1194
469
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
6 years ago
1062
444
20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions
https://twitter.com/deletescape/status/1291405688204402689
635
65
Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0
https://www.ycombinator.com/library
621
506
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
503
151
Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
420
62
A crash course on hacking satellites
https://nyan-sat.com/chapter0.html
385
188
Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected
https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
351
428
Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/06/google-discontinues-the-pixel-4-nine-months-after-release/
342
211
OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh
https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg
274
First Impressions of Rust
https://john-millikin.com/first-impressions-of-rust
266
163
Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/326226550
242
159
Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357013/justice-department-net-neutrality-fcc-law-throttling-isps
218
124
NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography
https://nerf-w.github.io/
213
268
Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/busted-retailers-use-bankruptcy-to-break-leases-by-the-thousands-1.1476347
204
87
Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cluster-of-295-chrome-extensions-caught-hijacking-google-and-bing-search-results/
200
Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ancestry-m-a-blackstone-group-idUSKCN2512ES
189
76
Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071955
184
139
Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1291388433747685376
180
117
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin
https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-race/amy-moran-thomas-how-popular-medical-device-encodes-racial-bias
177
175
Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/science.abd3871