Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects — Frances Allen has died — and Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

Issue #122 — August 07, 2020

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Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects msn.com \| points: 761 \| comments: 352

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Frances Allen has died ibm.com \| points: 686 \| comments: 79

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Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second github.com \| points: 484 \| comments: 143

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Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates theverge.com \| points: 465 \| comments: 416

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Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after cdn.knightlab.com \| points: 382 \| comments: 216

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The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories github.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 191

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Usbkill – anti-forensic tool to halt computer when new USB device is connected github.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 154

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Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0 ycombinator.com \| points: 324 \| comments: 40

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Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release techcrunch.com \| points: 309 \| comments: 378

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Compiler Explorer godbolt.org \| points: 288 \| comments: 47

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OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh github.com \| points: 285 \| comments: 188

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Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles news.illinois.edu \| points: 231 \| comments: 140

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Arcosanti en.wikipedia.org \| points: 226 \| comments: 70

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A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy bbc.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 90

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Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law theverge.com \| points: 199 \| comments: 118

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Stripe Hires AWS’ Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer stripe.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 82

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A crash course on hacking satellites nyan-sat.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 30

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Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along redfin.engineering \| points: 179 \| comments: 133

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File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design go.googlesource.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 106

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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin bostonreview.net \| points: 165 \| comments: 114

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