Basically it expires news items after some preset time (when the pie goes to 0 or when you hit the clear all button) and keeps adding new items in the queue. Catch is once the news item expires it's never shown again (tracked using local storage).
Only worked on it for a few hours then got bored. Still the site is up because it's running on serverless architecture so it aint costing me anything.
News organizations are optimized at bringing you the worst things that happened all over the world every day.
I'd prefer to keep HN for fun tech news.
Yeah - generating pageviews.
It's not just about YOU catching it and surviving it -- as we've seen, at peak outbreak, healthcare systems are going to be stretched thin. Routine healthcare suddenly becomes unavailable. As an example, someone who has a heart attack, or a serious car accident, who would usually survive given the appropriate level of treatment, will end up dying because that treatment simply isn't available.
And it might not be YOU who contributes to taking up healthcare resources, but it could be anyone YOU pass it on to.
So yeah, it is important to know what's going on, and have the seriousness of the situation rammed home. It's not like coronavirus is going to be affecting you for years to come, just this one. Sticking your head in the sand before the main wave of the crisis has even arrived is like avoiding news about an incoming hurricane.
I cannot emphasise enough caution - keep your eyes and ears open - and take affirmative steps - for everyone's sake.
While that's true on an abstract level there really are some important qualifiers for "latest advice".
I'm reading Wikipedia articles on the topic (they are updated very frequently) and try to consume content from authorities like the WHO and the Robert Koch Institute (I'm German). There are probably a lot more high quality sources but I feel reasonably informed.
I don't think there's any value in consuming a hundred reddit posts curated by engagement and stuffed with half-knowledge and karma-optimized fear comments.
This has been the best resource I had found in any language on the topic.
It's about 100 lines of JavaScript (a SPA?) that uses the official HN API. It's designed mostly for mobile use.
Since I read HN a lot, it keeps track (using localStorage) of which articles I've already seen, so I won't see them again.
Source is on GitHub. Feel free to fork, open a PR, etc.