top 50% 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

Show HN: Fraidycat

https://fraidyc.at/

6 years ago

How some good corporate engineering blogs are written

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

6 years ago

Google Open Source Code Search

https://cs.opensource.google/

6 years ago

Show HN: Visual SQL

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

6 years ago

Don't Touch Ya Face

https://www.donttouchyaface.com/

6 years ago

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

https://github.com/taviso/avscript

6 years ago

★ 671 C GPL-3.0

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

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

E3 2020 Cancelled

https://www.e3expo.com/

6 years ago

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

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

White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

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

6 years ago

Thinking Psycopg3

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

6 years ago

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

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

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

Fast-Growing Remote Startups

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

6 years ago

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

Write a rapid prototype first (2007)

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

6 years ago

How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding

https://blog.garrytan.com/masterclass-with-algolia-how-to-capture-the-heart-of-20m-software-developers

6 years ago

Young and unafraid of the pandemic? Good for you. Now stop killing people

https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic-good-you-now-stop-killing-people-opinion-1491797

6 years ago

Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22549300

6 years ago

Open Source Time-of-Flight DIY Lidar

https://github.com/iliasam/OpenTOFLidar

6 years ago

★ 846 C MIT

Misconfigured Circuit Breakers

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/circuit-breaker-misconfigured

6 years ago

Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

https://kevingal.com/blog/mona-lisa-gol.html

6 years ago

Zero Trust Information

https://stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/

6 years ago

Lesser-known Pandas tricks (2019)

https://towardsdatascience.com/5-lesser-known-pandas-tricks-e8ab1dd21431

6 years ago

Leaked Emails: Norwegian Pressures Sales Team to Lie About Coronavirus

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/coronavirus-norwegian-cruise-line-leaked-emails-show-booking-strategy-11590056

6 years ago

Differential Equations with Transformers: Deep Learning for Symbolic Math

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/solving-differential-equations-with-transformers-21648d3a1695

6 years ago

A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/microsoft-botnets-malware.html

6 years ago

Kubuntu Linux 19.10 for a digital painting workstation

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article761/kubuntu-linux-19-10-for-a-digital-painting-workstation-reasons-and-install-guide

6 years ago

Show HN: Assembled – Scale great customer support

https://www.assembled.com

6 years ago

Italy to close all stores apart from food shops and pharmacies

https://www.thelocal.it/20200311/breaking-italy-to-close-all-stores-apart-from-food-shops-and-pharmacies

6 years ago

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

6 years ago

Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

6 years ago

★ 4.4k C GPL-2.0

Show HN: Slower News

https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews

6 years ago

★ 230 HTML

A Movement to Stop the Covid-19 Pandemic

https://staythefuckhome.com

6 years ago

The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/faq/

6 years ago

Amazon battles counterfeit masks, $400 hand sanitizer amid virus panic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-battles-counterfeit-masks-400-hand-sanitizer-amid-virus-panic-11583880384

6 years ago

$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/07/21/he-built-a-1-billion-business-where-all-700-employees-work-remotely/#caffbb02aa97

6 years ago

Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/10/all-the-startups-threatened-by-ios-14s-new-features/

6 years ago

Launch HN: DeepSource (YC W20) – Find and fix issues during code reviews

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547183

6 years ago

The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill

https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/the-cost-of-not-getting-tested-for-coronavirus-a-10k-bill.html

6 years ago

Coronavirus Declared Pandemic by World Health Organization

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-cases-top-1-000-11583917794

6 years ago

Riot police called after U of Dayton students take to streets following closure

https://twitter.com/i/events/1237627716196683777

6 years ago

Unicode 13.0

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/

6 years ago

YC W20 Online Demo Day moved up due to investor interest

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w20-online-demo-day-now-on-march-16/

6 years ago

StyleGAN2 Distillation for Feed-Forward Image Manipulation

https://github.com/EvgenyKashin/stylegan2-distillation

6 years ago

★ 1k Python

What would Dijkstra do? Proving the associativity of min

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/what-would-dijkstra-do-proving-the-associativity-of-min/

6 years ago

We oppose morals clauses in book contracts (2019)

https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/why-we-oppose-morals-clauses-in-book-contracts/

6 years ago

NBCUniversal Sold $500M Stake in Snapchat

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbcuniversal-quietly-sold-500-million-stake-snapchat-1283201

6 years ago

Angela Merkel estimates 60% to 70% of the German pop. will contract the virus

https://www.businessinsider.com/angela-merkel-estimates-coronavirus-will-hit-large-majority-german-population-2020-3

6 years ago

Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/mar/11/mans-experiments-with-explosives-were-lawful-court-rules

6 years ago

Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/

6 years ago