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Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells 580 by stu2b50 | 599 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 773 by redsolver | 416 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 618 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 942 by Miner49er | 690 comments on Hacker News.

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while 619 by icpmacdo | 487 comments on Hacker News.

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine 629 by tempsy | 695 comments on Hacker News.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML 631 by edent | 244 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 482 by Beggers1960 | 366 comments on Hacker News.

I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? 482 by ivank | 171 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) 497 by smusamashah | 125 comments on Hacker News.

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani 496 by cf100clunk | 661 comments on Hacker News.

Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats 538 by moneytoo | 280 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 557 by maydemir | 139 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 654 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 681 by goostavos | 452 comments on Hacker News.

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

Brad Cox has died 653 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 667 by ke4qqq | 558 comments on Hacker News.

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

Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? 637 by arthurcolle | 764 comments on Hacker News. Can be super esoteric or super generalized, I love it when I get them, or when I just learn something...Read more »

Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon 600 by sylvestre | 205 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 595 by davidfstr | 222 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? 546 by throwwfh | 428 comments on Hacker News. I'm no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I ...Read more »

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 619 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 575 by gomox | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Signal is having technical difficulties 533 by tonymet | 459 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 s...Read more »

Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login 544 by poxobloc | 344 comments on Hacker News. I remember I was using Google login to login to my Dropbox and in the last year or so D...Read more »

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” 842 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 760 by amadeuspagel | 1195 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 722 by ignoramous | 144 comments on Hacker News. "Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for righ...Read more »

70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers 648 by joiguru | 644 comments on Hacker News.

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time 636 by gbrown_ | 112 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 590 by erwinmatijsen | 336 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests 1102 by fortran77 | 933 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 596 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 910 by todsacerdoti | 303 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 747 by todsacerdoti | 110 comments on Hacker News.

USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment 709 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.