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Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells 575 by stu2b50 | 597 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub Should Start an App Store 571 by quaintdev | 219 comments on Hacker News.

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs 571 by donsupreme | 350 comments on Hacker News.

Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility 562 by TeMPOraL | 847 comments on Hacker News.

Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors 629 by coloneltcb | 459 comments on Hacker News.

Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours 693 by rvnx | 560 comments on Hacker News.

Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult 727 by kypro | 464 comments on Hacker News.

Losing faith in UX 552 by duck | 313 comments on Hacker News.

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019) 638 by ege_erdogan | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store 761 by redsolver | 413 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy 664 by ttt0 | 340 comments on Hacker News.

EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals 640 by eddieoz | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store 801 by sschueller | 334 comments on Hacker News.

We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood 769 by f430 | 348 comments on Hacker News.

WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard 617 by kaycebasques | 88 comments on Hacker News.

My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR 629 by ronyfadel | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop 913 by Miner49er | 677 comments on Hacker News.

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit goes private 616 by icpmacdo | 482 comments on Hacker News.

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine 622 by tempsy | 691 comments on Hacker News.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML 602 by edent | 235 comments on Hacker News.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company 640 by yawnxyz | 402 comments on Hacker News.

Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says 614 by alexrustic | 274 comments on Hacker News.

IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed 572 by Beggers1960 | 410 comments on Hacker News.

I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? 473 by ivank | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox 85 472 by amake | 256 comments on Hacker News.

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus 453 by gammarator | 168 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies 635 by todsacerdoti | 353 comments on Hacker News.

Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia 473 by isof4ult | 278 comments on Hacker News.

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019) 494 by smusamashah | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani 496 by cf100clunk | 660 comments on Hacker News.

Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats 538 by moneytoo | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News 538 by crazypython | 82 comments on Hacker News.

PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space 536 by hbrundage | 109 comments on Hacker News.

Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium 415 by stsewd | 178 comments on Hacker News.

I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them 464 by stedaniels | 155 comments on Hacker News.

Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) 448 by talhof8 | 349 comments on Hacker News.

WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update 544 by pseudolus | 283 comments on Hacker News.

Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen 552 by maydemir | 137 comments on Hacker News.

Pip has dropped support for Python 2 734 by groodt | 576 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain 525 by jimmy2020 | 501 comments on Hacker News.

Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time 653 by rbanffy | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II 569 by dddddaviddddd | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable 512 by onassar | 74 comments on Hacker News.

Software engineering topics I changed my mind on 675 by goostavos | 450 comments on Hacker News.

Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client 664 by smusamashah | 443 comments on Hacker News.

Brad Cox has died 651 by carlosrg | 120 comments on Hacker News.

New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects 645 by rbanffy | 421 comments on Hacker News.

Still alive 644 by Lewton | 221 comments on Hacker News.

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana 663 by ke4qqq | 550 comments on Hacker News.

Rust for Windows 593 by dsr12 | 204 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? 631 by arthurcolle | 755 comments on Hacker News. Can be super esoteric or super generalized, I love it when I get them, or when I just learn something new.

Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon 599 by sylvestre | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster 574 by CoffeePython | 254 comments on Hacker News.

Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle 686 by punkspider | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App 585 by erohead | 334 comments on Hacker News.

I no longer trust The Great Suspender 588 by davidfstr | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys 601 by subins2000 | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook 570 by alexrustic | 784 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home? 541 by throwwfh | 426 comments on Hacker News. I'm no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic. Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?

IPFS Support in Brave 516 by alexrustic | 169 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si 463 by livueta | 237 comments on Hacker News.

What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting 650 by danso | 191 comments on Hacker News.

We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college 519 by aminozuur | 377 comments on Hacker News.

Context switching costs more than we give it credit for 581 by maddynator | 347 comments on Hacker News.

BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass 564 by rdpintqogeogsaa | 123 comments on Hacker News.

‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years 444 by akamoonknight | 209 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing 804 by buro9 | 401 comments on Hacker News.

I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea 652 by swyx | 308 comments on Hacker News.

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research 617 by walterclifford | 240 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free 590 by sieste | 224 comments on Hacker News.

HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know 568 by atg_abhishek | 333 comments on Hacker News.

Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup 557 by gomox | 209 comments on Hacker News.

Signal is having technical difficulties 528 by tonymet | 457 comments on Hacker News.

Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living 587 by callmevlad | 73 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN, I’m feeling a deep sense of gratitude this morning, and wanted to share it with you all. On this day in 2013, the Webflow co-founders were huddled around our usual desk that we claimed every early morning at the Hacker Dojo (a co-working space) in Mountain View, working like hell into the evenings to get something off the ground. We had quit our jobs about 6 months prior, and totally underestimated how long it would take to build even a beta. I had personally convinced my wife that we’d only have to be income-less for 3 months – the amount of savings we had in the bank – but that time had now doubled, and those savings were long gone. The Kickstarter campaign we had poured all of our savings into producing had fallen through, never even making it live because we hadn’t read the Terms of Service to learn that they didn’t allow SaaS subscriptions to be f

Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login 543 by poxobloc | 343 comments on Hacker News. I remember I was using Google login to login to my Dropbox and in the last year or so Dropbox started asking me to access my contacts in Google. I would always deny access and still manage to successfully login. Yesterday I tried the same but with no luck. I contacted Dropbox support and this is their reply: > I'm afraid that is not possible at the time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Interesting that they chose this route when users are getting more and more privacy-aware.

Aquafaba 512 by david-given | 258 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub 505 by amrrs | 299 comments on Hacker News.

We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers 495 by winkywooster | 262 comments on Hacker News.

Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner 475 by jelliclesfarm | 379 comments on Hacker News.

Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce 469 by champagnepapi | 652 comments on Hacker News.

Null 581 by JNRowe | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing' 561 by weare138 | 511 comments on Hacker News.

Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him 548 by totalZero | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2 565 by mortenjorck | 189 comments on Hacker News.

WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source 584 by uptown | 260 comments on Hacker News.

BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux 543 by pathompong | 267 comments on Hacker News.

Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block 596 by theBashShell | 270 comments on Hacker News.

If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room 741 by mcrittenden | 312 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018) 545 by z3t111 | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol 535 by circularfoyers | 209 comments on Hacker News.

Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app” 840 by motiejus | 346 comments on Hacker News.

Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice 799 by decrypt | 307 comments on Hacker News.

How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler 756 by amadeuspagel | 1186 comments on Hacker News.

Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ 694 by rasengan | 319 comments on Hacker News.

Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair 676 by janvdberg | 225 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Aaron Swartz died today, 8 years ago 718 by ignoramous | 143 comments on Hacker News. "Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep." - Tim Berners Lee. Thank you for everything, Aaron. -- Discussions at the time: 1. https://ift.tt/3qb7sZy 2. https://ift.tt/2Xs2T0G Blog post in 2016 by Noah, Aaron's brother: https://ift.tt/1OpuzFT

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time 703 by gbrown_ | 120 comments on Hacker News.

70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers 642 by joiguru | 632 comments on Hacker News.

The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours 610 by edward | 928 comments on Hacker News.

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app 578 by erwinmatijsen | 332 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests 1078 by fortran77 | 904 comments on Hacker News.

What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry 623 by FauxDemure | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project 627 by jackhalford | 387 comments on Hacker News.

Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business 608 by cpascal | 303 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran 595 by PhilipTrauner | 484 comments on Hacker News.

Slack is down 562 by oblio | 1 comments on Hacker News.

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text 913 by todsacerdoti | 179 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub is fully available in Iran 903 by todsacerdoti | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles 748 by _andychung | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering 745 by todsacerdoti | 110 comments on Hacker News.

USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment 707 by yuriko | 480 comments on Hacker News.

Slack is down 742 by gpmcadam | 638 comments on Hacker News.

Open Source Smartwatch 686 by sytelus | 242 comments on Hacker News.

School or Prison 699 by nickburlett | 471 comments on Hacker News.

Google workers announce plans to unionize 787 by virde | 482 comments on Hacker News.

ECC matters 729 by rajesh-s | 435 comments on Hacker News.

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend 775 by rbanffy | 342 comments on Hacker News.

How to overcome Phone Addiction 704 by Shred77 | 285 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera 708 by dheera | 91 comments on Hacker News.

A half-hour to learn Rust 716 by selvan | 152 comments on Hacker News.

EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology 670 by simonpd | 409 comments on Hacker News.

Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store 636 by giuliomagnifico | 388 comments on Hacker News.

My Experience at Apple 694 by limono | 290 comments on Hacker News.

California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement 603 by supernova87a | 317 comments on Hacker News.

TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem 583 by thesephist | 78 comments on Hacker News.

SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code 561 by accountinhn | 345 comments on Hacker News.