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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

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276 points chei0aiV | 1 comments | 27 Oct 15 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.387s | source
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n0us ◴[27 Oct 15 15:13 UTC] No.10458463[source]▶
I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.
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1. jazzyk ◴[27 Oct 15 17:13 UTC] No.10459478[source]▶
I could even live with the title if the article discussed a certain _aspect_ of a programming language(like Optional in Java 8, etc) to signal a certain vibe of the argument.

But when used wrt a microprocessor/hardware platform, it feels really, really forced. Not the end of the world, but still...