in Your Head (exupero.org)
		218 points by exupero on Jan 4, 2018 \| 36 comments
17.		Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music (openculture.com)
		182 points by lnguyen on Jan 4, 2018 \| 78 comments
18.		Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016) (spacetelescope.org)
		178 points by mkempe on Jan 4, 2018 \| 153 comments
19.		Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism (arm.com)
		193 points by subbu88 on Jan 4, 2018 \| 60 comments
20.		Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme (chrome.google.com)
		208 points by caroherm on Jan 3, 2018 \| 80 comments
21.		Algorithm efficiency comes from problem information (stochasticlifestyle.com)
		109 points by ChrisRackauckas on Jan 4, 2018 \| 28 comments
22.		How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos (nytimes.com)
		197 points by gk1 on Jan 4, 2018 \| 81 comments
23.		GitHub acquires AppCanary (appcanary.com)
		160 points by marcc on Jan 4, 2018 \| 28 comments
24.		XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available (bartongeorge.io)
		244 points by warp on Jan 4, 2018 \| 406 comments
25.		You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else (nautil.us)
		183 points by dnetesn on Jan 4, 2018 \| 109 comments
26.		Microprocessor Design (2017) (wikibooks.org)
		184 points by kercker on Jan 4, 2018 \| 54 comments
27.		Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of Java applications (github.com/graalvm)
		164 points by ianopolous on Jan 4, 2018 \| 56 comments
28.		Wi-Fi startup Eero lays off 30 employees (techcrunch.com)
		99 points by nickmain on Jan 4, 2018 \| 125 comments
29.		Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” Radio Broadcasts Re-Recorded (aperiodical.com)
		136 points by sohkamyung on Jan 4, 2018 \| 33 comments
30.		Frontmacs (github.com/thefrontside)
		157 points by jimyl on Jan 4, 2018 \| 96 comments
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