top 50% 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

Making our new homepage fast and performant

https://github.blog/2021-01-29-making-githubs-new-homepage-fast-and-performant/

5 years ago

257 upvotes – 136 comments

Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7bh1m/not_sure_if_anyone_posted_this_here_but_yikes/

5 years ago

251 upvotes – 87 comments

Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store

5 years ago

244 upvotes – 1 comments

Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output

https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-hdr-10bit-billion-colors/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 200 comments

Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-app-store-2021-1

5 years ago

228 upvotes – 255 comments

Ask HN: Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25962178

5 years ago

226 upvotes – 181 comments

Shorting and Indian capital markets

https://zerodha.com/z-connect/trending/shorting-and-indian-capital-markets

5 years ago

225 upvotes – 125 comments

Europe's Vaccine Disaster

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-vaccine-disaster-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-seeking-to-duck-responsibility-a-1197547d-6219-4438-9d69-b76e64701802

5 years ago

208 upvotes – 418 comments

AstraZeneca/EU contract

https://fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/8409-apa_-_astrazeneca/

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 356 comments

It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/false-confessions-police-interrogation.html

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 188 comments

Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effective in global trial

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine-trial-1.5893009

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 263 comments

A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for the Dyatlov Incident

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2021/01/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov/

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 54 comments

Baking with machine learning (2020)

https://sararobinson.dev/2020/04/30/baking-machine-learning.html

5 years ago

173 upvotes – 54 comments

Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/visual-mode.org

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)

https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/05/turbo-pascal-a-great-choice-for-programming-under-cpm/

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 115 comments

Sci-Founder Fellowship: Helping scientists to start companies

http://sci-founder.com

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 64 comments

1938 vs. 1940 (2018)

https://pecaquet.com/2018/10/08/1938-vs-1940/

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 73 comments

Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/samples/PixelShaders

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 54 comments

Göbekli Tepe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 59 comments

'Sea Prison': Covid-19 has left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/959626340/-sea-prison-covid-19-has-left-hundreds-of-thousands-of-seafarers-stranded

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 55 comments

Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8418916/three-dimensional-model-of-electricity-consumption-in-manchester-chart-graphic-document

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 31 comments

A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 80 comments

Global real interest rates and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311–2018 (2020)

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-centuries-of-global-real-interest-rates-r-g-and-the-suprasecular-decline-1311-2018

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 172 comments

What's New in PHP 8.1

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-81

5 years ago

133 upvotes – 108 comments

Brandolini's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 59 comments

C-for-Metal: High Performance SIMD Programming on Intel GPUs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11049

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 49 comments

The censorship of WallStreetBets needs to be a watershed moment for everyone

https://proprivacy.com/privacy-news/wallstreetbets-censorship-watershed

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 73 comments

Unix Programmer's Manual, First Edition (1971)

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 16 comments

An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf]

https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 21 comments

Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

https://www.embedded.com/cuffless-device-delivers-clinically-accurate-blood-pressure-measurements/

5 years ago

116 upvotes – 73 comments

Robinhood’s plan to “democratize finance” hit a GameStop-shaped speed bump

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/robinhoods-plan-to-democratize-finance-hit-a-gamestop-shaped-speed-bump/

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 76 comments

Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews

https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-reportedly-scraps-thousands-of-negative-robinhood-reviews

5 years ago

108 upvotes – 81 comments

Robinhood is still severely limiting trading

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/robinhood-is-still-severely-limiting-trading-gamestop-holders-can-only-buy-one-additional-share.html

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/29/cern_ohl_approved/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Facebook is banning leftwing users like me

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/29/facebook-banned-me-because-i-am-leftwing-i-am-not-the-only-one

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 170 comments

The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harvard Astronomer

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/01/28/the-uncensored-guide-to-oumuamua-aliens-and-that-harvard-astronomer/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 121 comments

Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-lightweight-roll-to-roll-loudspeaker-paper.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 31 comments

Quantquake: 2020 and the Revenge Against the Nerds

https://rhsfinancial.com/2021/01/11/quantquake-2020-and-the-revenge-against-the-nerds/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 23 comments

Sudo buffer overflow explained, and how to patch (WSL and Linux) [video]

https://github.com/mbcrump/CVE-2021-3156/blob/main/README.md

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 37 comments

YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries

https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 41 comments
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