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1.

U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days (www.nbcnews.com)

253 points by sahin-boydas 2020-03-12 | 119 comments

2.

S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt (www.bloomberg.com)

193 points by zzeder 2020-03-09 | 197 comments

3.

Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine (www.reuters.com)

185 points by nocturnial 2020-03-15 | 100 comments

4.

Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board (www.prnewswire.com)

180 points by janvdberg 2020-03-13 | 55 comments

5.

I Survived Being A $220k/year Intern (matt.sh)

172 points by nodivbyzero 2020-03-08 | 40 comments

6.

GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)

172 points by juancampa 2020-04-02 | 67 comments

7.

Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread (www.flattenthecurve.com)

162 points by tectonic 2020-03-10 | 63 comments

8.

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act (blogs.harvard.edu)

159 points by seapunk 2020-03-27 | 53 comments

9.

WireGuard 1.0.0 Released (lore.kernel.org)

156 points by iamd3vil 2020-03-30 | 16 comments

10.

Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of (protonmail.com)

155 points by teekert 2020-03-23 | 41 comments

11.

I think catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH (feed.tyler.io)

146 points by chmaynard 2020-03-31 | 67 comments

12.

United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus (bookwithcarry.com)

140 points by jrdngonen 2020-03-16 | 22 comments

13.

Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom (meet.jitsi.net)

137 points by LockAndLol 2020-03-23 | 46 comments

14.

China Bans Americans Working for WSJ, NYT, WaPo (www.wsj.com)

134 points by big_chungus 2020-03-17 | 44 comments

15.

Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (andrewkelley.me)

134 points by hazebooth 2020-03-24 | 16 comments

16.

Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools (www.thelocal.dk)

131 points by mixmax 2020-03-11 | 64 comments

17.

Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine (www.axios.com)

130 points by maayank 2020-03-23 | 140 comments

18.

DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use (www.bitlog.com)

128 points by braythwayt 2020-03-06 | 70 comments

19.

Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash (www.mortgagerateguru.com)

125 points by blackhat2017 2020-03-16 | 94 comments

20.

Covid-19 Is Now Officially a Pandemic, WHO Says (www.npr.org)

123 points by tmlee 2020-03-11 | 15 comments

21.

CoreJS project is dead after maintainer is sentenced to 1.5 years jail (github.com)

121 points by SenHeng 2020-03-25 | 35 comments

22.

New iPad Pro with Lidar Scanner, trackpad support on iPadOS (www.apple.com)

121 points by Austin_Conlon 2020-03-18 | 95 comments

23.

Markdown is an excellent choice for documentation (www.jeffgeerling.com)

118 points by geerlingguy 2020-03-24 | 39 comments

24.

CLI tool to get corona data in the terminal (www.combatnerd.com)

118 points by hekul 2020-03-21 | 5 comments

25.

GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization (www.bloomberg.com)

117 points by avonmach 2020-03-19 | 52 comments

26.

Man who stockpiled hand sanitizer donates it all ahead of investigation (thehill.com)

111 points by anigbrowl 2020-03-16 | 88 comments

27.

U.S. Labor Department allows unemployment benefits for Coronavirus (www.reuters.com)

110 points by djsumdog 2020-03-13 | 41 comments

28.

Italy to close all stores apart from food shops and pharmacies (www.thelocal.it)

109 points by stclaus 2020-03-11 | 39 comments

29.

Was Pre-Corona Stock Market a Bubble Inflated by “Financial Engineering”? (www.openpolitics.com)

107 points by timlangeman 2020-03-27 | 51 comments

30.

WWDC to Be Moved Online (developer.apple.com)

104 points by css 2020-03-13 | 27 comments

31.

Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica, fine could scale to $529BN (techcrunch.com)

102 points by ajaviaad 2020-03-09 | 21 comments

32.

Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet (www.axios.com)

101 points by batmenace 2020-03-09 | 28 comments

33.

Robinhood Is Down (status.robinhood.com)

100 points by ericliuche 2020-03-09 | 76 comments

34.

