884
202
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
738
451
Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/moving-from-youtube-to-peertube/
701
429
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/
534
1078
Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/ca-operations-update
437
114
The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia
https://twitter.com/liamosaur/status/1296305262144364544
424
649
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
360
285
The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
https://lwn.net/Articles/829123/
350
73
How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/how-shopify-reduced-storefront-response-times-rewrite
348
292
Citibank's $900M Blunder
https://finshots.in/archive/citibank-billion-dollar-blunder/
324
136
The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sudan-land-kush-meroe-ancient-civilization-overlooked-180975498/
318
184
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
264
110
Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24228826
244
84
Gmail and Google Drive Outage
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
238
271
Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1296382880030044160
230
74
Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups
https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-mistakes
223
132
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
213
49
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/
206
87
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/
194
145
Foiling Electric Boat
https://candelaspeedboat.com/
189
120
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-kubernetes-ack/
181
191
Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/wirecard-jan-marsalek-soll-wirtschaftspruefer-ey-mit-schauspielern-getaeuscht-haben-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172590382
175
57
Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go
https://analysis-tools.dev
167
111
Satellite warfare: An arms race is brewing in orbit
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/08/15/an-arms-race-is-brewing-in-orbit
161
103
Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats
https://jamesyu.org/singular/
158
109
Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs
https://medium.com/@felipepepe/roblox-is-a-mud-the-history-of-virtual-worlds-muds-mmorpgs-12e41c4cb9b
151
64
The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make
http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/the-universe-has-made-almost-all-the-stars-it-will-ever-make
147
98
Parsing S-expressions in C (2019)
https://benpaulhanna.com/writing-a-game-in-c-parsing-s-expressions.html
146
24
Breaking Samsung Firmware, or Turning Your S8/S9/S10 into a DIY “Proxmark”
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/breaking-samsung-firmware-or-turning-your-s8-s9-s10-into-a-diy-proxmark/
144
117
KeePassXC 2.6.1
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-08-19-2.6.1-released/
135
Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window
https://sayless.email/
133
96
Madhya Pradesh man cycles 105km to ferry son to Class X exam centre
https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/08/19/madhya-pradesh-man-cycles-105km-to-ferry-son-to-class-x-exam-centre.html
131
329
Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers
https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/08/fortnites-battle-with-apple-and-google-could-have-an-impact-on-news-publishers-too/
129
3
Former Chief Security Officer for Uber Charged with Obstruction of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-chief-security-officer-uber-charged-obstruction-justice
128
42
TypeScript 4.0
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-0/
127
Who to ignore – bullshit filters
https://ernest.oppet.it/2020/08/14/who-to-ignore/
162
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang
https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-bounce-simulations-challenge-the-big-bang-20200804/
125
Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224355
55
Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
https://pingfrommorocco.blogspot.com/2020/08/porting-golang-and-rust-cli-tool-to-d.html
101
34
Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data
https://twitter.com/ForestsWar
91
60
The Elena Programming Language
https://elena-lang.github.io/
166
Notes from a Flat Earth Conference
https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/notes-from-a-flat-earth-conference
89
119
Plan the Sprint, Not the Project
https://critter.blog/2020/08/20/plan-the-sprint-not-the-project/
88
66
Antibody tests show what parts of NYC were hit hardest
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/nyregion/new-york-city-antibody-test.html
California bullet train contractors botched bridge project
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-10/california-bullet-train-bridge-snafu
85
41
Reckoning with Our Mistakes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reckoning-with-our-mistakes/
Malaria No More
http://malarianomore.org
45
Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml
https://blog.darklang.com/first-thoughts-on-rust-vs-ocaml/
82
10
How to make a bee hotel [pdf]
https://www.foxleas.com/uploads/files/Bee%20Hotel%20page%20V4%20Nov%202015.pdf
81
39
Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf]
https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/manuals/COHERENT-4.2.pdf
19
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-search-settles-90-year-old-math-problem-20200819/
76
Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224993
75
IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
https://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/252487632/IBM-Z-mainframes-revived-by-Red-Hat-AI-and-security
Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/20/21376957/reddit-hate-speech-content-policies-subreddit-bans-reduction
5
Analyzing Python Code with Python
https://rotemtam.com/2020/08/13/python-ast/
72
31
Former Uber Security Chief Charged with Concealing Hack
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/technology/joe-sullivan-uber-charged-hack.html
67
44
The Native-American Origins of Gumbo
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/native-american-gumbo
18
Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)
https://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt
58
S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy
https://www.putnam.com/advisor/content/perspectives/7816
65
Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-08-19-Issue-78/#magnetoplasma-to-mars-in-39-days
