top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-03-18

Ask HN: Have you been laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22618788

6 years ago

800 upvotes – 645 comments

New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apple-unveils-new-ipad-pro-with-lidar-scanner-and-trackpad-support-in-ipados/

6 years ago

638 upvotes – 649 comments

Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857

6 years ago

626 upvotes – 261 comments

Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers

https://helpwithcovid.com/

6 years ago

601 upvotes – 204 comments

New MacBook Air

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

6 years ago

574 upvotes – 576 comments

1% rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

6 years ago

465 upvotes – 151 comments

Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html

6 years ago

424 upvotes – 82 comments

Free virtual tours of 2,500 museums around the world

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en

6 years ago

420 upvotes – 30 comments

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 105 comments

The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html

6 years ago

379 upvotes – 234 comments

For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earned-Now They Want Bailout

https://thesoundingline.com/for-years-wall-street-spent-more-on-buybacks-and-dividends-than-it-actually-earned-now-they-want-a-taxpayer-bailout/

6 years ago

353 upvotes – 264 comments

Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

https://neherlab.org/covid19/

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 100 comments

Mac mini

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 248 comments

Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?

https://www.wired.com/story/toilet-paper-shortage-bidet-sales-boom/

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 281 comments

Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses

http://craftinginterpreters.com/superclasses.html

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 46 comments

The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-longest-record-broken%3A-gold-silver-ratio-hits-highest-in-over-5000-years-2020-03-17

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 330 comments

25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-house-russia-180974426/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 41 comments

Andreessen vs. Thiel (2017)

https://allenleein.github.io/2019/06/12/games2.html

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: Helm - A Flutter app that gamifies stress/anxiety/depression management

https://github.com/chuabingquan/helm

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 61 comments

We are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/upcoming-chrome-releases.html

6 years ago

193 upvotes – 75 comments
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