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| Stories from August 6, 2020 |
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| 1. | | Frances Allen has died (ibm.com) |
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892 points by ntumlin 8 months ago | hide | 101 comments |
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| 2. | | Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects (msn.com) |
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1194 points by Shivetya 8 months ago | hide | 469 comments |
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| 3. | | 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions (twitter.com/deletescape) |
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1062 points by phoe-krk 8 months ago | hide | 444 comments |
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| 4. | | Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0 (ycombinator.com) |
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635 points by tosh 8 months ago | hide | 65 comments |
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| 5. | | Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates (theverge.com) |
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621 points by virde 8 months ago | hide | 506 comments |
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| 6. | | A crash course on hacking satellites (nyan-sat.com) |
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420 points by PatrolX 8 months ago | hide | 62 comments |
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| 7. | | Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second (github.com/simdjson) |
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503 points by lorenzfx 8 months ago | hide | 151 comments |
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| 8. | | Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases |
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189 points by hichkaker 8 months ago | hide | 76 comments |
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| 9. | | The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories (github.com/nodejs) |
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356 points by flaque 8 months ago | hide | 199 comments |
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| 10. | | OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh (github.com/acidanthera) |
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342 points by reimertz 8 months ago | hide | 211 comments |
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| 11. | | Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected (github.com/hephaest0s) |
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385 points by berkas1 8 months ago | hide | 188 comments |
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| 12. | | Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org) |
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303 points by stmw 8 months ago | hide | 48 comments |
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| 13. | | Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles (illinois.edu) |
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266 points by doener 8 months ago | hide | 163 comments |
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| 14. | | A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy (bbc.com) |
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215 points by awk 8 months ago | hide | 94 comments |
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| 15. | | Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands (bnnbloomberg.ca) |
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213 points by finphil 8 months ago | hide | 268 comments |
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| 16. | | Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release (techcrunch.com) |
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351 points by prostoalex 8 months ago | hide | 428 comments |
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| 17. | | Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer (stripe.com) |
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199 points by simonebrunozzi 8 months ago | hide | 83 comments |
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| 18. | | Cluster of 295 Chrome extensions caught hijacking Google and Bing search results (zdnet.com) |
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204 points by LinuxBender 8 months ago | hide | 87 comments |
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| 19. | | NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography (nerf-w.github.io) |
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218 points by tambourine_man 8 months ago | hide | 124 comments |
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| 20. | | The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space (bbc.com) |
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148 points by palo3 8 months ago | hide | 70 comments |
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| 21. | | Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (2016) (statnews.com) |
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104 points by apsec112 8 months ago | hide | 66 comments |
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| 22. | | Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along (redfin.engineering) |
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193 points by dfabulich 8 months ago | hide | 147 comments |
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| 23. | | Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20) (supabase.io) |
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173 points by kiwicopple 8 months ago | hide | 50 comments |
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| 24. | | Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law (theverge.com) |
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242 points by MrWiffles 8 months ago | hide | 159 comments |
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| 25. | | Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (amazon.com) |
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126 points by joelg 8 months ago | hide | 19 comments |
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| 26. | | Surviving Django, if you care about databases (varrazzo.com) |
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172 points by pauloxnet 8 months ago | hide | 217 comments |
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| 27. | | Herbie: Automatically Improving Floating Point Accuracy (uwplse.org) |
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152 points by lelf 8 months ago | hide | 17 comments |
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| 28. | | Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool (github.com/profclems) |
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157 points by profclems 8 months ago | hide | 74 comments |
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| 29. | | Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets? |
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212 points by trevett 8 months ago | hide | 222 comments |
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| 30. | | Touch Typing on a Gamepad (darkshadow.io) |
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110 points by krisfris 8 months ago | hide | 57 comments |
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