top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-03-11

Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says

6 years ago

1243 upvotes – 1038 comments

Show HN: Fraidycat

https://fraidyc.at/

6 years ago

807 upvotes – 150 comments

How some good corporate engineering blogs are written

https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/

6 years ago

617 upvotes – 94 comments

Google Open Source Code Search

https://cs.opensource.google/

6 years ago

596 upvotes – 167 comments

Show HN: Visual SQL

https://chartio.com/blog/why-we-made-sql-visual-and-how-we-finally-did-it/

6 years ago

512 upvotes – 126 comments

Don't Touch Ya Face

https://www.donttouchyaface.com/

6 years ago

476 upvotes – 138 comments

AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation

https://github.com/taviso/avscript

6 years ago

★ 671 C GPL-3.0
473 upvotes – 191 comments

Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/upshot/alcoholics-anonymous-new-evidence.html

6 years ago

416 upvotes – 341 comments

San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/487047-san-francisco-bans-public-events-holding-more-than-1000-people

6 years ago

388 upvotes – 385 comments

E3 2020 Cancelled

https://www.e3expo.com/

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 112 comments

Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-supply-chains-china-46d82a0f-9f52-4229-840a-936822ddef41.html

6 years ago

319 upvotes – 261 comments

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago

https://news.agu.org/press-release/ancient-shell-shows-days-were-half-hour-shorter-70-million-years-ago/

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 131 comments

White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN20Y2LM

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 251 comments

Thinking Psycopg3

https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/03/06/thinking-psycopg3/

6 years ago

268 upvotes – 49 comments

Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]

http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2020/CMU-CS-20-101.pdf

6 years ago

251 upvotes – 59 comments

Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/windows-has-a-new-wormable-vulnerability-and-theres-no-patch-in-sight/

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 96 comments

Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200311/denmark-to-shut-all-schools-and-universities-to-fight-virus

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 158 comments

Fast-Growing Remote Startups

https://www.freedomiseverything.com/fastest-growing-remote/

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 64 comments

San Jose: Three TSA agents test positive for Covid-19

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/10/san-jose-three-tsa-agents-test-positive-for-covid-19/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 166 comments

Write a rapid prototype first (2007)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/advice-on-writing-papers/write-a-rapid-prototype-first/

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 17 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments