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Hacker News (20 Aug 2020)

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

    879 points • 201 comments • aug 20, 2020

  2. Moving from YouTube to PeerTube

    732 points • 442 comments • aug 20, 2020

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

    695 points • 421 comments • aug 20, 2020

  4. Rideshare operations are being suspended in California

    525 points • 1039 comments • aug 20, 2020

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

    422 points • 642 comments • aug 20, 2020

  6. The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia

    421 points • 108 comments • aug 20, 2020

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

    342 points • 270 comments • aug 20, 2020

  8. How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite

    342 points • 73 comments • aug 20, 2020

  9. Citibank's $900M Blunder

    338 points • 290 comments • aug 20, 2020

  10. The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

    314 points • 132 comments • aug 20, 2020