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Hacker News (06 Aug 2020)

  1. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    1182 points • 461 comments • aug 06, 2020

  2. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

    1047 points • 433 comments • aug 06, 2020

  3. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    632 points • 65 comments • aug 06, 2020

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

    602 points • 500 comments • aug 06, 2020

  5. Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

    481 points • 141 comments • aug 06, 2020

  6. A crash course on hacking satellites

    412 points • 62 comments • aug 06, 2020

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

    376 points • 185 comments • aug 06, 2020

  8. Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release

    346 points • 405 comments • aug 06, 2020

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

    338 points • 209 comments • aug 06, 2020

  10. First Impressions of Rust

    268 points • 183 comments • aug 06, 2020