This sort of article makes me loose faith in hackernews. It's 166 points by now and getting more, yet when you look at the code it's obviously fake. It does not

This sort of article makes me loose faith in hackernews. It's 166 points by now and getting more, yet when you look at the code it's obviously fake. It does not do anything. Why people who cannot confirm or deny such claims upvote this? You don't even have to read the code - it's blatantly obvious you cannot have an exploit using a bug in CPU cache strategy that affects all the JS vendors!!!