top 50% 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

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

A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

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

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 276 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

Fastcore: A library that extends Python with new features

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

5 years ago

187 upvotes – 91 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

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

Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live

https://www.facebook.com/legal/music_guidelines

5 years ago

170 upvotes – 197 comments

Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/facebook-halts-oculus-quest-sales-in-germany-amid-privacy-concerns/

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 77 comments

What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]

https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 184 comments

Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376380

5 years ago

161 upvotes – 252 comments

Interview with Paul Graham

https://pullrequest.substack.com/p/pr-interviews-paul-graham

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 168 comments

The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/career-costs-working-from-home/615472/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 148 comments

Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/clojures-missing-piece.html

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 37 comments

Learning@home hivemind – train large neural networks across the internet

https://learning-at-home.github.io/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 38 comments

Rust testing or verifying: Why not both?

https://alastairreid.github.io/why-not-both/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 28 comments

The Oldest Cookbook in Korean

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-korean-cookbook

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 62 comments

Rocket Helicopter (2010)

https://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/RH-i.htm

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 103 comments

GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring

https://www.benfrederickson.com/github-wont-help-with-hiring/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 178 comments

Toilets in a Medieval Castle (2018)

https://www.ancient.eu/article/1239/toilets-in-a-medieval-castle/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 68 comments

Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/04/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-addendum-rice/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 53 comments

Scene bust triggered historic drop in ‘pirate’ releases

https://torrentfreak.com/scene-bust-triggered-historic-drop-in-pirate-releases-200904/

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 128 comments

Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contract award

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/jedi-why-we-will-continue-protest-politically-corrupted-contract-award/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 126 comments

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/comfortably-numb/

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 195 comments

Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-impostors-advantage/

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 24 comments

Upsert anti-pattern in SQL Server

https://sqlperformance.com/2020/09/locking/upsert-anti-pattern

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Single neuron neural network written in COBOL

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: AnyLeaf – PH Sensor for Microcontrollers

https://www.anyleaf.org/ph-module

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 58 comments

The Memory Area Network at the Heart of IBM’s Power10

https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/09/03/the-memory-area-network-at-the-heart-of-ibms-power10/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 1 comments

Pointers Are Complicated, Or: What's in a Byte? (2018)

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 50 comments

Islamic State: Giant library of group's online propaganda discovered

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54011034

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 58 comments

100 NLP Papers

https://github.com/mhagiwara/100-nlp-papers

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 20 comments

.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL

https://martendb.io/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom of information

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/515104-apple-publishes-human-rights-policy-commits-to-freedom-of-information

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 70 comments

Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics

http://nautil.us/blog/your-guide-to-the-many-meanings-of-quantum-mechanics

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

The HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add

http://www.righto.com/2020/09/inside-hp-nanoprocessor-high-speed.html

5 years ago

74 upvotes – 26 comments

Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once

https://restream.io/

5 years ago

71 upvotes – 26 comments
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