top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-22

Technical Writing Courses

https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

6 years ago

571 upvotes – 73 comments

Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/22/21184192/sim-racing-coronavirus-f1-nascar-iracing-veloce-esports-max-verstappen-lando-norris

6 years ago

550 upvotes – 232 comments

Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-four-sites-identified-army-corps-engineers-initial-list-temporary

6 years ago

416 upvotes – 508 comments

Zoom monitors activity on your computer

https://twitter.com/Ouren/status/1241398181205889024

6 years ago

405 upvotes – 139 comments

Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of any major browser

https://winbuzzer.com/2020/03/17/researchers-say-microsoft-edges-telemetry-has-the-worst-privacy-of-any-major-browser-xcxwbn/

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 98 comments

Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus

https://www.politico.eu/article/merkel-bans-meetings-of-more-than-2-people-to-slow-coronavirus/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 356 comments

Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)

https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/musculoskeletal-and-rheumatology/2018/october/breathing-exercises

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 119 comments

A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

https://mxb.dev/blog/emergency-website-kit/

6 years ago

323 upvotes – 108 comments

Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/eat-for-1-50-per-day-layoffs-coronavirus-quarantine-food-shortages/

6 years ago

299 upvotes – 277 comments

GreenTunnel: anti-censorship utility designed to bypass deep packet inspection

https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel

6 years ago

★ 4.8k JavaScript MIT
280 upvotes – 77 comments

Show HN: Zoom Redirector

https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector

6 years ago

★ 582 JavaScript MIT
279 upvotes – 92 comments

Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready

6 years ago

264 upvotes – 195 comments

Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13222

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 436 comments

Julia 1.4

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.4.0/NEWS.md

6 years ago

★ 48.6k Julia MIT
243 upvotes – 133 comments

Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rental market were right

https://twitter.com/whimsley/status/1241425945686429699

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 185 comments

Get Static

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2020/03/22/get-static/

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 86 comments

OpenRefine – free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data

https://openrefine.org

6 years ago

235 upvotes – 23 comments

Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter

https://prettier.io/blog/2020/03/21/2.0.0.html

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 90 comments

Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5

https://audacious-media-player.org/news/45-audacious-4-0-released

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 176 comments

Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/climate/coronavirus-usa-traffic.html

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 181 comments

TSMC Details 5 nm

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3398/tsmc-details-5-nm/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 101 comments

Ask HN: How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22654131

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 167 comments

Remembering the LAN

https://crawshaw.io/blog/remembering-the-lan

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 74 comments

How the CDC’s restrictive testing guidelines hid the coronavirus epidemic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-cdcs-restrictive-testing-guidelines-hid-the-coronavirus-epidemic-11584882001

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 292 comments

Stagnation and Scientific Incentives

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26752

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 107 comments

How to program a text adventure in C (2016)

http://home.hccnet.nl/r.helderman/adventures/htpataic01.html

6 years ago

177 upvotes – 35 comments

Basic skeletal animation with geometric algebra

https://www.jeremyong.com/klein/case_studies/ga_skeletal_animation/

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22656749

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 185 comments

'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential 'worst case' scenario

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/pandemic-ventilator-coronvirus-hospitals-1.5493830

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 116 comments

Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home

https://unraid.net/blog/help-take-the-fight-to-covid-19-with-boinc-or-folding-home

6 years ago

159 upvotes – 61 comments

Current Wuhan Situation

https://twitter.com/heylauragao/status/1241620966762938370

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 122 comments

Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming (2018)

https://mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 51 comments

On Scaling Mental Models

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/on-scaling-mental-models/

6 years ago

147 upvotes – 58 comments

BOLT: Binary Optimization and Layout Tool

https://github.com/facebookincubator/BOLT

6 years ago

★ 2.5k
140 upvotes – 23 comments

Prolog and Logic Programming Historical Sources Archive

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/prolog/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 33 comments

Turn a snorkeling mask into a respiratory mask for assisted ventilation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Csqdxkrfw

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 27 comments

This project posts one new startup idea every day for a year

https://www.billiondollarstartupideas.com/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 34 comments

Ffcms – FFmpeg's -filter_complex made simple

http://stryku.pl/poetry/ffcms.html

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

Improved Geometric Specular Antialiasing [pdf]

http://www.jp.square-enix.com/tech/library/pdf/ImprovedGeometricSpecularAA(slides).pdf

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 2 comments

Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling – new series on YouTube

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-101-jeff-geerling-new-series-on-youtube

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Liquid metal renaissance points to wearables, soft robots, and new materials

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/10/5088

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Open Ventilator Registry

https://github.com/openventilatorregistry/OpenVentilatorRegistry

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 23 comments

Shall We Play a Market Timing Game? (2018)

https://engaging-data.com/market-timing-game/

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 50 comments

I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/scott-kelly-coronavirus-isolation.html

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data

https://cybernews.com/security/report-unidentified-database-exposes-200-million-americans/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 42 comments

ARM-Ed Mac: We Have an Answer

https://mondaynote.com/arm-ed-mac-we-have-an-answer-545a20419a46

6 years ago

82 upvotes – 138 comments

A lecture on differential equations using GNU TeXmacs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILiL4m61BLw

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 2 comments

What we can learn from Camus’s “The Plague”

https://lithub.com/what-we-can-learn-and-should-unlearn-from-albert-camuss-the-plague/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments

Ask HN: How do you guys deal with laziness?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22659816

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 45 comments

Paul Graham donates to flexport.org for healthcare worker protective gear in SF

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1241036939907624961

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 32 comments

The Design of the US Interstate Highway System (1944) [pdf]

https://www.enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/membersOnly-1944-Interregional-Highways.pdf

6 years ago

72 upvotes – 18 comments

A World Without Strings Is Chaos

http://beyondloom.com/blog/strings.html

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 59 comments
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