top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-08-06

Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/germany-plans-to-dim-lights-at-night-to-save-insects/ar-BB17BlkR

5 years ago

1194 upvotes – 469 comments

20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

https://twitter.com/deletescape/status/1291405688204402689

5 years ago

1062 upvotes – 444 comments

Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

https://www.ycombinator.com/library

5 years ago

635 upvotes – 65 comments

Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

5 years ago

621 upvotes – 506 comments

Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

5 years ago

503 upvotes – 151 comments

A crash course on hacking satellites

https://nyan-sat.com/chapter0.html

5 years ago

420 upvotes – 62 comments

Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected

https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill

5 years ago

385 upvotes – 188 comments

Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/google-discontinues-the-pixel-4-nine-months-after-release/

5 years ago

351 upvotes – 428 comments

OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg

5 years ago

342 upvotes – 211 comments

First Impressions of Rust

https://john-millikin.com/first-impressions-of-rust

5 years ago

274 upvotes – 188 comments
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