HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop (twitter.com)

2706 points by Miner49er on Jan 28, 2021 | 1643 comments

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WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app (arstechnica.com)

2254 points by erwinmatijsen on Jan 6, 2021 | 1148 comments

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Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle (musclewiki.com)

2019 points by punkspider on Jan 21, 2021 | 329 comments

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Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store (twitter.com)

2009 points by redsolver on Jan 29, 2021 | 940 comments

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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests (npr.org)

1986 points by fortran77 on Jan 6, 2021 | 2422 comments

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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (blog.twitter.com)

1961 points by minimaxir on Jan 8, 2021 | 1950 comments

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Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend (twitter.com)

1793 points by rbanffy on Jan 3, 2021 | 891 comments

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GitHub is fully available in Iran (github.blog)

1727 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 5, 2021 | 483 comments

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Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup (gomox.medium.com)

1714 points by gomox on Jan 16, 2021 | 543 comments

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A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize (theverge.com)

1643 points by virde on Jan 4, 2021 | 1344 comments

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My Experience at Apple (ex-apple-engineer.medium.com)

1602 points by limono on Jan 1, 2021 | 778 comments

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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies (blog.mozilla.org)

1569 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 26, 2021 | 760 comments

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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (jayfax.neocities.org)

1505 points by jfax on Jan 10, 2021 | 724 comments

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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing (elastic.co)

1461 points by buro9 on Jan 19, 2021 | 681 comments

15.

A half-hour to learn Rust (fasterthanli.me)

1444 points by selvan on Jan 2, 2021 | 330 comments

16.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (costplusdrugs.com)

1434 points by yawnxyz on Jan 27, 2021 | 807 comments

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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem (omar.website)

1400 points by thesephist on Jan 1, 2021 | 235 comments

18.

Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

1364 points by callmevlad on Jan 15, 2021 | 182 comments

19.

No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees (sahillavingia.com)

1329 points by sahillavingia on Jan 7, 2021 | 517 comments

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California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

1317 points by supernova87a on Jan 1, 2021 | 620 comments

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

1314 points by ke4qqq on Jan 21, 2021 | 935 comments

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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (surma.dev)

1290 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 4, 2021 | 200 comments

23.

What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (bti360.com)

1270 points by FauxDemure on Jan 6, 2021 | 354 comments

24.

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (openai.com)

1266 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 5, 2021 | 267 comments

25.

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

1245 points by g0xA52A2A on Jan 11, 2021 | 194 comments

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

1177 points by sschueller on Jan 28, 2021 | 523 comments

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IPFS Support in Brave (brave.com)

1170 points by alexrustic on Jan 19, 2021 | 433 comments

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CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs (technologyreview.com)