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1.		Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says (npr.org)
		1243 points by tmlee on March 11, 2020 \| 1038 comments
2.		Show HN: Fraidycat (fraidyc.at)
		807 points by kickscondor on March 11, 2020 \| 150 comments
3.		Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evidence is now in (nytimes.com)
		416 points by pseudolus on March 11, 2020 \| 341 comments
4.		Show HN: Visual SQL (chartio.com)
		512 points by thingsilearned on March 11, 2020 \| 126 comments
5.		How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (danluu.com)
		617 points by jgrahamc on March 11, 2020 \| 94 comments
6.		Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard (nytimes.com)
		404 points by lxm on March 10, 2020 \| 477 comments
7.		Don't Touch Ya Face (donttouchyaface.com)
		476 points by dkobran on March 11, 2020 \| 138 comments
8.		Thinking Psycopg3 (varrazzo.com)
		268 points by fanf2 on March 11, 2020 \| 49 comments
9.		Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers (github.com/bottlerocket-os)
		280 points by ecliptik on March 10, 2020 \| 113 comments
10.		Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		251 points by ngaut on March 11, 2020 \| 59 comments
11.		Write a rapid prototype first (2007) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		203 points by throwaway3157 on March 11, 2020 \| 17 comments
12.		Show HN: Assembled – Scale great customer support (assembled.com)
		137 points by johnjwang on March 11, 2020 \| 15 comments
13.		Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch (arstechnica.com)
		250 points by vo2maxer on March 11, 2020 \| 96 comments
14.		AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation (github.com/taviso)
		473 points by phoe-krk on March 11, 2020 \| 191 comments
15.		San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people (thehill.com)
		388 points by maerF0x0 on March 11, 2020 \| 385 comments
16.		Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights (arstechnica.com)
		168 points by Bella-Xiang on March 11, 2020 \| 176 comments
17.		Jordan does not block, it throttles internet access (netzpolitik.org)
		133 points by ericdanielski on March 11, 2020 \| 48 comments
18.		Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking (fs.blog)
		167 points by imartin2k on March 10, 2020 \| 85 comments
19.		Misconfigured Circuit Breakers (shopify.com)
		178 points by rbanffy on March 11, 2020 \| 39 comments
20.		Zero Trust Information (stratechery.com)
		167 points by notlukesky on March 11, 2020 \| 23 comments
21.		TRRespass: Rowhammer against DDR4 (vusec.net)
		119 points by mdriley on March 10, 2020 \| 52 comments
22.		What we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic (wsj.com)
		123 points by jkuria on March 11, 2020 \| 105 comments
23.		PostmarketOS Project Direction 2020 (gitlab.com/postmarketos)
		88 points by ajr0 on March 11, 2020 \| 19 comments
24.		Differential Equations with Transformers: Deep Learning for Symbolic Math (medium.com/analytics-vidhya)
		145 points by liao1729 on March 11, 2020 \| 24 comments
25.		YC W20 Online Demo Day moved up due to investor interest (blog.ycombinator.com)
		90 points by coolswan on March 11, 2020 \| 37 comments
26.		The FAQ of comp.lang.prolog is maintained as a Prolog source file (metalevel.at)
		118 points by martinlaz on March 11, 2020 \| 66 comments
27.		Fast-Growing Remote Startups (freedomiseverything.com)
		218 points by warp on March 11, 2020 \| 64 comments
28.		Amazon battles counterfeit masks, $400 hand sanitizer amid virus panic (wsj.com)
		108 points by juokaz on March 11, 2020 \| 73 comments
29.		Fast function to parse strings into double (binary64) floating-point values (github.com/lemire)
		73 points by vitaut on March 10, 2020 \| 56 comments
30.		How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding (garrytan.com)
		195 points by garry on March 11, 2020 \| 82 comments
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