Hacker News on 4 January 2018

• Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH
• iMac Pro's T2 chip
• Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
• Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
• Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock
• LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack
• Why things might have taken so long
• Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT
• Meltdown and Spectre
• More details about mitigations for the CPU Speculative Execution issue