top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-01-28

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

https://twitter.com/KHOUStephanie/status/1354781130021609478

5 years ago

2706 upvotes – 1643 comments

Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android&showAllReviews=true

5 years ago

1177 upvotes – 523 comments

We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6yrs3/we_are_preparing_a_class_action_lawsuit_against/

5 years ago

982 upvotes – 443 comments

Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/robinhood-is-said-to-draw-on-credit-lines-from-banks-amid-tumult

5 years ago

735 upvotes – 465 comments

EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals

https://protonmail.com/blog/joint-statement-eu-encryption/

5 years ago

698 upvotes – 148 comments

Open-source, not open-contribution

https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream#open-source-not-open-contribution

5 years ago

661 upvotes – 321 comments

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

5 years ago

646 upvotes – 269 comments

Losing faith in UX

https://creativegood.com/blog/21/losing-faith-in-ux.html

5 years ago

576 upvotes – 321 comments

Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-7aj1ocjhe765vvlln8qqbuhto/

5 years ago

482 upvotes – 208 comments

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65257553/1-complaint

5 years ago

460 upvotes – 542 comments

Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock

https://www.ign.com/articles/robinhood-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-after-halting-gamestop-stock

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 2 comments

Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf

https://twitter.com/555sunny/status/1354854993946406917

5 years ago

450 upvotes – 297 comments

Coinbase announces proposed direct listing

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-announces-proposed-direct-listing-3a52c4298ccc

5 years ago

446 upvotes – 213 comments

Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/parents-income-not-smarts-key-to-entrepreneurship-study-657058

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 290 comments

High Short Interest Stocks

https://www.highshortinterest.com/all/

5 years ago

427 upvotes – 279 comments

JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

https://jitsi.org/blog/jaas-the-team-that-builds-jitsi-can-now-also-run-it-for-you/

5 years ago

410 upvotes – 117 comments

WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore

https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/rwallstreetbets-vs-wallstreet-its

5 years ago

344 upvotes – 458 comments

Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

https://nasa.github.io/openmct/

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)

https://www.loudreader.com

5 years ago

297 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard

https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 71 comments

OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

https://jcs.org/2021/01/27/x1nano

5 years ago

249 upvotes – 164 comments

PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)

https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 103 comments

AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to block purchasers of GME

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354830697459032066

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 65 comments

Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018)

https://www.equities.com/news/robinhood-is-said-to-get-40-revenue-from-hft-firms-like-citadel

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 69 comments

Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters

https://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl/status/1354535622069919748

5 years ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption rules

https://www.cyberscoop.com/encryption-europe-tutanota-protonmail-threema-tresorit/

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 78 comments

Qutebrowser 2.0

https://lists.schokokeks.org/pipermail/qutebrowser-announce/2021-January/000090.html

5 years ago

209 upvotes – 128 comments

Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement

https://www.cnet.com/news/reddits-gamestop-stock-surge-is-a-terrifying-new-occupy-wall-street

5 years ago

205 upvotes – 274 comments

What am I running inside my bash? (2014)

https://www.thanassis.space/bashheimer.html

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 38 comments

Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/cracks-are-showing-enterprise-open-sources-foundations

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 117 comments

How to Be Clear

https://gilest.org/2021/how-to-be-clear/

5 years ago

195 upvotes – 56 comments

Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts

https://www.shinkim.io/posts/shift-to-remote-work-based-on-7-000-hacker-news-job-posts

5 years ago

191 upvotes – 79 comments

Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC

https://twitter.com/RobinhoodApp/status/1354805613566410756

5 years ago

183 upvotes – 45 comments

Pricing a SaaS product (2019)

https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/don-t-charge-a-month-for-your-product/

5 years ago

178 upvotes – 49 comments

Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-Time Rendering with Implicit 3D Surfaces

https://nv-tlabs.github.io/nglod/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 38 comments

A recent poll of employees who are working remotely

https://today.yougov.com/topics/economy/articles-reports/2021/01/19/remote-employees-work-from-home-poll

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 181 comments

Citadel allegedly reloaded Shorts on GME before Robinhood put restrictions

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 31 comments

JackTrip WebRTC: high quality, uncompressed, low-delay audio streaming

https://github.com/JackTrip-webrtc/JackTrip-webrtc

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 36 comments

Robinhood begins auto-liquidating $GME shares bought on margin

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l75pa1/robinhood_is_selling_peoples_gamestop_shares/

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 1 comments

I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study

https://twitter.com/JimmyBernot/status/1354443833388503043

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 69 comments

Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2021/01/long-term-study-reveals-harm-regular-cannabis-use

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 159 comments

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York

https://twitter.com/ljmoynihan/status/1354836830169006081

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 32 comments

Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps

https://delitescere.medium.com/hotwire-html-over-the-wire-2c733487268c

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 56 comments

A framework that makes things worse on purpose

https://postmodernize.telnet.asia/

5 years ago

140 upvotes – 55 comments

Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019)

https://datascienceworkshops.com/blog/plotnine-grammar-of-graphics-for-python/

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 37 comments

Robinhood makes most of its money selling customer orders (2020)

https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/robinhood-makes-millions-selling-your-stock-trades-is-that-so-wrong/

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 1 comments

Adam Curtis Explains It All

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curtis-explains-it-all

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 77 comments

Robinhood apparently selling people's shares ”for their own good“

https://twitter.com/ArkhonDH/status/1354834763245359111

5 years ago

129 upvotes – 32 comments

Disorderfs: FUSE-based filesystem that introduces non-determinism into metadata

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/disorderfs

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 31 comments

Habitat 67, Montreal's 'failed dream'

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/13/habitat-67-montreal-expo-moshe-safdie-history-cities-50-buildings-day-35

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 49 comments

Security professionals often warn against Telegram

https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-whatsapp-settings/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 69 comments

Analyzing and breaking an externally encrypted HDD

https://syscall.eu/blog/2018/03/12/aigo_part1/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 15 comments

Robinhood’s Customers Are Hedge Funds Like Citadel, Its Users Are the Product

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpnz5/robinhoods-customers-are-hedge-funds-like-citadel-its-users-are-the-product

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 14 comments

Jack Ma Agrees to Shrink His Business Empire, Bowing to China Pressure

https://relayvibes.co/jack-ma-agrees-to-shrink-his-business-empire-bowing-to-china-pressure/

5 years ago

113 upvotes – 47 comments

Keeping Customers Informed Through Market Volatility

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28/keeping-customers-informed-through-market-volatility

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 79 comments

Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks

https://vivaldi.com/whats-new-in-vivaldi-3-6/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 115 comments

AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing

https://www.businessinsider.com/unacceptable-aoc-calls-out-robinhood-for-blocking-gamestop-purchase-2021-1

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 37 comments

A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (1959)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/06/06/a-corner-in-piggly-wiggly

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments

Ontology of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-vm-manager

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 15 comments

The Architecture of My Life

https://blog.nntn.nl/architecture-of-my-life-2021

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 16 comments

Mscsim – flight dynamics simulation software

https://github.com/marek-cel/mscsim

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 10 comments

Highest resolution photos ever taken of snowflakes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-are-highest-resolution-photos-ever-taken-snowflakes-180976710/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments
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