top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-10-08

Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/

8 years ago

Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194

8 years ago

Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164189

8 years ago

Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-and-webassembly-are-finally-fast-%f0%9f%8e%89/

8 years ago

Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died

https://medium.com/@webwright/today-is-my-wifes-first-birthday-since-she-died-7369944c43ec

8 years ago

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/technology/tech-workers-ask-censorship-surveillance.html

8 years ago

Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

https://alan-platform.com/pages/tuts/introducing.html

8 years ago

How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/

8 years ago

Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-lowest-probability-injury-any-vehicle-ever-tested-nhtsa

8 years ago

H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/08/h-1b-as-immigration-furor-roils-silicon-valley-canada-smoothes-way-for-techies/

8 years ago

How newlines affect Linux kernel performance

https://nadav.amit.zone/blog/linux-inline

8 years ago

French intelligence officer caught selling confidential data on the dark web

https://www.zdnet.com/article/french-police-officer-caught-selling-confidential-police-data-on-the-dark-web

8 years ago

Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854094848?s=21

8 years ago

Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2018/10/hubble-space-te.html

8 years ago

Bpftrace for Linux 2018

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux-2018.html

8 years ago

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-quantum-verification-problem-20181008/

8 years ago

Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/05/recipes/

8 years ago

Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-08/google-drops-out-of-pentagon-s-10-billion-cloud-competition

8 years ago

Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

8 years ago

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html

8 years ago