top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-01-29

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013

5 years ago

2009 upvotes – 940 comments

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-facebook-idUSKBN29X34P

5 years ago

909 upvotes – 498 comments

Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android&showAllReviews=true&showAllReviews=true&1

5 years ago

707 upvotes – 564 comments

Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/robinhood-fundraising.html

5 years ago

641 upvotes – 462 comments

Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-market-volatility-2021-01-29

5 years ago

571 upvotes – 855 comments

Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254857/robinhood-gamestop-amc-shares-sold-surprised-users

5 years ago

539 upvotes – 707 comments

Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/transfer-stocks-out-of-your-robinhood-account/

5 years ago

529 upvotes – 249 comments

A Look at iMessage in iOS 14

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-imessage-in-ios-14.html

5 years ago

528 upvotes – 79 comments

Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation/

5 years ago

497 upvotes – 207 comments

u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania

https://www.wsj.com/articles/keith-gill-drove-the-gamestop-reddit-mania-he-talked-to-the-journal-11611931696

5 years ago

486 upvotes – 523 comments

Factorio 1.1 stable

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-364

5 years ago

468 upvotes – 178 comments

Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/dont-grow-d7f87faeaf56

5 years ago

448 upvotes – 301 comments

Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2008389118

5 years ago

388 upvotes – 164 comments

Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design

https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-b6e8078dc0f7

5 years ago

371 upvotes – 71 comments

Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/webappwithoutgoogling.html

5 years ago

341 upvotes – 322 comments

Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/

5 years ago

322 upvotes – 152 comments

PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter

https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

5 years ago

305 upvotes – 77 comments

Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans

https://themarkup.org/news/2021/01/28/police-say-they-can-use-facial-recognition-despite-bans

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 155 comments

Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040

https://twitter.com/johndmcmaster/status/1355092011829719046

5 years ago

271 upvotes – 73 comments

Suck It, Wall Street

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/suck-it-wall-street

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 117 comments
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