top 50% 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

5 years ago

884 upvotes – 202 comments

Moving from YouTube to PeerTube

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

5 years ago

738 upvotes – 451 comments

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/

5 years ago

701 upvotes – 429 comments

Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

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

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 1078 comments

The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

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

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 114 comments

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

5 years ago

424 upvotes – 649 comments

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

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

5 years ago

360 upvotes – 285 comments

How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

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

5 years ago

350 upvotes – 73 comments

Citibank's $900M Blunder

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

5 years ago

348 upvotes – 292 comments

The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

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

5 years ago

324 upvotes – 136 comments

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

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 184 comments

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

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

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 110 comments

Gmail and Google Drive Outage

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

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 84 comments

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

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

5 years ago

238 upvotes – 271 comments

Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups

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

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 74 comments

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

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 132 comments

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/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 49 comments

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/

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 87 comments

Foiling Electric Boat

https://candelaspeedboat.com/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 145 comments

The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

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

5 years ago

189 upvotes – 120 comments

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

5 years ago

181 upvotes – 191 comments

Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go

https://analysis-tools.dev

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 57 comments

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

5 years ago

167 upvotes – 111 comments

Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats

https://jamesyu.org/singular/

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 103 comments

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

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 109 comments

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

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 64 comments

Parsing S-expressions in C (2019)

https://benpaulhanna.com/writing-a-game-in-c-parsing-s-expressions.html

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 98 comments

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/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 24 comments

KeePassXC 2.6.1

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-08-19-2.6.1-released/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window

https://sayless.email/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 57 comments

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

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 96 comments

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/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 329 comments

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

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 3 comments

TypeScript 4.0

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-0/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 42 comments

Who to ignore – bullshit filters

https://ernest.oppet.it/2020/08/14/who-to-ignore/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 73 comments

Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-bounce-simulations-challenge-the-big-bang-20200804/

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 162 comments

Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224355

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 42 comments

Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D

https://pingfrommorocco.blogspot.com/2020/08/porting-golang-and-rust-cli-tool-to-d.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data

https://twitter.com/ForestsWar

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 34 comments

The Elena Programming Language

https://elena-lang.github.io/

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 60 comments

Notes from a Flat Earth Conference

https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/notes-from-a-flat-earth-conference

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 166 comments

Plan the Sprint, Not the Project

https://critter.blog/2020/08/20/plan-the-sprint-not-the-project/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 119 comments

Antibody tests show what parts of NYC were hit hardest

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/nyregion/new-york-city-antibody-test.html

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 66 comments

California bullet train contractors botched bridge project

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-10/california-bullet-train-bridge-snafu

5 years ago

87 upvotes – 120 comments

Reckoning with Our Mistakes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reckoning-with-our-mistakes/

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

Malaria No More

http://malarianomore.org

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 101 comments

Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml

https://blog.darklang.com/first-thoughts-on-rust-vs-ocaml/

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 45 comments

How to make a bee hotel [pdf]

https://www.foxleas.com/uploads/files/Bee%20Hotel%20page%20V4%20Nov%202015.pdf

5 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf]

https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/manuals/COHERENT-4.2.pdf

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 39 comments

Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-search-settles-90-year-old-math-problem-20200819/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224993

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 184 comments

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

5 years ago

75 upvotes – 75 comments

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 years ago

73 upvotes – 158 comments

Analyzing Python Code with Python

https://rotemtam.com/2020/08/13/python-ast/

5 years ago

73 upvotes – 5 comments

Former Uber Security Chief Charged with Concealing Hack

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/technology/joe-sullivan-uber-charged-hack.html

5 years ago

72 upvotes – 31 comments

The Native-American Origins of Gumbo

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/native-american-gumbo

5 years ago

67 upvotes – 44 comments

Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (2014)

https://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

S&P 500 Return Attribution: Its 1% economy

https://www.putnam.com/advisor/content/perspectives/7816

5 years ago

66 upvotes – 58 comments

Magnetoplasma drive could make Mars transit take 39 days?

https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-08-19-Issue-78/#magnetoplasma-to-mars-in-39-days

5 years ago

65 upvotes – 88 comments
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