top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-27

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

https://costplusdrugs.com/

5 years ago

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-27/gamestop-short-squeeze-is-rage-against-the-financial-machine

5 years ago

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/27/22253251/discord-bans-the-r-wallstreetbets-server

5 years ago

IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from being developed

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ikea-buys-forest-in-georgia/?

5 years ago

Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55826238

5 years ago

My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR

https://www.bannerbear.com/journey-to-10k-mrr/

5 years ago

WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard

https://web.dev/webrtc-standard-announcement/

5 years ago

Automating my job with GPT-3

https://blog.seekwell.io/gpt3

5 years ago

Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access

https://github.com/berty/berty

5 years ago

OO in Python is mostly pointless

https://leontrolski.github.io/mostly-pointless.html

5 years ago

U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/u-s-suffers-sharpest-rise-in-poverty-rate-in-more-than-50-years

5 years ago

Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/009000c

5 years ago

Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust

https://hbr.org/2021/01/how-teslas-charging-stations-left-other-manufacturers-in-the-dust

5 years ago

OpenWifiPass – Open-Source Implementation of Apple's Wi-Fi Password Sharing

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openwifipass

5 years ago

Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)

https://www.simplethread.com/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-build-software/

5 years ago

Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733320302481

5 years ago

Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-status-coup

5 years ago

Vue Native (2018)

https://vue-native.io/

5 years ago

Machine learning saves us $1.7M a year on document previews

https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/cannes--how-ml-saves-us--1-7m-a-year-on-document-previews

5 years ago

Show HN: My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second

http://vnav.io

5 years ago

Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/you-dont-need-another-mooc/

5 years ago

Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/27/gitlab_removes_starter_tier/

5 years ago

Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html

5 years ago

Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [audio]

https://overcast.fm/+fn2WSlrs4/11:00

5 years ago

CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython

5 years ago

Personium – personal data store server

https://personium.io/

5 years ago

Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (2019)

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/samsung-q60r-smart-tv-opening-up-the-samsung-q60-series-smart-tv/

5 years ago

Data fetching on the web still sucks

https://performancejs.com/post/hde6a90/Data-Fetching-on-the-Web-Still-Sucks

5 years ago

The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans

https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/

5 years ago

AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16455/amd-reports-q4fy-2020-earnings-record-revenues-repeat

5 years ago

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested

https://www.anandtech.com/print/16446/amd-ryzen-9-5980hs-cezanne-review-ryzen-5000-mobile-tested

5 years ago

Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia

https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/peat-fires-continue-to-burn-at-air-temperature-of-50c-in-northeastern-yakutia/

5 years ago

Fix Terminals

http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/

5 years ago

Visual Tcl

http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/?x=screen

5 years ago

WSB Went Private on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/

5 years ago

Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928641

5 years ago

Crony Beliefs

https://meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/

5 years ago

Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown

https://crate.io/a/cratedb-doubling-down-on-permissive-licensing-and-the-elasticsearch-lockdown/

5 years ago

Twitter improves API usage for researchers

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2021/enabling-the-future-of-academic-research-with-the-twitter-api.html

5 years ago

How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop

https://www.theverge.com/22251427/reddit-gamestop-stock-short-wallstreetbets-robinhood-wall-street

5 years ago

Frugal Web Browser: A Design Experiment

https://frugalweb.xyz/

5 years ago

GameStop Opened at $300+ Today

https://imgur.com/gallery/JBejsIL

5 years ago

Robinhood, Trading 212 and others go down amid AMC and GameStop stock frenzy

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/robinhood-trading-212-others-down-151742901.html

5 years ago

Love and Death: “Quality of life” calculations leave out much that matters

https://hedgehogreview.com/blog/thr/posts/love-and-death

5 years ago

One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day

https://www.fastcompany.com/90597677/report-one-third-of-tech-workers-admit-to-working-only-3-4-hours-a-day

5 years ago

If memristors act like neurons, put them in neural networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/memristor-random

5 years ago