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Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. Show HN: Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes

    384 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  2. California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order

    382 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  3. Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero

    382 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  4. Tips for the depressed

    381 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  5. How I survived being a $220k/year intern

    381 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  6. Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics

    381 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  7. MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons

    380 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  8. San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

    379 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  9. Not being an asshole will make you more money

    379 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  10. Gitlab features that are moving to open source

    377 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  11. We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing

    377 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  12. Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash

    374 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  13. Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

    371 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  14. Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread

    371 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  15. Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

    370 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  16. Please Fund More Science

    370 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  17. Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

    368 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  18. How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript

    368 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  19. Gates Foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in Seattle

    367 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  20. The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

    366 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  21. Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler

    366 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  22. Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

    365 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  23. Open UI

    365 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  24. Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine

    363 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  25. Albert Uderzo has died

    363 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  26. Revoking certain certificates on March 4

    361 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  27. Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak

    360 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  28. Zoom monitors activity on your computer

    359 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  29. Payment Request API

    358 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  30. Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust

    357 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  31. A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax

    357 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  32. AWS Ground Station

    356 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  33. DefaultApp

    355 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  34. Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls

    355 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

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

    354 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  36. Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

    353 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  37. Travelling with 24” Monitors

    352 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  38. Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of

    352 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  39. Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

    351 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  40. Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

    349 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  41. Why soap works so well on most viruses

    348 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  42. The End of Starsky Robotics

    348 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  43. Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]

    347 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  44. Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak

    347 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  45. Dolt is Git for data

    347 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  46. Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?

    345 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  47. E3 2020 Cancelled

    344 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  48. Ask HN: Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business?

    342 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  49. Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19

    342 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  50. Setting up Git identities

    341 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  51. Apple CarPlay, Android Auto distract drivers more than pot, alcohol, says study

    340 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  52. India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus

    338 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  53. FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours

    337 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  54. Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)

    336 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  55. Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions

    335 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  56. Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library

    333 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  57. S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week

    332 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  58. Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing

    331 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  59. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

    331 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  60. The Octo-Bouncer

    331 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  61. GitHub blocked me and all my libraries

    329 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  62. Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software

    329 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  63. U.S. Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

    327 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  64. Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Course

    327 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  65. Man built a bunker under Hampstead Heath and lived in it for two years

    326 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  66. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

    325 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

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

    325 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  68. Kateryna Yushchenko

    323 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  69. The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

    323 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  70. A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs

    323 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  71. The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago

    322 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  72. Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat

    322 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  73. “C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers

    321 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  74. Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day

    319 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  75. Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid

    318 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  76. Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized in oven

    318 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  77. Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus

    318 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  78. Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

    317 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  79. The Philosophy of Computer Science (2017)

    317 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  80. Build stuff

    316 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  81. MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

    316 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  82. Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protection and pay

    315 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  83. A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

    314 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  84. Concurrent Programming, with Examples

    314 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  85. Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, documents, or images to safe PDF

    312 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  86. Rust Ownership Rules

    312 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  87. Pandemic Ventilator Project

    312 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  88. Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (2019)

    311 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  89. Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

    311 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  90. Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project

    311 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  91. Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration

    311 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

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

    310 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  93. Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?

    309 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  94. The good parts of AWS: a visual summary

    309 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  95. Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

    308 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  96. Little known features of iTerm2

    308 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  97. The human genome is full of viruses

    308 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  98. The northern-hemisphere winter of 2019-20 was the warmest ever on land

    308 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  99. Show HN: A “living” Linux process with no memory

    307 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  100. Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

    307 points • comment • mar 16, 2020