top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-10

Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/

6 years ago

A (possible) solution to Covid-19

https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/05/a-solution-to-covid-19/

6 years ago

Senate Stock Watcher

https://senatestockwatcher.com

6 years ago

A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets

6 years ago

E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall

https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494

6 years ago

The software industry's greatest sin: hiring

https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring

6 years ago

Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

https://markmap.js.org/

6 years ago

The Global Dollar Short Squeeze

https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/

6 years ago

Firefox 75.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/

6 years ago

Make Linux Fast Again (2019)

https://make-linux-fast-again.com/

6 years ago

COBOL programmers answer call

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/cobol-programmers-answer-call-unemployment-benefits-systems

6 years ago

Show HN: Write generative fine art in Rust

https://paytonturnage.gitbook.io/valora/

6 years ago

What's Next for Scala

http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala.html

6 years ago

FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation

https://www.freerdp.com/

6 years ago

Systems that defy detailed understanding

https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understanding/

6 years ago

3D photographic inpainting from a single source image

https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/

6 years ago

Pointless

https://ptls.dev/

6 years ago

How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-coronavirus-and-how-the-united-states-ended-up-with-nurses-wearing-garbage-bags

6 years ago

Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases

6 years ago

★ 1.6k JavaScript Apache-2.0

First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1248707315626201088

6 years ago

Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter

http://readastorytome.com/

6 years ago

A Long Time Until the Economic New Normal

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-long-time-until-the-economic-new-normal/

6 years ago

SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from confirmed cases

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20051540v1

6 years ago

Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations

https://github.com/braidchat/braid

6 years ago

★ 937 Clojure

Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)

http://www.neilconway.org/talks/hacking/

6 years ago

“Samsung Rising” goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216092/samsung-rising-book-interview-geoffrey-cain

6 years ago

Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear them?

https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/04/some-shirts-hide-you-from-cameras-but-will-anyone-wear-them/

6 years ago

Ode to J

https://zserge.com/posts/j/

6 years ago

Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system

https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/04/10/leaky.html

6 years ago

Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany

https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/corona-deutschland-intensiv-betten-monitor-krankenhaus-auslastung/

6 years ago

Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems

https://vladikk.com/2020/04/09/untangling-microservices

6 years ago

Show HN: Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker, or what to do when GitHub is down

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

6 years ago

★ 9.8k Go GPL-3.0

Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews

https://andrewrondeau.com/blog/2020/04/take-home-vs-whiteboard-coding-the-problem-is-bad-interviews

6 years ago

Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (2015)

https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393

6 years ago

Mort Drucker has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/arts/mort-drucker-dead.html

6 years ago

IDA Home is coming

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida-home-is-coming/

6 years ago

Ride down into JavaScript dependency hell

https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/04/09/ride-down-the-javascript-dependency-hell.html

6 years ago

Fed should pay every American, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out’

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-should-pay-every-american-more-let-hedge-funds-and-billionaires-get-wiped-out-says-social-capital-ceo-2020-04-09

6 years ago

SIMD instructions

https://opensourceweekly.org/issues/7

6 years ago

There Is No Plan to Return to Normalcy in 2020

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment

6 years ago

We need to talk about AirPods Pro

https://medium.com/macoclock/we-need-to-talk-about-airpods-pro-4bbd2533e031

6 years ago

CuPy Accelerates NumPy on the GPU? Hold My Cider, Here's Clojure

https://dragan.rocks/articles/20/Clojure-Numpy-Cupy-CPU-GPU

6 years ago

Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52236936

6 years ago

Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-scientists-tokyo-skytree-einstein-theory.html

6 years ago

A survey of testing techniques we've found useful

https://vector.dev/blog/how-we-test-vector/

6 years ago

Introduction to Cybernetics (1957)

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

6 years ago

The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was

https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/04/10/remembering-the-nucleon-fords-1958-nuclear-powered-concept-car-that-never-was/

6 years ago

Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification

https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

6 years ago

Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/apple-and-google-partner-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/

6 years ago

How to Avoid the Assignment Statement (2010)

http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/avoid-assignment

6 years ago

The Print Book Trade, and Money

https://mwl.io/archives/6210

6 years ago

Why Is the Stock Market Booming?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/upshot/virus-stock-market-booming.html

6 years ago

Mental models around Ok-Wrapping

https://vorner.github.io/2020/04/09/wrapping-mental-models.html

6 years ago

Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)

https://books.google.nl/books?id=JT0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA33&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

6 years ago

How to Win a Currency War

https://www.lynalden.com/currency-war/

6 years ago

Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?

https://www.planetscale.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-at-planetscale-engineering-why-is-multi-cloud-a-hard-problem

6 years ago

Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/why-coronavirus-vaccine-could-take-way-longer-than-a-year/

6 years ago

Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences

6 years ago

Why did GE Moore disappear from history?

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/ge-moore-philosophy-books-analytic-ray-monk-biography

6 years ago