top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-08-20

New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765

6 years ago

Moving from YouTube to PeerTube

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/moving-from-youtube-to-peertube/

6 years ago

Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/20/lightroom-app-update-wipes-users-photos-and-presets-adobe-says-they-are-not-recoverable/

6 years ago

Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/ca-operations-update

6 years ago

The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

https://twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305262144364544

6 years ago

Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21377841/uber-lyft-california-judge-block-emergency-stay-employees

6 years ago

The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis

https://lwn.net/Articles/829123/

6 years ago

How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/how-shopify-reduced-storefront-response-times-rewrite

6 years ago

Citibank's $900M Blunder

https://finshots.in/archive/citibank-billion-dollar-blunder/

6 years ago

The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sudan-land-kush-meroe-ancient-civilization-overlooked-180975498/

6 years ago