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Top stories from the past month

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1.

We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood (reddit.com)

624 points by f430 2021-01-28 | 242 comments

2.

Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (www.aboutamazon.com)

582 points by marc__1 2021-02-02 | 132 comments

3.

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover: touch down confirmed (twitter.com)

430 points by tambourine_man 2021-02-18 | 74 comments

4.

Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours (play.google.com)

283 points by rvnx 2021-01-29 | 177 comments

5.

VideoLAN is 20 years old today (www.videolan.org)

275 points by jbk 2021-02-01 | 72 comments

6.

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood (www.yumpu.com)

272 points by po1nter 2021-01-28 | 123 comments

7.

Rust for Windows (github.com)

204 points by dsr12 2021-01-21 | 37 comments

8.

Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future (techcrunch.com)

203 points by Cookingboy 2021-02-08 | 154 comments

9.

Mark Cuban launches a transparent, low cost generic drug company (costplusdrugs.com)

193 points by yawnxyz 2021-01-27 | 80 comments

10.

Rust Foundation: Hello, World (foundation.rust-lang.org)

183 points by steveklabnik 2021-02-08 | 32 comments

11.

Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

183 points by crazypython 2021-01-25 | 21 comments

12.

Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf (twitter.com)

179 points by arkadiyt 2021-01-28 | 74 comments

13.

20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

174 points by IfOnlyYouKnew 2021-02-08 | 34 comments

14.

Yellen Accepted $700K Speaking Fees from Citadel; Will Not Recuse from Hearing (www.bloomberg.com)

163 points by disgrunt 2021-02-03 | 104 comments

15.

Citibank just got a $500M lesson in the importance of UI design (arstechnica.com)

154 points by danbr 2021-02-18 | 68 comments

16.

Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility (www.sec.gov)

151 points by TeMPOraL 2021-01-29 | 112 comments

17.

Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds (www.thetimes.co.uk)

151 points by elorant 2021-01-24 | 134 comments

18.

Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client (www.pidgin.im)

148 points by smusamashah 2021-01-22 | 73 comments

19.

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (bits.ashleyblewer.com)

142 points by gammarator 2021-01-26 | 45 comments

20.

FB testing screen to encourage users to accept active tracking (www.axios.com)

138 points by asimpletune 2021-02-01 | 53 comments

21.

Homebrew 3.0 (brew.sh)

128 points by blucell 2021-02-05 | 35 comments

22.

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy (www.reuters.com)

125 points by ttt0 2021-01-29 | 73 comments

23.

Leaving Mozilla (www.emilykager.com)

114 points by dmm 2021-02-11 | 81 comments

24.

Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders (www.starlink.com)

114 points by sf_rob 2021-02-18 | 58 comments

25.

WSB Went Private on Reddit (www.reddit.com)

113 points by vincentmarle 2021-01-27 | 36 comments

26.

Robinhood apparently selling people's shares ”for their own good“ (twitter.com)

110 points by amadeuspagel 2021-01-28 | 23 comments

27.

Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina (cbeci.org)

106 points by apples_oranges 2021-02-10 | 75 comments

28.

Chick Corea has died (chickcorea.com)

105 points by rock_artist 2021-02-12 | 15 comments

29.

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana (aws.amazon.com)

104 points by ke4qqq 2021-01-21 | 69 comments

30.

Google's Project Loon is shutting down (blog.x.company)

102 points by sarthakjshetty 2021-01-22 | 50 comments

31.

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked (twitter.com)

100 points by benhurmarcel 2021-02-08 | 13 comments

32.

Brad Cox, creator of Objective-C, has passed away (www.legacy.com)

95 points by carlosrg 2021-01-22 | 8 comments

33.

90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about slow internet (www.foxla.com)

93 points by us0r 2021-02-10 | 29 comments

34.

Myanmar military takes control of country after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi (www.bbc.com)

93 points by 7d7n 2021-02-01 | 24 comments

35.

