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
112
What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3569182/whats-wrong-with-intel-and-how-to-fix-it-former-principal-engineer-unloads.html
173
50
Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
https://supabase.io/blog/2020/08/05/supabase-auth
172
217
Surviving Django, if you care about databases
https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/07/25/surviving-django/
167
30
Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS
https://github.com/ethereum/public-attacknets/issues/12
164
83
Epic Systems workers are organizing
https://www.tonemadison.com/articles/epic-workers-arent-just-mad-theyre-organizing
162
35
Programming with RISC-V Vector Instructions
https://gms.tf/riscv-vector.html
157
74
Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool
https://github.com/profclems/glab
152
17
Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy
https://herbie.uwplse.org/
150
171
Our World in Data: Suicide
https://ourworldindata.org/suicide
142
72
Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/
140
24
Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes
http://interlisp.org/
137
61
The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)
https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/
136
123
Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
https://news.mit.edu/2020/why-shaving-dulls-razors-0806
133
120
An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
https://superfood.substack.com/p/exclusive-an-inside-look-at-cloudkitchens
132
60
Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-non-invasive-nerve-boosts-foreign-language.html
125
56
How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/keeping-google-meet-ahead-of-usage-demand-during-covid-19
63
Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
https://newatlas.com/medical/diluted-blood-plasma-reverse-aging-in-mice
38
Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]
https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-ok.pdf
110
66
Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design
https://www.thedrive.com/news/33905/chryslers-radical-space-shuttle-design-was-50-years-ahead-of-its-time
107
42
Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/why-confidential-computing-is-a-game-changer/a/d-id/1338510
104
Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/19/lab-mice-temperature/
86
36
Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200708-the-albatrosses-who-catch-pirates-on-the-high-seas
27
MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming
http://microblocks.fun/
44
Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext
75
Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point
https://onezero.medium.com/social-movements-are-pushing-google-sheets-to-the-breaking-point-28bb86b76043
‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives (2019)
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/05/a-partial-freedom-what-latvia-found-in-the-kgb-archives/
73
11
The fastest USB storage options for Raspberry Pi
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/fastest-usb-storage-options-raspberry-pi
130
Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-school-reopening-photo-paulding-county