top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-07

I have seen things

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/03/i-have-seen-things.html

6 years ago

Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burglarized-home-made-him-n1151761

6 years ago

Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

6 years ago

We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/

6 years ago

Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-airlines-run-empty-ghost-flights-planes-passengers-outbreak-covid-2020-3

6 years ago

The human genome is full of viruses

https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195

6 years ago

The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/

6 years ago

US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-army-scraps-1b-iron-dome-project-after-israel-refuses-to-provide-key-codes/

6 years ago

iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sign-in-with-apple

6 years ago

GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse

https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLite#demo-wall

6 years ago

★ 7.7k C++ Apache-2.0

Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]

https://transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/TI%20Preliminary%20Investigative%20Findings%20Boeing%20737%20MAX%20March%202020.pdf

6 years ago

Netlify raises $53M Series C as microservices approach to web development grows

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/04/netfily-nabs-53m-series-c-as-micro-services-approach-to-web-development-grows/

6 years ago

Stanford cancels in-person classes for rest of the quarter

https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/

6 years ago

New AMD side channel attacks discovered, impacts Zen architecture

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/new-amd-side-channel-attacks-discovered-impacts-zen-architecture

6 years ago

IRC and Emacs all the things

https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-11-01_irc_and_emacs_all_the_things.html

6 years ago

eBay bans sales of face masks and hand sanitizers to combat price gouging

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/ebay-bans-sales-of-all-face-masks-and-hand-sanitizers.html

6 years ago

Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00585

6 years ago

Software optimization resources for C++, assembly, Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS

https://www.agner.org/optimize/

6 years ago

Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison

https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/03/managed-kubernetes-comparison/

6 years ago

Show HN: Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for terminals

https://github.com/akinomyoga/cxxmatrix

6 years ago

★ 731 C++ MIT

With no prospects for profits, big pharma neglects new infectious diseases

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/covid-19_with-no-prospects-for-profits--big-pharma-turns-back-on-new-infectious-diseases/45598436

6 years ago

Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512265

6 years ago

The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3531171

6 years ago

Considering Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnT-LUQgc7s

6 years ago

Show HN: Karaoke for any song in any language

https://github.com/youkaclub/youka-desktop

6 years ago

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Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6.html

6 years ago

Mathematical marketing: a piece of calculus to change the way you advertise

https://mackgrenfell.com/blog/mathematical-marketing-one-piece-of-calculus-that-can-change-the-way-you-advertise

6 years ago

True product-market fit is a minimum viable company

https://medium.com/@amk/true-product-market-fit-is-a-minimum-viable-company-56adeb3e49cd

6 years ago

SpiderKeeper: Admin UI for scrapy/open source scrapinghub

https://github.com/DormyMo/SpiderKeeper

6 years ago

★ 2.7k Python

Launch HN: Orbiter (YC W20) – Autonomous data monitoring for non-engineers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512972

6 years ago

The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers

https://www.swyx.io/writing/coronavirus-recession/

6 years ago

30-year U.S. bond yields less than S&P dividend rate

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/bond-markets-shred-history-books-in-grip-of-furious-fear-trade

6 years ago

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

http://blissbat.net/balzac.html

6 years ago

A man launched a new ISP from his garage (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52PY_cwIsA

6 years ago

How Pandemics Change History

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-pandemics-change-history

6 years ago

Psychedelic therapy has a sexual abuse problem

https://qz.com/1809184/psychedelic-therapy-has-a-sexual-abuse-problem-3/

6 years ago

Session: An open-source private messenger that doesn’t need your phone number

https://itsfoss.com/session-messenger/

6 years ago

REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017)

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/6/5/repl-debugging-no-stacktrace-required

6 years ago

Coronavirus: A draft decree to 'quarantine 10 million people' in Lombardy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238

6 years ago

Stable perovskite-silicon printable solar cells with 25% efficiency

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6482/1097

6 years ago

Using Pytesseract to Convert Images into a HTML Site

https://armaizadenwala.com/blog/pytesseract-images-to-html/

6 years ago

How Does Lazy Evaluation Work in Haskell? (2014)

https://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/lazy-eval-intro.html

6 years ago

The Infinite Scroll

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/the-infinite-scroll.php

6 years ago

Europe’s old money mingles with tech startups

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-old-money-mingles-with-tech-startups-11583511875

6 years ago

Ask HN: Why was system admin re-branded as devops?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508968

6 years ago

Show HN: Mini social network that I made as my first MERN stack project

https://github.com/misa-j/social-network

6 years ago

★ 640 JavaScript MIT

Take a Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD’s Cache Way Predictors [pdf]

https://mlq.me/download/takeaway.pdf

6 years ago

Europe sees warmest winter since records began

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/06/europe-sees-warmest-winter-since-records-began

6 years ago

On the Benefits of Anthropomorphizing

https://lithub.com/deb-olin-unferth-didnt-expect-to-be-writing-from-the-point-of-view-of-a-chicken/

6 years ago

Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype

https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/pdp11/

6 years ago