Think Twice Before Abandoning Xorg – Wayland Breaks Everything (gist.github.com)

92 points by todsacerdoti 2021-02-02 | 78 comments

36.

ProtonMail, Tutanota urging EU to reconsider encryption rules (www.cyberscoop.com)

89 points by DyslexicAtheist 2021-01-28 | 13 comments

37.

Google Deletes Nearly 100k Negative Reviews of Robinhood App (www.theverge.com)

89 points by exabrial 2021-01-29 | 37 comments

38.

Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store (play.google.com)

88 points by sschueller 2021-01-28 | 27 comments

39.

Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (paygo.media)

88 points by mrowland 2021-02-17 | 47 comments

40.

UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers (www.bbc.co.uk)

87 points by BellLabradors 2021-02-19 | 36 comments

41.

How Robinhood Misled the Poor and Rewarded the Rich (themeasureofaplan.com)

85 points by iamspoilt 2021-02-01 | 48 comments

42.

I followed my dreams and got demoted to software developer (stackoverflow.blog)

84 points by TangerineDream 2021-02-08 | 50 comments

43.

Go 1.16 Release Notes (golang.org)

84 points by ra7 2021-02-16 | 22 comments

44.

Migrants to the US are up to 6 times more productive than migrants elsewhere (privpapers.ssrn.com)

82 points by elsewhen 2021-01-31 | 46 comments

45.

Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts (www.texastribune.org)

82 points by irtefa 2021-02-18 | 46 comments

46.

Scaleway announced Apple M1 instances (www.scaleway.com)

81 points by edouardb 2021-02-02 | 45 comments

47.

MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies (www.reuters.com)

81 points by ArtTimeInvestor 2021-02-11 | 56 comments

48.

High-flying Reddit stocks whipsaw as platforms like Robinhood curb trading (www.axios.com)

80 points by samizdis 2021-01-28 | 21 comments

49.

Programming for Cats – A book written specially for cats who want to program (programmingforcats.com)

80 points by tigerlilythecat 2021-02-06 | 13 comments

50.

Short Fat Engineers Are Under Valued (nested.substack.com)

78 points by atticusberg 2021-02-12 | 38 comments

51.

Google will provide fundings for rewriting popular open source projects in Rust (security.googleblog.com)

78 points by littlestymaar 2021-02-18 | 11 comments

52.

You cannot contact Google Cloud support team if you are locked out your account (cloud.google.com)

77 points by themihai 2021-02-20 | 6 comments

53.

Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down (github.com)

77 points by high_derivative 2021-02-12 | 36 comments

54.

Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50% (www.tr0lly.com)

76 points by dgellow 2021-02-16 | 138 comments

55.

Toronto's Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani for $1.3B US (www.cbc.ca)

76 points by cf100clunk 2021-01-25 | 24 comments

56.

Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? (www.ianwelsh.net)

75 points by cribbles 2021-02-14 | 67 comments

57.

Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage (www.politifact.com)

75 points by BigBalli 2021-02-18 | 46 comments

58.

Firefox Relay (relay.firefox.com)

72 points by charlieirish 2021-01-25 | 9 comments

59.

Food Order Has Significant Impact on Glucose and Insulin Levels (2015) (news.weill.cornell.edu)

71 points by 1experience 2021-02-13 | 14 comments

60.

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019) (www.nationalgeographic.com)

71 points by smusamashah 2021-01-25 | 10 comments

61.

The Battle Inside Signal (www.platformer.news)

70 points by tchalla 2021-01-26 | 91 comments

62.

Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E (blog.google)

69 points by bhaile 2021-02-01 | 69 comments

63.

Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water (joshdata.me)

68 points by raldi 2021-02-20 | 16 comments

64.

Getting better at Linux with 10 mini-projects (carltheperson.com)

68 points by carltheperson 2021-02-02 | 3 comments

65.

We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow (catchjs.com)

67 points by simonpure 2021-01-26 | 56 comments

66.

GitHub Should Start an App Store (www.ankshilp.com)

66 points by quaintdev 2021-01-31 | 12 comments

67.

