1613
699
Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/
8 years ago
953
258
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
911
1088
Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164189
907
143
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/
517
86
Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died
https://medium.com/@webwright/today-is-my-wifes-first-birthday-since-she-died-7369944c43ec
418
339
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
413
173
Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform
https://alan-platform.com/pages/tuts/introducing.html
352
174
How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/
322
185
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
304
358
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/
287
42
How newlines affect Linux kernel performance
https://nadav.amit.zone/blog/linux-inline
277
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
276
124
Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good
https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854094848?s=21
274
132
Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2018/10/hubble-space-te.html
268
21
Bpftrace for Linux 2018
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux-2018.html
267
24
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-quantum-verification-problem-20181008/
251
104
Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/05/recipes/
249
98
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
246
32
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/
226
167
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
217
219
Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13401/intel-9th-gen-cpus-9900k-9700k-9600k
216
51
Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio
https://github.com/jlaine/aiortc/
★ 145 Python BSD-3-Clause– 8 years ago
202
96
The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/cutler
181
45
How WeChat faded into the silence in India
https://factordaily.com/how-wechat-faded-into-the-silence-in-india/
162
225
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/
150
20
Nvtop: Nvidia GPU htop-like monitoring tool
https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop
★ 10.5k C – 8 years ago
145
100
Apple Bloomberg Congressional Letter
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4995755-Apple-Bloomberg-Congressional-Letter.html
138
19
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/
122
17
A Comparison of Functional Data Structures on the JVM
https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/doc/comparison.md
★ 1k Java MIT– 8 years ago
119
12
Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/programming-interaction/
117
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
115
79
Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/viral-manspreading-video-is-staged-kremlin-propaganda/
114
11
Show HN: Firebase2graphql – Migrate from Firebase to GraphQL on Postgres
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/tree/master/community/tools/firebase2graphql
★ 31.9k TypeScript Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
71
Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling
https://portal.facebook.com/
109
72
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
108
14
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
106
64
Log driven programming (2013)
http://antirez.com/news/51
91
31
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
23
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
16
East German coffee crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis
43
Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2018/10/reified-generics-search-for-cure.html
83
48
Climate report: Scientists politely urge 'act now, idiots'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45775309
82
69
Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/?single_page=true
81
15
Real-Time ASCII art rendering using a single decision tree
https://art.pixlab.io/
70
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
