top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-26

Tailwind UI

https://tailwindui.com/

6 years ago

Hard Startups

https://blog.samaltman.com/hard-startups

6 years ago

Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/product/mapping/mapping-coronavirus-responsibly/

6 years ago

Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

https://www.axios.com/olympic-official-tokyo-cancellation-coronavirus-contained-4ca69a5a-b573-4ec5-8714-959d04ae8592.html

6 years ago

DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/02/doj-plans-strike-against-encryption-while-techlash-iron-hot

6 years ago

Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-26/reddit-s-profane-greedy-traders-are-shaking-up-the-stock-market

6 years ago

YC’s new guide to raising a Series A

https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-series-a-guide/

6 years ago

Cursed Adapters

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1224206741602062336

6 years ago

Assange Hearing Day 2

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/

6 years ago

NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

https://neutralino.js.org

6 years ago

Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech

https://evanm.website/2020/02/five-years-in-energy/

6 years ago

The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)

https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost-every-country/

6 years ago

Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/googles-fear-of-microsoft-edge-is-revealing-its-bad-side

6 years ago

Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425593

6 years ago

Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51630630

6 years ago

CouchDB 3.0

https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/3-0/

6 years ago

Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/

6 years ago

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170728-monopoly-was-invented-to-demonstrate-the-evils-of-capitalism

6 years ago

Toxic sofas are a secret scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/26/toxic-sofa-eu-red-tape-flame-retardants

6 years ago

New Chip Brings Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Connectivity to IoT Devices

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/new-chip-brings-ultra-low-power-wi-fi-connectivity-to-iot-devices

6 years ago

‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially

https://marker.medium.com/the-untold-history-of-facebooks-most-controversial-growth-tool-2ea3bfeaaa66

6 years ago

Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity

https://www.bluelabellabs.com/blog/dont-confuse-a-bugs-priority-with-its-severity/

6 years ago

GitLab Handbook

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

6 years ago

GOG asks you to please not abuse its expansive new 30-day refund policy

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/gog-asks-you-to-please-not-abuse-its-expansive-new-30-day-refund-policy/

6 years ago

Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic

https://www.eset.com/int/kr00k/

6 years ago

The Physics of Fried Rice

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/georgia-tech-physicists-unlock-the-secret-to-perfect-wok-tossed-fried-rice/

6 years ago

Show HN: Opensource.builders, open-source alternatives to commercial software

https://opensource.builders

6 years ago

Isomorphic-git v1.0

https://isomorphic-git.org/blog/2020/02/25/version-1-0-0

6 years ago

You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201007#18

6 years ago

Why I Like Math [pdf]

http://www.southparkwillie.com/SPinfo/mathessayfinal1.pdf

6 years ago

IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history

https://www.coindesk.com/iota-being-shut-off-is-the-latest-chapter-in-an-absurdist-history

6 years ago

Why operators are useful (2019)

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/52DLME5DKNZYFEETCTRENRNKWJ2B4DD5/

6 years ago

Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/mmap-vs-zarr-hdf5/

6 years ago

A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies

https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/false-economy

6 years ago

Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/startups-bet-that-lonely-freelancers-crave-company

6 years ago

Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/exclusive-mass-layoffs-reported-after-starsky-robotics-fails-to-find-buyer-investors

6 years ago

Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13518

6 years ago

Tech can't remember what to do in a down market

https://www.axios.com/tech-cant-remember-what-to-do-in-a-down-market-ca1e8750-f9f9-4461-97c4-710b9de0e9cc.html

6 years ago

CVE-2020-0688: Remote Code Execution on Microsoft Exchange Server

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/2/24/cve-2020-0688-remote-code-execution-on-microsoft-exchange-server-through-fixed-cryptographic-keys

6 years ago

Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0

6 years ago

Meaningful Availability

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/02/26/meaningful-availability/

6 years ago

Reddit Posters Pick the Stocks Now

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-26/reddit-posters-pick-the-stocks-now

6 years ago

StorePreviewer – See what your app will look like on the App Store

https://www.storepreviewer.com/

6 years ago

“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#no-two-thirds-of-adults-in-developed-nations-do-not-fail-to-obtain-the-recommended-amount-of-sleep

6 years ago

The wear patterns of jeans aren’t good forensic evidence

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/the-wear-patterns-of-your-jeans-arent-good-forensic-evidence/

6 years ago

Post-intensive care syndrome results from continuous inflammation

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/2020/02/post-intensive-care-syndrome-results-from-continuous-inflammation

6 years ago

Expertise Is 'Just' Pattern Matching

https://commoncog.com/blog/expertise-is-just-pattern-matching/

6 years ago