top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-14

Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

https://left.it/2020/03/13/covid_19-open-letter-from-italy-to-the-international-scientific-community/

6 years ago

1095 upvotes – 693 comments

The most surprising Unix programs

https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-March/020664.html

6 years ago

539 upvotes – 176 comments

Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573204

6 years ago

527 upvotes – 204 comments

Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577132

6 years ago

524 upvotes – 741 comments

Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

https://kosmi.io

6 years ago

494 upvotes – 93 comments

Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22576589

6 years ago

440 upvotes – 127 comments

Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a31451281/koenigsegg-gemera-engine-specs-analysis/

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 341 comments

FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-grants-roche-coronavirus-test-emergency-green-light-within-24-hours

6 years ago

348 upvotes – 139 comments

Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/sre-keeps-digging-to-prevent-problems

6 years ago

325 upvotes – 123 comments

Pandemic Ventilator Project

https://panvent.blogspot.com/

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 108 comments

Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City

https://grist.org/climate/coronavirus-has-caused-a-bicycling-boom-in-new-york-city/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 151 comments

Show HN: Simulation-based high school physics course notes

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/index.html

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 27 comments

Corona Simulator

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 79 comments

Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19

https://www.gamesradar.com/nvidias-calling-on-gaming-pc-owners-to-put-their-systems-to-work-fighting-covid-19/

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 138 comments

Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487535-chinese-billionaire-to-send-us-500000-coronavirus-test-kits-1-million-face

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 251 comments

Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575007

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 211 comments

A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/14/on-the-verge-a-quiet-roadside-revolution-is-boosting-wildflowers-aoe

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 47 comments

Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you need

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/13/partial-clone-for-massive-repositories/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 86 comments

$5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA

https://www.caloes.ca.gov/cal-oes-divisions/legal-affairs/price-gouging

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 428 comments

Working from home – things no one talks about

https://www.timo-zimmermann.de/2020/03/working-from-home-things-no-one-talks-about/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 190 comments

Iceland radically cut teenage drug use

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/iceland-knows-how-to-stop-teen-substance-abuse-but-the-rest-of-the-world-isn-t-listening

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 97 comments

Linux Kernel Development and Writing a Simple Kernel Module (2018)

https://devarea.com/linux-kernel-development-and-writing-a-simple-kernel-module/#.Xmpn5C2B3mE

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 8 comments

A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987958v1

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574497

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 190 comments

Wide-Band WebSDR – Shortwave Radio on the Internet

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

6 years ago

201 upvotes – 59 comments

Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 82 comments

The PCAP – single file with 50 different protocols

https://weberblog.net/the-ultimate-pcap/

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 33 comments

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

https://netflixtechblog.com/svt-av1-an-open-source-av1-encoder-and-decoder-ad295d9b5ca2

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 43 comments

Not all young people are ‘digital natives’

https://theconversation.com/not-all-young-people-are-digital-natives-inequality-hugely-limits-experiences-of-technology-133102

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 157 comments

Lisp Comes of Age (1980)

https://microship.com/lisp-comes-of-age/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 110 comments

An equation that takes Pythagoras to a new level

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-one-equation-10%C2%B2-11%C2%B2-12%C2%B2-13%C2%B2-14%C2%B2-takes-pythagoras-to-a-whole-new-level-ff588f1d13b6

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 22 comments

“Evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language”

https://web.facebook.com/careers/jobs/229713254864749

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 42 comments

Structural OCaml Editing in Emacs

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/introducing-gopcaml-mode-structural-ocaml-editing/5310

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 9 comments

OpenTable Restaurant Performance Data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRbPuAyJy74UmbF6kLXFGXDk2eX3N6zvRLzxPamG8FAA3E-SVqMOMSIht-eYEF_4qrNGOJuPbDjTsPD/pubhtml#

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 59 comments

New paint atomizer with over 95% coating efficiency

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/31587468.html

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 34 comments

An Introduction to Modern CMake

https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/human-stem-cell-strategy-rapidly-cures-diabetes-in-mice/

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 74 comments

A Godot reimplementation of SuperTux

https://github.com/Alzter/TuxBuilder

6 years ago

★ 214 GDScript GPL-3.0
119 upvotes – 25 comments

Czech Passive Radar Detecting B-2 at 150 miles (2015)

https://defence-blog.com/army/anti-stealth-radar-vera-ng-of-vietnam-in-action.html

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 119 comments

Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology

https://www.theoi.com/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 15 comments

Wiring and Cabling: How to Lace Cable Harnesses (1962)

http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 29 comments

How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-uses-druid-for-real-time-insights-to-ensure-a-high-quality-experience-19e1e8568d06

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize (2019)

http://news.mit.edu/2019/umbulizer-sloan-health-care-innovation-prize-0225

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 28 comments

Low-cost portable ventilator (2010)

http://news.mit.edu/2010/itw-ventilator-0715

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 18 comments

Show HN: Pisa – Full Text Search Engine Written in C++

https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa

6 years ago

★ 1k C++ Apache-2.0
96 upvotes – 16 comments

The next outbreak? we’re not ready (2015) [video]

https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 36 comments

Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/12/understanding-sars-cov-2-and-the-drugs-that-might-lessen-its-power

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

Bach's prelude in C major written in sed

https://github.com/laserbat/bach.sed

6 years ago

★ 11 sed MIT
88 upvotes – 14 comments

A new decade, a new tool

https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2020/01/06/new-decade.html

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 51 comments

China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblower not silenced

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/03/14/china-may-prevented-95-virus-cases-acted-silenced-whistleblowers-warning/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 12 comments
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