How the US Legalized Corruption (indica.medium.com)

66 points by redshirt2 2021-02-07 | 25 comments

68.

Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC (twitter.com)

65 points by forgingahead 2021-01-28 | 2 comments

69.

NASA's Perseverance Rover Landing Livestream (www.youtube.com)

65 points by malloreon 2021-02-18 | 9 comments

70.

SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president (www.reuters.com)

65 points by andrewinardeer 2021-02-15 | 24 comments

71.

Retiring Tucows Downloads (tucows.com)

64 points by andrewdutton 2021-01-21 | 24 comments

72.

The censorship of WallStreetBets needs to be a watershed moment for everyone (proprivacy.com)

64 points by zpeti 2021-01-29 | 21 comments

73.

SpaCy v3.0 Released (Python Natural Language Processing) (github.com)

64 points by syllogism 2021-02-01 | 6 comments

74.

Robinhood and Reddit protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress (www.reuters.com)

63 points by 1cvmask 2021-01-30 | 36 comments

75.

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)

62 points by ArtTimeInvestor 2021-02-16 | 9 comments

76.

FiOS service disruption in Northeast US (istheservicedown.com)

62 points by dak1 2021-01-26 | 1 comments

77.

John McWhorter: The Neoracists (www.persuasion.community)

61 points by paulpauper 2021-02-09 | 8 comments

78.

NRA Bankruptcy Will Lead to Unprecedented Disclosure of Org's Financial Habits (www.bloombergquint.com)

61 points by sahin 2021-02-07 | 6 comments

79.

iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian' (gizmodo.com)

60 points by thereare5lights 2021-02-05 | 11 comments

80.

Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers (denverite.com)

60 points by ryanwhitney 2021-02-05 | 22 comments

81.

Rust-Analyzer Architecture (github.com)

59 points by ibraheemdev 2021-02-04 | 5 comments

82.

Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (www.xissufotoday.space)

59 points by eternalban 2021-02-17 | 6 comments

83.

WallStreetBets Proves the System Is Rigged (bombthrower.com)

59 points by StuntPope 2021-01-28 | 15 comments

84.

Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' (www.bbc.co.uk)

59 points by dustinmoris 2021-01-25 | 32 comments

85.

Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain (swp.org.uk)

59 points by jimmy2020 2021-01-22 | 23 comments

86.

GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requests, packages (www.githubstatus.com)

58 points by Amorymeltzer 2021-02-08 | 14 comments

87.

How this Ends (avc.com)

58 points by simonebrunozzi 2021-02-17 | 60 comments

88.

Top Paying Companies by SWE Level (drive.google.com)

58 points by zuhayeer 2021-01-25 | 57 comments

89.

Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube (www.mintpressnews.com)

57 points by killittosaveit 2021-02-02 | 11 comments

90.

BTC Endgame (github.com)

57 points by jbegley 2021-02-19 | 23 comments

91.

Association Between Egg Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

57 points by undefined1 2021-02-04 | 77 comments

92.

Python Pattern Matching (github.com)

57 points by Sami_Lehtinen 2021-02-16 | 22 comments

93.

OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities (eng.lyft.com)

57 points by clarecorthell 2021-02-09 | 8 comments

94.

Revolut just stopped trading $GME and $AMC – similar to Robinhood (www.mrhack.io)

57 points by powerandr 2021-02-02 | 12 comments

95.

I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them (blog.jmdawson.co.uk)

57 points by stedaniels 2021-01-23 | 21 comments

96.

Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left (infosec-handbook.eu)

55 points by dsego 2021-01-24 | 21 comments

97.

From First Principles: Why Scala? (www.lihaoyi.com)

55 points by lihaoyi 2021-02-11 | 23 comments

98.

Haxe 4.2 (community.haxe.org)

55 points by Gama11 2021-02-09 | 5 comments

99.

New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped (arstechnica.com)

55 points by furcyd 2021-02-20 | 11 comments

100.

Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs (travelhead.medium.com)

54 points by travelhead 2021-02-10 | 11 comments

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