top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-10

MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

https://web.mit.edu/covid19/update-from-president-l-rafael-reif-to-the-mit-community/

6 years ago

1027 upvotes – 586 comments

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/TheOptimist/Articles/coronavirus-mark-suzman-therapeutics

6 years ago

795 upvotes – 148 comments

Google recommends all North America employees work from home

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-google-north-america-employees-work-from-home-2020-3

6 years ago

620 upvotes – 522 comments

We're making an open-source $30 GPS/mesh radio, would like advice

https://www.meshtastic.org/

6 years ago

620 upvotes – 166 comments

Firefox 74

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

540 upvotes – 260 comments

Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/

6 years ago

510 upvotes – 358 comments

New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/new-flaw-in-intel-chips-lets-attackers-slip-their-own-data-into-secure-enclave/

6 years ago

492 upvotes – 199 comments

Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack

https://redwoodjs.com/

6 years ago

431 upvotes – 167 comments

Tips for the depressed

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/tips-for-the-depressed/

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 214 comments

Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/business/tesla-europe-success.html

6 years ago

404 upvotes – 477 comments

Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond

https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-03-9-b/

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 420 comments

Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project

https://github.com/feltcoop/why-svelte

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 133 comments

MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

https://msgpack.org/

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 379 comments

Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

6 years ago

★ 9.5k Rust
280 upvotes – 113 comments

Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534520

6 years ago

274 upvotes – 247 comments

AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch

https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/automl_zero

6 years ago

★ 37.8k Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
260 upvotes – 46 comments

Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/lets-colonize-titan/

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 386 comments

Ask HN: Should Techcrunch be banned on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539255

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 18 comments

Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/robinhood-maxed-out-credit-line-last-month-amid-market-tumult

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 114 comments

Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support research and ‘good’ bots

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/twitter-rewrites-developer-policy-to-better-support-academic-research-and-use-of-good-bots/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 100 comments

Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Crescendo – macOS App to view real time event data

https://segphault.io/posts/2020/03/crescendo/

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 28 comments

Amazon, Microsoft join Italy’s initiative to offer free Wi-Fi, eBooks

http://alugy.com/europe/amazon-microsoft-joins-italys-initiative-to-offer-free-wi-fi-ebooks-unlimited-mobile-data/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 40 comments

Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-mortgages/payments-on-mortgages-to-be-suspended-across-italy-after-coronavirus-outbreak-idINR1N2A900G

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 100 comments

Tesla produces its millionth car

https://electrek.co/2020/03/09/tesla-produces-1000000th-electric-car/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 73 comments

How coronavirus spread from patient zero in Seattle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-09/how-coronavirus-spread-from-patient-zero-in-seattle

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 209 comments

Options for giving math talks and lectures online

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/options-for-giving-math-talks-and-lectures-online/

6 years ago

143 upvotes – 22 comments

What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/09/bzzz/

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 135 comments

A Peek Into Graviton2

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/a-peek-into-the-physics-of-graivton2-amazons-neoverse-n1-server-chip-first-impressions

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 65 comments

React Table v7 – Hooks for building fast and extendable data grids in React

https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-table/releases/tag/v7.0.0

6 years ago

★ 27.9k TypeScript MIT
136 upvotes – 40 comments

UK Health Minister tests positive for coronavirus

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51827356

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 84 comments

Ask patio11 anything

https://capiche.com/ama/patrick-mckenzie-stripe

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 44 comments

Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coronavirus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/engineer-who-attended-cybersecurity-event-contracts-coronavirus

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 84 comments

Sucralose with carbohydrates may blunt the body’s ability to metabolize sugar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/10/common-artificial-sweetener-might-be-making-you-fatter-sicker-new-study-says/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 95 comments

Sanoid – Replication and Backups with ZFS

https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/

6 years ago

★ 3.7k Perl GPL-3.0
125 upvotes – 54 comments

TRRespass: Rowhammer against DDR4

https://www.vusec.net/projects/trrespass/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

Zoom In: Speculative claims about neural circuits

https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 4 comments

Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture

https://netflixtechblog.com/ready-for-changes-with-hexagonal-architecture-b315ec967749?gi=d802b8fc4fc0

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 62 comments

Dressing for the Surveillance Age

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 65 comments

To do better science, admit that you’re not objective

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00669-2

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 78 comments

Launch HN: Cotter (YC W20) – Secure One-Click Phone Number Login

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538578

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 67 comments

High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race

https://newatlas.com/energy/toomen-powercapacitors-kurt-energy-high-density-supercapacitors/

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 92 comments

Launch HN: Datree (YC W20) – Best practices and security policies on each commit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22536228

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 52 comments

WebGPU Shading Language

https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/wgsl.html

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 115 comments

How early American inventors funded their ventures

https://rootsofprogress.org/how-early-american-inventors-funded-their-ventures

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 19 comments

Legal considerations when gathering threat intellegence from illict sources [pdf]

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/1252341/download

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 18 comments

New York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/new-york-gov-cuomo-to-deploy-national-guard-to-new-rochelle-establishes-containment-center-to-stem-coronavirus.html

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 60 comments

Flatten the Coronavirus Curve

https://flowingdata.com/2020/03/09/flatten-the-coronavirus-curve/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 39 comments

APL a Day

https://www.sacrideo.us/tag/apl-a-day/

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 29 comments

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/let-s-leave-philosophers-to-puzzle-over-the-reality-of-numbers

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

2019-nCoV may contain a gain-of-function for efficient spreading

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220300528

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 66 comments

Fast function to parse strings into double (binary64) floating-point values

https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser

6 years ago

★ 669 C++ Apache-2.0
73 upvotes – 56 comments
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