2009
940
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013
5 years ago
909
498
Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-trading-facebook-idUSKBN29X34P
707
564
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
641
462
Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/robinhood-fundraising.html
571
855
Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility
https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-market-volatility-2021-01-29
539
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
529
249
Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account
https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/transfer-stocks-out-of-your-robinhood-account/
528
79
A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-imessage-in-ios-14.html
497
207
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/
486
523
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
468
178
Factorio 1.1 stable
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-364
448
301
Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest
https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/dont-grow-d7f87faeaf56
388
164
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2008389118
371
71
Uniwidth Typefaces for Interface Design
https://uxdesign.cc/uniwidth-typefaces-for-interface-design-b6e8078dc0f7
341
322
Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/webappwithoutgoogling.html
152
Pony – High-Performance Safe Actor Programming
https://www.ponylang.io/discover/
305
77
PyO3: Rust Bindings for the Python Interpreter
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
304
155
Police Say They Use Facial Recognition Despite Bans
https://themarkup.org/news/2021/01/28/police-say-they-can-use-facial-recognition-despite-bans
271
73
Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040
https://twitter.com/johndmcmaster/status/1355092011829719046
268
117
Suck It, Wall Street
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/suck-it-wall-street
257
136
Making our new homepage fast and performant
https://github.blog/2021-01-29-making-githubs-new-homepage-fast-and-performant/
251
87
Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7bh1m/not_sure_if_anyone_posted_this_here_but_yikes/
244
1
Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store
241
200
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/
228
255
Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-app-store-2021-1
226
181
Ask HN: Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25962178
225
125
Shorting and Indian capital markets
https://zerodha.com/z-connect/trending/shorting-and-indian-capital-markets
208
418
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
199
356
AstraZeneca/EU contract
https://fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/8409-apa_-_astrazeneca/
198
188
It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/false-confessions-police-interrogation.html
186
263
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
185
54
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/
173
Baking with machine learning (2020)
https://sararobinson.dev/2020/04/30/baking-machine-learning.html
56
Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/visual-mode.org
150
115
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/
143
64
Sci-Founder Fellowship: Helping scientists to start companies
http://sci-founder.com
1938 vs. 1940 (2018)
https://pecaquet.com/2018/10/08/1938-vs-1940/
141
Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/samples/PixelShaders
139
59
Göbekli Tepe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
135
55
'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
31
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
80
A Day in the Life of Your Data [pdf]
https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf
134
172
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
133
108
What's New in PHP 8.1
https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-81
132
Brandolini's Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
126
49
C-for-Metal: High Performance SIMD Programming on Intel GPUs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11049
121
The censorship of WallStreetBets needs to be a watershed moment for everyone
https://proprivacy.com/privacy-news/wallstreetbets-censorship-watershed
119
16
Unix Programmer's Manual, First Edition (1971)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html
116
21
An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem [pdf]
https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20
Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements
https://www.embedded.com/cuffless-device-delivers-clinically-accurate-blood-pressure-measurements/
114
76
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/
81
Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews
https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-reportedly-scraps-thousands-of-negative-robinhood-reviews
103
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
A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/29/cern_ohl_approved/
102
170
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
96
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/
95
Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-lightweight-roll-to-roll-loudspeaker-paper.html
92
23
Quantquake: 2020 and the Revenge Against the Nerds
https://rhsfinancial.com/2021/01/11/quantquake-2020-and-the-revenge-against-the-nerds/
90
37
Sudo buffer overflow explained, and how to patch (WSL and Linux) [video]
https://github.com/mbcrump/CVE-2021-3156/blob/main/README.md
89
41
YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries
https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/
