Best of 2020

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2020. 2,277 posts.

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Kubernetes 1.20

We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.20, our third and final release of 2020! This release consists of 42 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 15 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. The 1.20 release cycle returned to its normal cadence of 11…

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Fedora 33

Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of contributors to the Fedora Project: our latest release, Fedora 33, is here! This is a big release with a lot of change, but I believe all that work will also make it a comfortable one, fulfilling our goal of bringing you […]

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TRRespass: Rowhammer against DDR4

Project Description Rowhammer haunted us for the better part of the past decade. Most DDR3 modules were found to be susceptible to this vulnerability which can compromise data directly inside the memory cells. What made it so scary was the fact that it could be exploited from software on PCs, clouds, smartphones, over…