top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-09

“Just walk out” technology by Amazon

https://justwalkout.com/

6 years ago

Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51810673

6 years ago

Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

https://www.axios.com/stocks-plunge-oil-coronavirus-a0c07880-f299-4829-87b0-81f5c5e93661.html

6 years ago

The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2020/03/08/the-unexpected-google-wide-domain-check-bypass/

6 years ago

S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/rout-in-u-s-stock-futures-would-trigger-trading-curbs-at-5

6 years ago

The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-opt-out-illusion/

6 years ago

How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript

http://frankforce.com/?p=7427

6 years ago

Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software

https://www.gresearch.co.uk/article/defunctionalisation/

6 years ago

Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html

6 years ago

Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower

6 years ago

The Warby Parker clones are imploding

https://marker.medium.com/why-all-the-warby-parker-clones-are-now-imploding-44bfcc70a00c

6 years ago

Please re-add original author to docs and license

https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703

6 years ago

★ 4.6k Python GPL-2.0

HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space

https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/

6 years ago

How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app

https://www.neilwithdata.com/how-i-built-bbsmart

6 years ago

TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/TornadoVM-QCon-London/

6 years ago

Open-sourcing Riskquant, a library for quantifying risk

https://netflixtechblog.com/open-sourcing-riskquant-a-library-for-quantifying-risk-6720cc1e4968

6 years ago

The Robber Bank: Can America Ever Rid Itself of Wells Fargo?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/wells-fargo-fines-penalties-never-stop.html

6 years ago

OpenJSCAD

https://openjscad.org/

6 years ago

Sequoia gives away $21M investment in Finix as it walks away from deal

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/sequoia-is-giving-away-21-million-to-a-payments-startup-it-funded-as-it-walks-away-from-deal/

6 years ago

Why Walking Meetings Work

https://forge.medium.com/walking-meetings-will-change-the-way-you-work-dce8b61f9e04

6 years ago

Max Von Sydow has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51803195

6 years ago

Launch HN: Savvy (YC W20) – Give employees tax-free cash for health insurance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527102

6 years ago

Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x

6 years ago

Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/australia-sues-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-fine-could-scale-to-529bn/

6 years ago

Next.js 9.3 – Static Site Support, 32 KB Smaller Runtime

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-3

6 years ago

The History of WD-40

https://jalopnik.com/the-history-of-wd-40-is-stranger-than-you-think-and-no-1841585147

6 years ago

OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

https://www.opensilver.net/

6 years ago

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

https://netflixtechblog.com/avif-for-next-generation-image-coding-b1d75675fe4

6 years ago

Ask HN: How are you preparing yourself for a recession?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527383

6 years ago

Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3518831/how-intels-changing-the-future-of-power-supplies-with-its-atx12vo-spec.html

6 years ago

Show HN: Sales for Founders

https://salesforfounders.com

6 years ago

Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 flu pandemic

https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582

6 years ago

Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/nyregion/cia-wikileaks-joshua-schulte-verdict.html

6 years ago

Stock Futures Were Halted Sunday Night After 5% Drop

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/stock-futures-were-halted-sunday-night.-heres-when-sp-500-circuit-breakers-would-kick-in

6 years ago

Pentagon awards contracts to design mobile nuclear reactor

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear-arsenal/2020/03/09/pentagon-to-award-mobile-nuclear-reactor-contracts-this-week/

6 years ago

Boeing proposal to avoid 737-MAX wiring shift does not win U.S. support

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max/boeing-proposal-to-avoid-max-wiring-shift-does-not-win-u-s-support-idUSKBN20W018

6 years ago

Lambda School threatens ex-employee for coming forward

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/9/21166640/lambda-school-former-employee-threat-coding-bootcamp-nondisclosure

6 years ago

The browsers are probably running the TLS show now

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowsersRunningTLSNow

6 years ago

Twitter, Elliott Strike Truce That Leaves CEO Dorsey in Place

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-elliott-strike-truce-that-leaves-ceo-dorsey-in-place-11583758773

6 years ago

The Knapsack Problem Is All Around Us

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-knapsack-problem-all-around-us-180974333/

6 years ago

Project Coldfeet

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

6 years ago

Generating MIDI melody from lyrics using LSTM-GANs

https://github.com/yy1lab/Lyrics-Conditioned-Neural-Melody-Generation

6 years ago

★ 430 Jupyter Notebook

Hunstable Electric Turbine can produce up to 3x the torque of other motors

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/08/hunstable-electric-turbine/

6 years ago

Ask HN: Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22526645

6 years ago

Surge of virus misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/technology/coronavirus-misinformation-social-media.html

6 years ago

Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample

https://colekillian.com/post/methylation-age-prediction/

6 years ago

Memcached 1.6

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes160

6 years ago

★ 14.1k C BSD-3-Clause

Progress on /e/, the de-Googled Android fork

https://itsfoss.com/gael-duval-interview/

6 years ago

Google confirms microformats are still a supported metadata format for content

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/03/02/google-microformats-support/

6 years ago

Stalin’s Danish Mystery

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/stalin’s-danish-mystery

6 years ago

Vstr: C string library designed to work optimally with vector I/O

http://www.and.org/vstr/

6 years ago

CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak (2018)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/

6 years ago

Show HN: Execute any comment from issues and pull requests on GitHub

https://github.com/nwtgck/actions-comment-run

6 years ago

★ 443 TypeScript MIT

Equality Is Hard

https://www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2020-03-09-equality-is-hard.html

6 years ago

An ultra-simplified example of a modern compiler written in JavaScript

https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler

6 years ago

★ 28.4k JavaScript CC-BY-4.0

Antarctic Snow Cruiser

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

6 years ago

To develop a coronavirus vaccine, synthetic biologists try to outdo nature

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-scientists-play-legos-with-proteins-to-build-next-gen-vaccine/

6 years ago

Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-09/italy-s-coronavirus-lockdown-tests-the-limits-of-democracy

6 years ago

Security advisory: Insufficient data validation in yubikey-val

https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2020-01/

6 years ago

Hacking an Audi: performing a man-in-the-middle attack on FlexRay

https://medium.com/@comma_ai/hacking-an-audi-performing-a-man-in-the-middle-attack-on-flexray-2710b1d29f3f

6 years ago