top 20 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

The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-suspected-poisoning-of-alexey-navalny-putins-most-prominent-adversary

6 years ago

Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24228826

6 years ago

Gmail and Google Drive Outage

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

6 years ago

Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1296382880030044160

6 years ago

Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups

https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-mistakes

6 years ago

Former Uber executive charged with paying 'hush money' to conceal breach

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904113981/former-uber-executive-charged-with-paying-hush-money-to-conceal-massive-breach

6 years ago

Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer

https://ezh.es/blog/2020/08/the-confused-mailman-sending-spf-and-dmarc-passing-mail-as-any-gmail-or-g-suite-customer/

6 years ago

Assange, Manning and Snowden Nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

https://defend.wikileaks.org/2020/02/06/julian-assange-chelsea-manning-and-edward-snowden-nominated-for-the-2020-nobel-peace-prize/

6 years ago

Foiling Electric Boat

https://candelaspeedboat.com/

6 years ago

The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-kubernetes-ack/

6 years ago