top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-09-04

Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/02/reddit-gets-its-app-to-50-million-play-store-downloads-mostly-by-making-the-mobile-web-experience-miserable/

5 years ago

710 upvotes – 609 comments

Winamp Skin Museum

https://skins.webamp.org/

5 years ago

694 upvotes – 264 comments

SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2

5 years ago

583 upvotes – 462 comments

Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392

5 years ago

363 upvotes – 157 comments

We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it

https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/

5 years ago

362 upvotes – 338 comments

Bullfrog After Populous

https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/bullfrog-after-populous/

5 years ago

321 upvotes – 163 comments

Snake in a QR Code

https://itsmattkc.com/etc/snakeqr/

5 years ago

318 upvotes – 82 comments

List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

https://devandgear.com/posts/the-ultimate-list-of-youtube-channels-to-boost-your-web-development-and-programming-skills/

5 years ago

298 upvotes – 93 comments

Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users

https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/costs-of-running-webapp/

5 years ago

289 upvotes – 257 comments

PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/04/picorio-linux-risc-v-sbc-is-an-open-source-alternative-to-raspberry-pi-board/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 154 comments

A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

https://user.eng.umd.edu/~blj/funny/requium.html

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 276 comments

FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona

https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1255585290380443648

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 193 comments

Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive

https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 99 comments

Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)

https://vyomtech.com/2013/12/17/libvirt_the_unsung_hero_of_cloud_computing.html

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 111 comments

Ask HN: What does performance management look like at your company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374347

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 162 comments

Massacring C Pointers (2018)

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 149 comments

The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/04/trump-and-stars-and-stripes-attacking-american-icon-column/5706859002/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 173 comments

Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features

https://fastpages.fast.ai/fastcore/

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 91 comments

Lessons from the Gnome Patent Troll Incident

https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/lessons-from-the-gnome-patent-troll-incident/

5 years ago

175 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/09/02/15-17382.pdf

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 9 comments
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