woid

top stories

Hacker News (Mar 2020)

  1. Grief in Ethiopia as trailblazing Australian doctor dies

    306 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  2. Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City

    306 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  3. Postgres Explain Visualizer

    304 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  4. Don’t bail out the cruise industry

    304 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  5. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

    304 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  6. Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone

    303 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  7. RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki

    302 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  8. Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building

    302 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  9. Letter to Myself in Late 2008

    301 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  10. NBA suspends season over the coronavirus after player tests positive

    301 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  11. YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month

    300 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  12. U.S. govt, tech industry discuss using location data to combat coronavirus

    300 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  13. Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month

    298 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  14. CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off

    298 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  15. New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro

    297 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  16. Darling – Run macOS software on Linux

    295 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  17. Clojure on the Desktop

    294 points • comment • mar 28, 2020

  18. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42

    293 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  19. Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections

    292 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  20. Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements

    292 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  21. Waymo Via

    292 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  22. Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars

    291 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  23. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

    290 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  24. Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago

    289 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  25. Popcorn Time 4.0

    288 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  26. I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)

    288 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  27. Show HN: Simulation-based high school physics course notes

    287 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  28. Show HN: Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard

    287 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  29. An animal that doesn't breathe oxygen

    286 points • comment • mar 23, 2020

  30. Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites

    285 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  31. FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test

    284 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  32. Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy

    284 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  33. The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

    284 points • comment • mar 07, 2020

  34. Clear Your Terminal in Style

    284 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  35. China Bans Americans Working for WSJ, NYT, WaPo

    284 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  36. What Is the Geometry of the Universe?

    283 points • comment • mar 17, 2020

  37. Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]

    283 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  38. Ryzen 4000 Review

    282 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  39. Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access

    282 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  40. Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

    281 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  41. God be with you till we meet again (1918)

    281 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  42. Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf]

    281 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  43. Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips

    281 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  44. FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system

    281 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  45. Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data

    280 points • comment • mar 09, 2020

  46. Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat

    280 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  47. NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs

    280 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  48. Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond

    280 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  49. Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers

    277 points • comment • mar 01, 2020

  50. Planning and Managing Layoffs

    277 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  51. Don't write documentation in Markdown

    276 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  52. Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

    275 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  53. Shopify is giving its employees $1k to furnish their work-from-home setups

    275 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  54. How I recorded an album on my own, in my room

    274 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

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

    274 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  56. The Polygons of Another World: Atari Jaguar

    273 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  57. What the last few weeks have been like for the CEO of Slack

    273 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  58. CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?

    272 points • comment • mar 25, 2020

  59. Signs you're following a fake Twitter account

    272 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  60. Mac mini

    271 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  61. Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19

    271 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  62. Why the EAX register of x86 is called that

    271 points • comment • mar 21, 2020

  63. Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero

    271 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  64. Illustrated Jq Tutorial

    271 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  65. A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]

    269 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  66. How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success

    268 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  67. Why N95 masks are hard to make

    268 points • comment • mar 18, 2020

  68. Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys

    268 points • comment • mar 06, 2020

  69. Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call

    268 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

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

    267 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  71. Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab

    267 points • comment • mar 20, 2020

  72. Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine

    267 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  73. Lesspass – open-source stateless password manager

    267 points • comment • mar 15, 2020

  74. Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

    267 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  75. This Artwork Does Not Exist

    266 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  76. Oil plummets 30% as OPEC deal failure sparks price war fears

    266 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  77. Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)

    265 points • comment • mar 16, 2020

  78. The History of the URL

    265 points • comment • mar 05, 2020

  79. White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations

    265 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  80. Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic

    265 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  81. Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic

    265 points • comment • mar 30, 2020

  82. Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads

    265 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  83. Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)

    265 points • comment • mar 02, 2020

  84. Industry spent millions selling recycling, to sell more plastic

    265 points • comment • mar 31, 2020

  85. CDC coronavirus testing decision likely to haunt nation for months to come

    264 points • comment • mar 24, 2020

  86. Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions

    264 points • comment • mar 27, 2020

  87. Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19

    264 points • comment • mar 14, 2020

  88. Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)

    264 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  89. Exponential Growth and Covid-19 [video]

    263 points • comment • mar 08, 2020

  90. Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012)

    263 points • comment • mar 29, 2020

  91. Thinking Psycopg3

    262 points • comment • mar 11, 2020

  92. Show HN: Zoom Redirector

    262 points • comment • mar 22, 2020

  93. Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?

    262 points • comment • mar 10, 2020

  94. Stop using Material Design text fields

    262 points • comment • mar 04, 2020

  95. Show HN: I made a site that aggregates entry-level positions

    262 points • comment • mar 26, 2020

  96. A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

    261 points • comment • mar 13, 2020

  97. Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app

    261 points • comment • mar 12, 2020

  98. Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?

    261 points • comment • mar 03, 2020

  99. UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk

    260 points • comment • mar 19, 2020

  100. US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code

    259 points • comment • mar 07, 2020