top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-03

SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/

6 years ago

1216 upvotes – 343 comments

What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction

6 years ago

733 upvotes – 342 comments

Simple Systems Have Less Downtime

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/?r=0

6 years ago

685 upvotes – 263 comments

Introduction to D3

https://observablehq.com/@mitvis/introduction-to-d3

6 years ago

599 upvotes – 92 comments

Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

https://qz.com/1707479/reddit-has-become-a-guide-to-personal-finance/

6 years ago

548 upvotes – 405 comments

What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?

https://altairspace.com/2020/03/02/mysterious-light-sources/

6 years ago

519 upvotes – 142 comments

Revoking certain certificates on March 4

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 155 comments

Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-03/fed-cuts-rates-half-point-in-emergency-move-amid-spreading-virus

6 years ago

364 upvotes – 481 comments

Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mastercard-is-pioneering-new-payment-technology-that-identifies-commuters-by-the-way-they-walk-2020-02-14

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 157 comments

The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago

6 years ago

330 upvotes – 86 comments

Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-75-Wayland-Great-Shape

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 173 comments

Postgres Explain Visualizer

https://github.com/dalibo/pev2

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 33 comments

Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/03/atrium-shuts-down/

6 years ago

298 upvotes – 165 comments

Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473209

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 134 comments

FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/52fcc2c3146b5875a1ec0fb7460dd382ab0e5b3b

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 176 comments

Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

https://meet.jit.si/

6 years ago

280 upvotes – 95 comments

Leaked doc shows how big companies buy credit card data on millions of Americans

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jged4x/envestnet-yodlee-credit-card-bank-data-not-anonymous

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 37 comments

The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 171 comments

Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/03/03/moznet-irc-is-dead-long-live-mozilla-matrix

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 164 comments

New Features in Java 14

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/java-14-arrives-with-a-host-of-new-features

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 183 comments

Moviefone, Worth 1% of Its Former Value, Is Being Run by One Employee

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/moviefone-bankruptcy-value-1203505129/

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 96 comments

Anxiety as an algorithm

https://www.adamjuliangoldstein.com/blog/anxiety-algorithm/

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 48 comments

Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/covid-19

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 123 comments

Jack Welch Inflicted Great Damage on Corporate America

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-02/ge-s-jack-welch-inflicted-great-damage-on-corporate-america

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 123 comments

Protein discovered inside a meteorite

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-protein-meteorite.html

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 60 comments

We all wear tinfoil hats now

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/we-all-wear-tinfoil-hats-now

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

https://inventhub.io

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 55 comments

How did software get so reliable without proof?

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2020/03/02/how-did-software-get-so-reliable-without-proof/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 130 comments

Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU

https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-altra-80-arm-cores-for-cloud/

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 67 comments

Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/03/calls-to-cancel-sxsw-intensify-as-facebook-twitter-pull-out-30k-sign-petition.html

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 181 comments

Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design

https://fold.it/portal/node/2008926

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 78 comments

Recovering telemetry data from Venera-13 and 14

https://twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/1234658195668267010

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 43 comments

For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/parasite-seoul-south-korea.html

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 146 comments

Swiss government files criminal complaint over Crypto AG scandal involving CIA

https://intelnews.org/2020/03/03/01-2730/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 57 comments

Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 101 comments

How Do We Know That Epic Poems Were Recited from Memory?

https://daily.jstor.org/how-do-we-know-that-epic-poems-were-recited-from-memory/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 61 comments

Introduction to SerenityOS Programming

https://awesomekling.github.io/Introduction-to-SerenityOS-GUI-programming/

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

United States National Radio Quiet Zone

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

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 31 comments

Coronavirus: an email to my family

https://www.julianagrant.com/blog/2020/2/29/coronavirus

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 78 comments

Babies are pre-wired to perceive the world

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/born-ready-babies-are-prewired-to-perceive-the-world/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 55 comments

Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/03/maersk_redundancies_maidenhead_notpetya_rescuers/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 65 comments

My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-thoughts-coronavirus-ray-dalio

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 113 comments

Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22476985

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: STEM toy for a 3 years old?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22473578

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter

https://mailbrew.com/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 39 comments

Robinhood Is Down Again?

https://status.robinhood.com/incidents/h6xsxvsxg7rm

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 110 comments

The Junk Mail Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century (2019)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/12/the-junk-mail-men-selling-your-data-for-a-century/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 14 comments

Coronavirus Lockdown in Wuhan Is a 'Living Hell'

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/03/809965742/personal-essay-from-wuhan-living-in-hell

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is

https://www.worth.com/how-mass-hysteria-is-making-coronavirus-worse-than-it-actually-is/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 121 comments

Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31678-1

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 101 comments

Personal CO2 Removal as a Service

https://climeworks.shop/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 91 comments

Google cancels physical I/O 2020 conference

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163553/google-io-2020-cancelled-coronavirus-tech-developer-conference

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 37 comments

Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Singapore Covid-19 Cases DashBoard

https://www.wuhanvirus.sg/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 51 comments

Stylus: Broken links to install Chrome extension

https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/issues/857#issuecomment-592569691

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 19 comments
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