top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-10-08

Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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

7 years ago

1613 upvotes – 699 comments

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

7 years ago

953 upvotes – 258 comments

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

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

7 years ago

911 upvotes – 1088 comments

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/

7 years ago

907 upvotes – 143 comments

Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died

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

7 years ago

517 upvotes – 86 comments

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

7 years ago

418 upvotes – 339 comments

Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

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

7 years ago

413 upvotes – 173 comments

How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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

7 years ago

352 upvotes – 174 comments

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

7 years ago

322 upvotes – 185 comments

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/

7 years ago

304 upvotes – 358 comments

How newlines affect Linux kernel performance

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

7 years ago

287 upvotes – 42 comments

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

7 years ago

277 upvotes – 86 comments

Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good

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

7 years ago

276 upvotes – 124 comments

Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure

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

7 years ago

274 upvotes – 132 comments

Bpftrace for Linux 2018

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

7 years ago

268 upvotes – 21 comments

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

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

7 years ago

267 upvotes – 24 comments

Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers

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

7 years ago

251 upvotes – 104 comments

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

7 years ago

249 upvotes – 98 comments

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/

7 years ago

246 upvotes – 32 comments

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

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 167 comments

Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13401/intel-9th-gen-cpus-9900k-9700k-9600k

7 years ago

217 upvotes – 219 comments

Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio

https://github.com/jlaine/aiortc/

7 years ago

★ 145PythonBSD-3-Clause
216 upvotes – 51 comments

The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/cutler

7 years ago

202 upvotes – 96 comments

How WeChat faded into the silence in India

https://factordaily.com/how-wechat-faded-into-the-silence-in-india/

7 years ago

181 upvotes – 45 comments

FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/will-drones-and-planes-be-treated-as-equals-by-faa/

7 years ago

162 upvotes – 225 comments

Nvtop: Nvidia GPU htop-like monitoring tool

https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

7 years ago

★ 10.5kC
150 upvotes – 20 comments

Apple Bloomberg Congressional Letter

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4995755-Apple-Bloomberg-Congressional-Letter.html

7 years ago

145 upvotes – 100 comments

A RISC-V chip with built-in neural networks

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/new-part-day-the-risc-v-chip-with-built-in-neural-networks/

7 years ago

138 upvotes – 19 comments

A Comparison of Functional Data Structures on the JVM

https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/doc/comparison.md

7 years ago

★ 1kJavaMIT
122 upvotes – 17 comments

Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research

http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/programming-interaction/

7 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

Google hid major Google+ security flaw that exposed users’ personal information

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17951914/google-plus-data-breach-exposed-user-profile-information-privacy-not-disclosed

7 years ago

117 upvotes – 21 comments

Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/

7 years ago

115 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Firebase2graphql – Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/tree/master/community/tools/firebase2graphql

7 years ago

★ 31.9kTypeScriptApache-2.0
114 upvotes – 11 comments

Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling

https://portal.facebook.com/

7 years ago

114 upvotes – 71 comments

More Than One in Four Home-Sellers Dropped Their Price Last Month

https://www.redfin.com/blog/2018/09/more-than-one-in-four-home-sellers-dropped-their-price-last-month.html

7 years ago

109 upvotes – 72 comments

SpaceX successfully lands its Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg for the first time

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/7/17947518/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-vandenberg-california-landing-watch-live

7 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

Log driven programming (2013)

http://antirez.com/news/51

7 years ago

106 upvotes – 64 comments

Rethinking our human origins in Africa

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/july/the-way-we-think-about-the-first-modern-humans-in-africa.html

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 31 comments

World has 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

East German coffee crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis

7 years ago

91 upvotes – 16 comments

Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2018/10/reified-generics-search-for-cure.html

7 years ago

86 upvotes – 43 comments

Climate report: Scientists politely urge 'act now, idiots'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309

7 years ago

83 upvotes – 48 comments

Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/?single_page=true

7 years ago

82 upvotes – 69 comments

Real-Time ASCII art rendering using a single decision tree

https://art.pixlab.io/

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 15 comments

Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-apple/apple-tells-congress-it-found-no-signs-of-hacking-attack-idUSKCN1MH0YQ

7 years ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments
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