Dark Sky Has a New Home (blog.darksky.net)

100 points by LittleAthena 2020-03-31 | 67 comments

35.

Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”? (shkspr.mobi)

100 points by edent 2020-03-06 | 25 comments

36.

Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf] (www.dol.gov)

98 points by treyfitty 2020-04-02 | 70 comments

37.

Don't Be Italy (observablehq.com)

98 points by jefftk 2020-03-15 | 23 comments

38.

3.28 Million File for U.S. Jobless Benefits (www.wsj.com)

98 points by treyfitty 2020-03-26 | 80 comments

39.

FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf] (docs.fcc.gov)

94 points by hbcondo714 2020-03-31 | 13 comments

40.

Zoom private chat text between attendees is actually public (twitter.com)

94 points by manigandham 2020-03-30 | 9 comments

41.

April Is Canceled (aprilcanceled.com)

93 points by dannymx 2020-04-01 | 84 comments

42.

Cloud Storage for $2 / TB / Mo (blog.sia.tech)

93 points by beedrillzzzzz 2020-03-06 | 27 comments

43.

S&P 500 drops 7% triggering 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week (www.bloomberg.com)

93 points by rococode 2020-03-12 | 99 comments

44.

Stocks Halt; Oil and Bonds Drop in Sync (www.wsj.com)

91 points by JumpCrisscross 2020-03-18 | 123 comments

45.

How the government prints and distributes money [video] (www.youtube.com)

90 points by 3xblah 2020-03-27 | 5 comments

46.

NCAA Cancels March Madness and Other Championships (www.ncaa.org)

90 points by infodocket 2020-03-12 | 32 comments

47.

Stock Futures Were Halted Sunday Night After 5% Drop (www.nasdaq.com)

90 points by flowerlad 2020-03-09 | 35 comments

48.

SXSW Cancelled Due to Coronavirus (techcrunch.com)

90 points by estreeper 2020-03-06 | 17 comments

49.

Young and unafraid of the pandemic? Good for you. Now stop killing people (www.newsweek.com)

87 points by pseudolus 2020-03-11 | 29 comments

50.

Popcorn Time 4.0 (github.com)

86 points by ncdlek 2020-03-17 | 48 comments

51.

Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies (www.axios.com)

86 points by hhs 2020-03-11 | 31 comments

52.

Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero (www.washingtonpost.com)

86 points by ncw96 2020-03-15 | 36 comments

53.

Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to stop 'misleading data' for pilots (www.theregister.co.uk)

84 points by edward 2020-04-02 | 31 comments

54.

Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold (www.forbes.com)

84 points by rectang 2020-03-17 | 79 comments

55.

Lyme Disease Bacteria Eradicated by New Drug in Early Tests (scopeblog.stanford.edu)

83 points by dempedempe 2020-04-02 | 14 comments

56.

New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro (system76.com)

82 points by _jordan 2020-03-23 | 53 comments

57.

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

82 points by teslademigod1 2020-03-22 | 32 comments

58.

Chelsea Manning ordered to be released from custody [pdf] (www.courtlistener.com)

81 points by pera 2020-03-12 | 27 comments

59.

White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations (mobile.reuters.com)

81 points by zigzaggy 2020-03-11 | 39 comments

60.

Gates foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in seattle (techcrunch.com)

80 points by ajaviaad 2020-03-08 | 26 comments

61.

Charter engineer quits over “reckless” rules against work-from-home (arstechnica.com)

80 points by neuland 2020-03-17 | 16 comments

62.

Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf] (video-intl.alicdn.com)

79 points by dragonsh 2020-03-19 | 7 comments

63.

All my friends are dying (www.josiahzayner.com)

78 points by James_Henry 2020-04-01 | 0 comments

64.

LLVM 10.0.0 Release (lists.llvm.org)

78 points by zmodem 2020-03-24 | 7 comments

65.

Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have lost jobs or hours, poll finds (www.latimes.com)

78 points by myth_drannon 2020-03-17 | 34 comments

66.

Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve (www.techdirt.com)

77 points by djsumdog 2020-03-18 | 16 comments

67.

