top 20 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

Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/326226550

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 163 comments

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

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 159 comments

NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography

https://nerf-w.github.io/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 124 comments

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

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 268 comments

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/

5 years ago

204 upvotes – 87 comments

Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ancestry-m-a-blackstone-group-idUSKCN2512ES

5 years ago

200 upvotes – 151 comments

Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071955

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 76 comments

Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1291388433747685376

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 139 comments

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

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 117 comments

Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/science.abd3871

5 years ago

177 upvotes – 175 comments
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