Hacker News on 20 August 2020

• New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others
• Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
• Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable
• Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
• The 212-story skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia
• Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
• The software industry is going through the “disposable plastic” crisis
• How Shopify reduced storefront response times with a rewrite
• Citibank's $900M Blunder
• The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago