top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-03-25

Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

https://andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwas-are-hard-but-now-apple-made-them-impossible.html

6 years ago

WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days

https://ar.al/2020/03/25/apple-just-killed-offline-web-apps-while-purporting-to-protect-your-privacy-why-thats-a-bad-thing-and-why-you-should-care/

6 years ago

Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/

6 years ago

A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP

https://0x90.psaux.io/2020/03/01/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already-Yours-Router-Wars-Episode-I/

6 years ago

Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

https://bingetogether.com/

6 years ago

Unity Learn platform free for three months

https://learn.unity.com/

6 years ago

Show HN: Skynet Simulator

http://skynetsimulator.com/

6 years ago

Speeding up Linux disk encryption

https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryption/

6 years ago

Ask HN: How to self-study physics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682837

6 years ago

MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust

https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch

6 years ago

★ 57.3k Rust

Getting started with bare-metal assembly

https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html

6 years ago

Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

https://qz.com/1824020/social-distancing-slowing-not-only-covid-19-but-other-diseases-too/

6 years ago

Letter to Myself in Late 2008

https://dalton.substack.com/p/letter-to-myself-in-late-2008

6 years ago

Ventilators 101: What they do and how they work

https://hackaday.com/2020/03/25/ventilators-101-what-they-do-and-how-they-work/

6 years ago

Show HN: Explore Quake/Half-Life maps in your browser

https://github.com/sbuggay/bspview

6 years ago

★ 216 TypeScript

Ask HN: Best sleep trackers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685537

6 years ago

Unsupervised learning of probably symmetric deformable 3D objects from images

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/blog/unsupervised-learning-of-probably-symmetric-deformable-3d-objects-from-images-in-the-wild.html?image=004_face&type=human

6 years ago

Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video]

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/jane-and-compiler/

6 years ago

Top U.S. cities have seen internet speeds decline this past week

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/25/88-out-of-top-200-u-s-cities-have-seen-internet-speeds-decline-this-past-week-3-cities-by-more-than-40/

6 years ago

Kubernetes 1.18

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/03/25/kubernetes-1-18-release-announcement/

6 years ago

BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989

https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/

6 years ago

Amiga Machine Code Course

https://www.markwrobel.dk/project/amigamachinecode/

6 years ago

How different are different diff algorithms in Git?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10664-019-09772-z

6 years ago

Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren’t So Sure

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/billionaires-want-people-back-to-work-workers-aren-t-so-sure

6 years ago

The 480

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_480

6 years ago

Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes

https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit

6 years ago

★ 203 Go MIT

Open Food Facts

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

6 years ago

YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

https://www.ycombinator.com/covid

6 years ago

Show HN: Panther v1.0 – Open Source, Cloud-Native SIEM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22686913

6 years ago

LICEcap: Simple Animated Screen Captures

https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

6 years ago

The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature (2010)

http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article030107.html

6 years ago

Show HN: pion/ion, self-hosted conferencing software with single command deploy

https://github.com/pion/ion

6 years ago

★ 21 Go MIT

Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-the-fastest-storage-for-flagship-smartphones

6 years ago

Smalltalk-87

http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/things/smalltalk-things/smalltalk-87

6 years ago

Open-sourced Covid-19 testing site search tool and assessment

https://github.com/oscarhealth/covid19-testing

6 years ago

★ 93 JavaScript Apache-2.0

Pouring one out for the end of O’Reilly’s in-person conferences

https://morningmindmeld.com/issues/pouring-one-out-for-the-end-of-o-reilly-s-in-person-conferences-232826

6 years ago

GraphQL Mesh

https://github.com/Urigo/graphql-mesh

6 years ago

★ 3.4k TypeScript MIT

The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/arts/music/blurred-lines-led-zeppelin-copyright.html

6 years ago

Exceptional failure: breaking the STM32F1 read-out protection

https://blog.zapb.de/stm32f1-exceptional-failure/

6 years ago

Toronto is gathering cellphone location data to find people congregating

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/city-of-toronto-gathering-cellphone-location-data-from-telecoms-in-bid-to-slow-spread-of-covid-19-tory

6 years ago

Twenty-one year old with no pre-existing conditions dies from Coronavirus

https://www.yorkshirecoastradio.com/news/national/3069302/coronavirus-briton-21-with-no-existing-health-conditions-dies-after-contracting-covid-19/

6 years ago

Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

https://git.mysticmode.org/r/sorcia

6 years ago

Show HN: Web Skills – A Visual Learning Guide for Web Developers

https://andreasbm.github.io/web-skills/

6 years ago

How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-face-mask.html

6 years ago

Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

6 years ago

What to do if your startup is running out of cash

https://marker.medium.com/how-to-manage-a-business-thats-running-out-of-cash-a9e109a2f254

6 years ago

TXR Lisp

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html

6 years ago

The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00758-2

6 years ago