top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-15

Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

https://www.staatsoperlive.com/

6 years ago

689 upvotes – 73 comments

Employee Scheduling

https://developers.google.com/optimization/scheduling/employee_scheduling

6 years ago

641 upvotes – 134 comments

Activists create a 12.5M block library in Minecraft to bypass censorship

https://www.pulse.com.gh/bi/tech/activists-created-a-125-million-block-digital-library-in-minecraft-to-bypass/bn4gpcc

6 years ago

462 upvotes – 104 comments

Funding for Covid-19 Projects

https://blog.samaltman.com/funding-for-covid-19-projects

6 years ago

394 upvotes – 215 comments

DefaultApp

https://tyler.io/default-app-for-mac-ios/

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 126 comments

U.S. Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

https://apnews.com/8089a3d0ec8f9fde971bddd7b3aa2ba1

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 277 comments

CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-15/cdc-says-gatherings-over-50-people-should-be-delayed-eight-weeks

6 years ago

311 upvotes – 375 comments

Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-usa/germany-tries-to-stop-u-s-from-luring-away-firm-seeking-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN2120IV

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 286 comments

Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-slashes-interest-rates-zero-part-wide-ranging-emergency-intervention/

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 300 comments

Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

https://lesspass.com/

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 210 comments

Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering

https://guyinatuxedo.github.io/

6 years ago

246 upvotes – 14 comments

Containment gets harder every day we delay

https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/dont-be-italy

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 227 comments

Tell the Senate: Do Not Shut Down Debate on Mass Surveillance

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-do-not-shut-down-debate-on-mass-surveillance

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 7 comments

Alphabet, Walmart join U.S. effort to speed up coronavirus testing

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-google/google-walmart-join-u-s-effort-to-speed-up-coronavirus-testing-idUSKBN21036R

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 205 comments

London’s trees are saving the city billions

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2020/03/london-trees-economic-benefits-urban-cooling-carbon/607525/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 78 comments

Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidemiologist-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 260 comments

A chemical reaction in ancient Roman concrete makes it stronger over time (2017)

https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-ancient-roman-concrete-stronger-than-modern.htm

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 64 comments

NY hospitals pitch tents, nix surgeries to prepare for influx

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-14/n-y-hospitals-pitch-tents-nix-surgeries-to-prepare-for-influx

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 140 comments

USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine would be exclusive to USA

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-tried-to-pay-germans-scientists-for-coronavirus-cure-2020-3

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 119 comments

Zero Trust Networks

https://crawshaw.io/blog/zero-trust

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 55 comments

The story of Henry Ford's $5 a day wages: not what you think (2012)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/#674d6332766d

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 109 comments

The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CSITheCaseOfTheMissingWAVAudioFilesOnTheFAT32SDCard.aspx

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 60 comments

35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered

https://dofo.com/symbolics.com

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 37 comments

People who haven't bought clothes for a decade

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/12/i-wear-my-grandads-old-boxers-meet-the-people-who-havent-bought-clothes-for-a-decade

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 160 comments

Evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism (2013)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062275

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 86 comments

British Society for Immunology open letter to Government on SARS-CoV-2 response

https://www.immunology.org/news/bsi-open-letter-government-sars-cov-2-outbreak-response

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 151 comments

MathJax Turns 3.0

http://bit-player.org/2020/mathjax-turns-3-0

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 34 comments

Ask HN: What makes an online course amazing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580520

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 49 comments

WebAssembly brings extensibility to network proxies

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/webassembly-brings-extensibility-to.html

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 19 comments

Our Experience with Stripe Atlas

https://formcake.com/blog/our-experience-with-stripe-atlas

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 21 comments

David Attenborough calls for ban on deep sea mining

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/david-attenborough-calls-for-ban-on-devastating-deep-sea-mining

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 14 comments

Are patients with hypertension and diabetes at increased risk for COVID-19?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8/fulltext#coronavirus-linkback-header

6 years ago

130 upvotes – 89 comments

Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51892402

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 211 comments

Best Python Reference Ever

https://github.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet

6 years ago

★ 38.3k Python
120 upvotes – 19 comments

Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1991)

http://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 21 comments

Genesis P-Orridge has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51893184

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click

https://tldrthis.com/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 59 comments

Vitamin D deficiency worsens Respiratory Tract Infections: Meta-analysis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747229/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 38 comments

InboxSDK – Build apps inside Gmail

https://www.inboxsdk.com/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 49 comments

Layoffs Are Coming

https://jacobian.org/2020/mar/13/layoffs-are-coming/

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 77 comments

Lens: Desktop application for managing Kubernetes clusters

https://github.com/kontena/lens

6 years ago

★ 23.1k MIT
96 upvotes – 38 comments

Cleaning the Ship's Cargo Hold (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4cqxLM-N4

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

Campaign to 'thank' Xi Jinping flatly rejected by Wuhan citizens

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/Campaign-to-thank-Xi-Jinping-flatly-rejected-by-Wuhan-citizens

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Asm-dom, a minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA

https://mbasso.github.io/asm-dom/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 47 comments

Project Open Air

https://www.projectopenair.org/

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 28 comments

Coronavirus Work from Home Model

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17YyCmjb2Z2QwMiRRwAb7W0vQoEAiL9Co0ARsl03dSlw/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 43 comments

“Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (2015)

http://www.bifurcatedneedle.com/new-blog/2015/7/22/out-of-an-abundance-of-caution-an-overused-phrase

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 69 comments
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