top 50% 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

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

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 112 comments

Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)

https://supabase.io/blog/2020/08/05/supabase-auth

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 50 comments

Surviving Django, if you care about databases

https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/07/25/surviving-django/

5 years ago

172 upvotes – 217 comments

Nine-year-old bug in the Go standard library enables DoS

https://github.com/ethereum/public-attacknets/issues/12

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 30 comments

Epic Systems workers are organizing

https://www.tonemadison.com/articles/epic-workers-arent-just-mad-theyre-organizing

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 83 comments

Programming with RISC-V Vector Instructions

https://gms.tf/riscv-vector.html

5 years ago

162 upvotes – 35 comments

Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool

https://github.com/profclems/glab

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 74 comments

Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy

https://herbie.uwplse.org/

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 17 comments

Our World in Data: Suicide

https://ourworldindata.org/suicide

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 171 comments

Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/

5 years ago

142 upvotes – 72 comments

Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes

http://interlisp.org/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 24 comments

The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)

https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 61 comments

Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors

https://news.mit.edu/2020/why-shaving-dulls-razors-0806

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 123 comments

An Inside Look at CloudKitchens

https://superfood.substack.com/p/exclusive-an-inside-look-at-cloudkitchens

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 120 comments

Non-invasive nerve stimulation boosts learning of foreign language sounds: study

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-non-invasive-nerve-boosts-foreign-language.html

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 60 comments

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

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 56 comments

Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice

https://newatlas.com/medical/diluted-blood-plasma-reverse-aging-in-mice

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 63 comments

Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-ok.pdf

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 38 comments

Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33905/chryslers-radical-space-shuttle-design-was-50-years-ahead-of-its-time

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 66 comments

Why Confidential Computing Is a Game Changer

https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/why-confidential-computing-is-a-game-changer/a/d-id/1338510

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016)

https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/19/lab-mice-temperature/

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 66 comments

Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200708-the-albatrosses-who-catch-pirates-on-the-high-seas

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

MicroBlocks: Scratch and Smalltalk-inspired MCU VM for live embedded programming

http://microblocks.fun/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in Covid-19 Patients

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

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

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 38 comments

‘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/

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 62 comments

The fastest USB storage options for Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/fastest-usb-storage-options-raspberry-pi

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 11 comments

Georgia School Reopening Photo Even Worse Than It Appears

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-school-reopening-photo-paulding-county

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 130 comments
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