top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-13

Linux Kernel Teaching

https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/index.html

6 years ago

757 upvotes – 78 comments

Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

https://www.twilio.com/blog/open-source-video-apps-reactjs-ios-android

6 years ago

583 upvotes – 102 comments

Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

https://www.thurrott.com/dev/232268/microsoft-plots-the-end-of-visual-basic

6 years ago

489 upvotes – 280 comments

Slack account takeovers using HTTP Request Smuggling

https://hackerone.com/reports/737140

6 years ago

459 upvotes – 102 comments

Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html

6 years ago

454 upvotes – 141 comments

Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/europe/eu-right-to-repair-smartphones.html

6 years ago

421 upvotes – 264 comments

The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar

http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_Jaguar/index.html

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 69 comments

A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 287 comments

'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 105 comments

Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence

6 years ago

258 upvotes – 201 comments

WWDC to Be Moved Online

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03132020a

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 98 comments

Erlang LS – The Erlang Language Server

https://erlang-ls.github.io/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 21 comments

Launch HN: Ophelia (YC W20) – At-home recovery for opioid addiction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570133

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 69 comments

Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard

https://www.mysk.blog/2020/03/10/popular-iphone-and-ipad-apps-snooping-on-the-pasteboard/

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 104 comments

This PIN can be easily guessed

https://this-pin-can-be-easily-guessed.github.io/

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 84 comments

Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 229 comments

Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550/

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 165 comments

Comcast and T-Mobile upgrade everyone to unlimited data for next 60 days

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/comcast-suspends-data-cap-for-60-days-opens-wi-fi-hotspots-to-everyone/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 71 comments

NetHack 3.6.6

https://www.nethack.org/v366/release.html

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 89 comments

Glitch employees vote to form union, joining CWA

https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/tech-workers-app-developer-glitch-vote-form-union-and-join-cwa-organizing-initiative

6 years ago

180 upvotes – 166 comments

Hard work and specialising early is not always a recipe for success

https://thecorrespondent.com/337/why-hard-work-and-specialising-early-is-not-a-recipe-for-success/44615161074-4a7c370a

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 49 comments

The future of work requires a return to apprenticeships

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/apprenticeships-future-work-4ir-training-reskilling

6 years ago

178 upvotes – 78 comments

Show HN: Counters – GUI for those who don't do GUI

https://github.com/akalenuk/16counters

6 years ago

★ 122 Assembly Unlicense
177 upvotes – 44 comments

United Kingdom to introduce security labelling on connected devices

https://mender.io/blog/united-kingdom-to-introduce-security-labelling-on-connected-devices

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 91 comments

Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-focus-free-camera-flat-lens.html

6 years ago

164 upvotes – 83 comments

High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of Covid-19

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 96 comments

Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-could-force-isps-to-abandon-data-caps-forever/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 113 comments

U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for coronavirus

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-labor/u-s-labor-department-allows-unemployment-benefits-for-coronavirus-idUSW1N29L03G

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 87 comments

EdDSA, Ed25519, Ed25519-IETF, Ed25519ph, Ed25519ctx, HashEdDSA, PureEdDSA, WTF?

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/497/eddsa-ed25519-ed25519-ietf-ed25519ph-ed25519ctx-hasheddsa-pureeddsa-wtf/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 24 comments

AlphaGo – The Movie [video]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 33 comments

President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/03/13/student-loans-interest/#1ef158eb2ec8

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 94 comments

South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/13/815441078/south-koreas-drive-through-testing-for-coronavirus-is-fast-and-free

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 124 comments

GitHub's new notifications: a case of regressive design

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/13/GitHub-notifications.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 33 comments

Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

https://www.remoteroulette.com

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 61 comments

AI can detect coronavirus from CT scans in twenty seconds

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-can-detect-corona-virus-from-ct-scans-just-20-seconds-alan-brown/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

A QUIC look at HTTP/3

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/814522/ab3bfaa8f75c60ce/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

A Checklist for Evaluating New Technology

https://www.gustavwengel.dk/evaluating-new-technology

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 25 comments

A Vacancy Has Been Detected (2019)

https://kellysutton.com/2019/06/19/a-vacancy-has-been-detected.html

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 61 comments

Launch HN: Castodia (YC W20) – Populate Google Sheets from databases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22567557

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200309

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Facebook Contractors Must Work in Offices During Coronavirus Pandemic

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-facebook-contractors/

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 54 comments

The Uncensored Library

https://uncensoredlibrary.com/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 39 comments

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus

https://www.businessinsider.com/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-president-coronavirus-test-positive-2020-3

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 35 comments

Deepfake 'Silence of the Lambs' with Willem Dafoe and Gillian Anderson [video]

https://www.newsweek.com/silence-lambs-deepfake-willem-dafoe-gillian-anderson-ctrl-shift-face-videos-1491978

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Artificial kidneys and miniaturized dialysis could save millions of lives

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00671-8

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

Seattle lab uncovered coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators

https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-washingtons-coronavirus-outbreak-only-after-defying-federal-regulators

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Don’t watch TV coverage of Covid-19

https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 17 comments

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 1.0

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-cloud-on-kubernetes-ECK-is-now-generally-available

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive for coronavirus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trudeau-pos/canadian-pm-justin-trudeaus-wife-sophie-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN21008T

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple’s WWDC 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apples-wwdc-2020-kicks-off-in-june-with-an-all-new-online-format/

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 36 comments

Trump Declares National Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/coronavirus-news.html

6 years ago

76 upvotes – 159 comments

ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2005/

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 30 comments

Coronavirus: Some recovered patients may have reduced lung function

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3074988/coronavirus-some-recovered-patients-may-have

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: Ask recurring questions and get aggregated answers in your email

https://keyory.com

6 years ago

71 upvotes – 40 comments

Potential false-positive rate among the 'asymptomatic infected individuals'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 70 comments
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