How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People (mattstoller.substack.com)

76 points by 0xd3adbeef 2020-04-01 | 14 comments

68.

Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (theintercept.com)

75 points by tonyztan 2020-03-31 | 17 comments

69.

Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US (thehill.com)

74 points by yadongwen 2020-03-14 | 46 comments

70.

Zoom Client Leaks Windows Login Credentials to Attackers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

74 points by LinuxBender 2020-04-01 | 5 comments

71.

Berlin Clubs stream live music (en.unitedwestream.berlin)

74 points by zwaps 2020-03-20 | 6 comments

72.

Layoffs Are Coming (jacobian.org)

74 points by craigkerstiens 2020-03-15 | 49 comments

73.

New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave (techcrunch.com)

73 points by jbegley 2020-03-10 | 15 comments

74.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive for coronavirus (www.reuters.com)

73 points by pseudolus 2020-03-13 | 28 comments

75.

Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community (left.it)

72 points by magoghm 2020-03-14 | 1 comments

76.

AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation (github.com)

71 points by phoe-krk 2020-03-11 | 7 comments

77.

Alphabet in bid to buy Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

71 points by quijoteuniv 2020-04-01 | 17 comments

78.

A Movement to Stop the Covid-19 Pandemic (staythefuckhome.com)

71 points by arto 2020-03-11 | 44 comments

79.

How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? (htmldom.dev)

70 points by velmu 2020-04-02 | 19 comments

80.

$5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA (www.caloes.ca.gov)

69 points by quizme2000 2020-03-14 | 87 comments

81.

‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona influencers (www.buzzfeednews.com)

69 points by hhs 2020-03-18 | 73 comments

82.

BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design (www.theverge.com)

69 points by Tomte 2020-03-05 | 40 comments

83.

Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All (www.newsweek.com)

69 points by smacktoward 2020-03-12 | 29 comments

84.

Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days (www.bbc.co.uk)

68 points by tompagenet2 2020-03-19 | 42 comments

85.

The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers (www.england.nhs.uk)

68 points by OJFord 2020-03-24 | 59 comments

86.

New York City Weighs Turning Hotels into Hospitals (www.wsj.com)

68 points by JumpCrisscross 2020-03-18 | 47 comments

87.

Max Von Sydow dies aged 90 (www.bbc.co.uk)

67 points by SuperGent 2020-03-09 | 17 comments

88.

WeWork sells Meetup (techcrunch.com)

67 points by uptown 2020-03-30 | 32 comments

89.

Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls (www.autocar.co.uk)

67 points by trenning 2020-03-31 | 30 comments

90.

Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire” (www.theguardian.com)

67 points by knzhou 2020-03-15 | 51 comments

91.

Denuvo protected games are getting cracked on average after 74 days (www.iscracked.info)

66 points by walterstucco 2020-03-21 | 8 comments

92.

Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1 Could Be Game Changer (www.bloomberg.com)

66 points by montalbano 2020-03-16 | 8 comments

93.

USA tried to pay Germans so coronavirus cure vaccine would be exclusive to USA (www.businessinsider.com)

66 points by onetimemanytime 2020-03-15 | 24 comments

94.

Enterprise companies now spending $10k per employee per year on SaaS (www.ibj.com)

65 points by roxanneonhacker 2020-03-05 | 48 comments

95.

How we recovered over $300k of Bitcoin (reperiendi.wordpress.com)

65 points by mathgenius 2020-04-03 | 3 comments

96.

'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible Are All Forgeries (www.nationalgeographic.com)

65 points by danso 2020-03-13 | 16 comments

97.

I'm not sure there is ... an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing (threadreaderapp.com)

65 points by michaelt 2020-03-16 | 77 comments

98.

San Francisco bans public events 1000 people or more (thehill.com)

65 points by maerF0x0 2020-03-11 | 32 comments

99.

Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions (blog.obdev.at)

64 points by guessmyname 2020-03-24 | 10 comments

100.

50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are completely asymptomatic (www.repubblica.it)

64 points by fortran77 2020-03-17 | 25 comments

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