top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-16

NPM Is Joining GitHub

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/

6 years ago

1829 upvotes – 557 comments

Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-hire-100-000-warehouse-and-delivery-workers-amid-coronavirus-shutdowns-11584387833

6 years ago

530 upvotes – 318 comments

Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/ten-minute-coronavirus-test-could-be-game-changer-for-africa

6 years ago

446 upvotes – 183 comments

Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-norwegianair/norwegian-air-to-cancel-85-of-flights-and-lay-off-90-of-staff-idUSKBN2132F7

6 years ago

400 upvotes – 212 comments

Shelter in place for Bay Area counties

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Bay-Area-must-shelter-in-place-Only-15135014.php?t=ebc54dc680

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 527 comments

Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash

http://www.mortgagerateguru.com/2020/03/16/dow-falls-2997-points-worst-drop-since-87-crash/

6 years ago

390 upvotes – 468 comments

Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak

https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/outbreak/

6 years ago

355 upvotes – 66 comments

GitHub blocked me and all my libraries

https://medium.com/@catamphetamine/how-github-blocked-me-and-all-my-libraries-c32c61f061d3

6 years ago

350 upvotes – 203 comments

The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/flattening-the-coronavirus-curve-is-not-enough/

6 years ago

341 upvotes – 258 comments

Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

https://brave.com/google-internal-data-free-for-all/

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 116 comments

Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/job_snijders/dont-terminate-peoples-internet-connections

6 years ago

304 upvotes – 129 comments

I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)

https://dev.to/deciduously/i-am-mesmerized-by-our-new-robotic-vacuum-10pc

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 179 comments

How I recorded an album on my own, in my room

https://medium.com/@rodrigo.m.mesquita/what-i-learned-recording-an-alternative-album-on-my-own-in-my-room-c440b8201c9

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 110 comments

Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-border-airports-screening-trudeau-covid19-coronavirus-1.5498866

6 years ago

270 upvotes – 182 comments

2020 Stock Market Crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Black_Monday

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 199 comments

Text Processing in the Shell

https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/text-processing-in-the-shell

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 106 comments

One way to fight a coronavirus recession: $1k for every American

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-recession-direct-payments-americans-ubi-c3393d14-33ad-47c2-a739-f2fec150b212.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 280 comments

Kind - run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 72 comments

Low-Cost Arduino-Based Ventilator

https://github.com/jcl5m1/ventilator

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 141 comments

Stay home except for essential needs

https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 151 comments

How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/03/how-do-we-stop-people-blinding-other-drivers-with-aftermarket-leds/

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 224 comments

AWS Session Manager: less infrastructure, more features

https://github.com/symopsio/terraform-okta-ssm-modules/blob/master/docs/AWSSessionManagerLessInfrastructureMoreFeatures.md

6 years ago

199 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591543

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 87 comments

WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows

https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 210 comments

Ask HN: What happens next after a successful lockdown?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22595415

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 201 comments

How I Start: Rust

https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 83 comments

Concentrichron: A clock and calendar made of concentric rings

https://twitter.com/Vector_GL/status/1239512837325758464

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 73 comments

Apple fined $1.2B by French antitrust authorities

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/apple-fined-1point2-billion-by-french-competition-authorities.html

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 88 comments

Mary Dash's Writing Tips

https://plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/dash-writing-tips/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 69 comments

Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/3/15/global-oil-use-heads-for-steepest-annual-contraction-in-history

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 168 comments

Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Starting over after business failure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590265

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 61 comments

Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit

http://www.righto.com/2020/03/looking-inside-vintage-soviet-ttl-logic.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 18 comments

“I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1238837158007447558

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 359 comments

One Word Broke C

https://news.quelsolaar.com/2020/03/16/how-one-word-broke-c/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 253 comments

Backstage: an open platform for building developer portals

https://github.com/spotify/backstage

6 years ago

146 upvotes – 27 comments

Why Not WireGuard

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/why-not-wireguard

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 123 comments

Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV2

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/science.abb3221

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 154 comments

Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions

https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/03/15/writing-shaders-with-signed-distance-functions/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 22 comments

Timeouts and cancellation for humans (2018)

https://vorpus.org/blog/timeouts-and-cancellation-for-humans/

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 37 comments

Irmin: A distributed database written in OCaml

https://irmin.org/

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 8 comments

BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

SoftBank Owned Patent Troll Sues to Block Covid Testing, Using Theranos Patents

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200316/14584244111/softbank-owned-patent-troll-using-monkey-selfie-law-firm-sues-to-block-covid-19-testing-using-theranos-patents.shtml

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 11 comments

Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-way-quantum-breakthrough

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 20 comments

Show HN: Intention – DAG Todo App

https://about.i.ntention.app

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

Discord Is Having an Outage

https://status.discordapp.com/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 113 comments

GNU Make Guile Integration

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Integration.html

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: Best Stripe Alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596082

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 50 comments

S&P 500 drops 9%, extending losses after 15-minute trading halt

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/traders-await-futures-open-after-fed-cuts-rates-launches-easing-program.html

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 157 comments

Writing an SDK with Core Bluetooth

https://littlegreenviper.com/series/bluetooth/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 2 comments

Using JAX, numpy, and optimization techniques to improve separable image filters

https://bartwronski.com/2020/03/15/using-jax-numpy-and-optimization-techniques-to-improve-separable-image-filters/

6 years ago

101 upvotes – 9 comments

Detection of Airborne Viruses

https://www.kth.se/mst/research/sensors/project/detection-airborne-1.523039

6 years ago

99 upvotes – 22 comments

How to fight the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, Covid-19 [pdf]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DqfSnlaW6N3GBc5YKyBOCGPfdqOsqk1G/view

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

Is presentation the cause of loneliness? (2017)

https://kaomorphism.com/2017/10/06/Is-Presentation-The-Cause-Of-Loneliness.html

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 89 comments

Hell is Other People: an experiment in anti-social media

https://hell.j38.net/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 28 comments

Recursive SQL Queries with PostgreSQL

https://towardsdatascience.com/recursive-sql-queries-with-postgresql-87e2a453f1b

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

The EARN-IT Act-Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/the_earn-it_act.html

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 6 comments

TikTok Told Moderators to Suppress Posts by “Ugly” People and the Poor

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 21 comments

U.S. Health Agency Suffers Cyber-Attack During Covid-19 Response

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-9-response

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Actual Causality (2016)

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/papers/causalitybook-ch1-3.html

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Epidemic Calculator

http://gabgoh.github.io/COVID/index.html

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 13 comments

Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network

https://decrypt.co/22538/chinese-miners-hash-halving-coronavirus

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 79 comments

Shadowserver, the web’s bot containment unit, needs help

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/the-webs-bot-containment-unit-needs-your-help/

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 7 comments
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