top 50% 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

★ 498 Dart
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

Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-10-release/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 168 comments

Time to Ban Wet Markets

https://spectator.us/time-ban-wet-markets/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 200 comments

Linux was first released to the world from here 17.9.1991

http://ftp.funet.fi/

6 years ago

181 upvotes – 106 comments

When to Copy Ideas, When to Steal Ideas

https://davidnicholaswilliams.com/when-to-copy-ideas-when-to-steal-ideas/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 20 comments

The Troublesome Active Record Pattern

http://calpaterson.com/activerecord.html

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 98 comments

LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking

https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 84 comments

New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/new-macbook-air-has-more-to-love-and-is-now-just-999/

6 years ago

153 upvotes – 100 comments

GraphQLize: JVM library to build GraphQL API instantly from PostgreSQL and MySQL

https://www.graphqlize.org/blog/announcing-graphqlize-alpha

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 59 comments

Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster

https://ttt.io/anatomy-of-my-kubernetes-cluster

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 36 comments

Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers

https://email.levels.fyi/t/v/8fd44f81-e530-474c-af6a-0d999c33c658/d4660a8a-afa7-4989-9718-d6d3cc71f3c0

6 years ago

137 upvotes – 65 comments

Mark Cuban says bailed out companies should never be allowed to buy back stocks

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/mark-cuban-says-bailed-out-companies-should-never-be-allowed-to-buy-back-their-stocks-ever-again.html

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 94 comments

New York City Weighs Turning Hotels into Hospitals

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-weighs-turning-hotels-into-hospitals-11584556841

6 years ago

134 upvotes – 103 comments

Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-futures-fall-asian-markets-mixed-11584498324

6 years ago

133 upvotes – 224 comments

One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-darwin-evolution-theories-cambridge.html

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 83 comments

Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications

https://www.kdab.com/using-visual-studio-code-for-qt-apps-pt-1/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Zectl – ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux

https://ramsdenj.com/2020/03/18/zectl-zfs-boot-environment-manager-for-linux.html

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 25 comments

The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community

https://anthonydgreen.net/2020/03/15/a-primer-on-why-the-chronic-suffering-of-the-vb-net-community-is-neither-necessary-nor-a-matter-of-expense-or-practicality/

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 95 comments

Senate passes bill to provide benefits to individuals and small businesses

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817737690/senate-passes-coronavirus-emergency-aid-sending-plan-to-president

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 118 comments

PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/03/pigpaxos-devouring-communication_18.html

6 years ago

103 upvotes – 20 comments

‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona influencers

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/im-not-an-epidemiologist-but-the-rise-of-the-corona

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 179 comments

Show HN: Moving from a desktop hologram lab to a 3D hologram printer

https://www.litiholo.com/hologram-kits.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: I made a point of sale system with self-service for mobile devices

https://www.flexiblepos.com/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 31 comments

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

RPC Olympics – The Search for the Perfect RPC Protocol

https://www.perimeterx.com/tech-blog/2020/rpc-olympics/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 70 comments

99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

A Defer Statement for C

https://github.com/moon-chilled/Defer

6 years ago

★ 253 C MIT
77 upvotes – 53 comments

How Much Toilet Paper? – The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator

https://howmuchtoiletpaper.com/

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 60 comments

A Five-Hour, $5k “Super Physical” Exam

https://www.insidehook.com/article/welcome-to-the-era-of-the-five-hour-5000-super-physical-exam

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 55 comments

Across furtive videocons, junior VCs wait for the layoffs to begin

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/across-furtive-videocons-junior-vcs-wait-for-the-layoffs-to-begin/

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 46 comments
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