top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-12

Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520.41.0.pdf

6 years ago

731 upvotes – 322 comments

Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/

6 years ago

582 upvotes – 248 comments

Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22556156

6 years ago

465 upvotes – 371 comments

ACLU sues Homeland Security over airport face recognition program secrecy

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/12/homeland-security-airport-face-recognition/

6 years ago

431 upvotes – 44 comments

Rust 1.42

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/03/12/Rust-1.42.html

6 years ago

406 upvotes – 181 comments

Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-response-specialre/italy-and-south-korea-virus-outbreaks-reveal-disparity-in-deaths-and-tactics-idUSKBN20Z27P

6 years ago

389 upvotes – 395 comments

Why soap works so well on most viruses

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236549305189597189.html

6 years ago

378 upvotes – 198 comments

S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/asia-stocks-set-for-losses-dow-enters-bear-market-markets-wrap

6 years ago

340 upvotes – 522 comments

Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat

https://ma.ttias.be/government-act-corona-covid-19/

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 421 comments

How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200306-the-surprising-truth-about-finding-your-passion-at-work

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 126 comments

Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

https://nixintel.info/osint/signs-youre-following-a-fake-twitter-account/

6 years ago

277 upvotes – 149 comments

Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)

https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 102 comments

Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app

https://www.dw.com/en/court-outlaws-german-weather-services-free-weather-app/a-52735502

6 years ago

267 upvotes – 199 comments

Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/fed-to-pump-more-than-500-billion-into-short-term-bank-funding-expand-types-of-security-purchases.html

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 349 comments

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/03/12/the-real-reason-behind-bitcoin-ethereum-ripples-xrp-and-litecoins-50-billion-crash/

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 241 comments

P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)

https://www.darpa.mil/program/pandemic-prevention-platform

6 years ago

234 upvotes – 59 comments

AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to cloud report

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-azure-gcp-respond-to-the-2020-cloud-report/

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 34 comments

New businesses are choosing cities with good public transportation: study

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/07/startup-cities-public-transportation-new-business-development/594286

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 93 comments

IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3550760-ibm-sues-airbnb-for-patent-infringement

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 234 comments

Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold

https://codepen.io/ivorjetski/pen/xxGYWQG

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 39 comments

Cyberpunk: Then and Now

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-4

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 58 comments

I Don't Use Classes

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2020/03/12/why-i-dont-use-classes/#.Xmom-cfXe3U.hackernews

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 288 comments

John Titor

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

6 years ago

206 upvotes – 170 comments

Human Interface: Backpack harness innovation

https://www.carryology.com/liking/industry/human-interface-a-guide-to-backpack-harness-innovation/

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 61 comments

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 60 comments

Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics

http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/how-to-make-sense-of-quantum-physics

6 years ago

191 upvotes – 246 comments

Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/airbnb-s-loss-nearly-doubles-in-fourth-quarter-before-virus-hit

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 220 comments

Protect Our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill

https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 9 comments

Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All

https://www.newsweek.com/pelosi-says-house-pass-coronavirus-package-free-testing-all-1491887

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 237 comments

Soviet radar hidden in Chernobyl’s shadow [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/secret-worlds

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 67 comments

US admits 'failing' on testing, says Fauci

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51860529

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 82 comments

K Language (2011)

http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/k.html

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 125 comments

'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/unfixable_intel_csme_flaw/

6 years ago

171 upvotes – 62 comments

NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/ncaa-cancels-remaining-winter-and-spring-championships

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets

https://messari.io/article/makerdao-gets-stress-tested-as-eth-price-plummets

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 88 comments

SeL4 Design Principles

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/sel4-design-principles/

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 18 comments

Cloud AI Platform Pipelines

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-cloud-ai-platform-pipelines

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 53 comments

What it’s like to spend four and a half years in solitary confinement (2015)

https://fusion.tv/story/216609/shaka-senghor-solitary-confinement/

6 years ago

144 upvotes – 91 comments

Planet is 'way off track' in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/multi-agency-report-highlights-increasing-signs-and-impacts-of-climate-change

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 83 comments

Yes, I am still learning Rust

https://llogiq.github.io/2020/03/07/learning.html

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 110 comments

Chelsea Manning recovering after suicide attempt in jail, lawyers say

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/politics/chelsea-manning-suicide-attempt-virginia-jail/index.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 71 comments

A database of over 500 iPhones cops have tried to unlock

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ag5yj/unlock-apple-iphone-database-for-police

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 63 comments

Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for security cameras

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22559840

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 134 comments

GCC 9.3

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-03/msg00006.html

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 56 comments

Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham

http://brownpoliticalreview.org/2020/03/bpr-interviews-paul-graham/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 80 comments

The SOC2 Starting Seven

https://latacora.singles/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 65 comments

NHL suspending play immediately due to virus

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/28891430/sources-nhl-suspending-play-immediately-due-virus

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 38 comments

TSA officers who tested positive for coronavirus did pat-downs at SJC airport

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-infected-tsa-employees-at-mineta-san-jose-airport-patted-down-passengers-put-hands-on-travel-documents/

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 71 comments

Designing the perfect TypeScript schema validation library

https://vriad.com/blog/zod/

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 75 comments

Do not log

https://sobolevn.me/2020/03/do-not-log

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 84 comments

A Guide to Managing Remote Teams

https://knowyourteam.com/m/managing_remote_teams

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 26 comments

Juul Co-Founder James Monsees Is Stepping Down

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/juul-james-monsees-resigns

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 90 comments

The Analog Computer Museum

http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

Resources For Novel Coronavirus Covid-19

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1872608

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

Tails 4.4

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.4/index.en.html

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 7 comments

Trudeau in self-isolation as wife Sophie Grégoire tested for new coronavirus

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-in-self-isolation-as-wife-sophie-tested-for-new-coronavirus/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Qnice – An Elegant 16 Bit Processor

http://qnice.sourceforge.net/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 50 comments

Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 compared to SARS-CoV-1 [pdf]

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 43 comments

EOF is not a character

https://ruslanspivak.com/eofnotchar/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 132 comments

Redis official site not working because it cannot connect to a redis

https://redis.io/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 25 comments

Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51846468

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 67 comments

Lang5 – A Stack Based Array Language

http://lang5.sourceforge.net/tiki-index.php

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 20 comments

Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)

http://mattwarren.org/2016/12/20/Why-Exceptions-should-be-Exceptional/

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 74 comments
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