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New best story on Hacker News: CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
580 by donsupreme | 356 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

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


New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

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


New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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


New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult

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


New best story on Hacker News: Losing faith in UX

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


New best story on Hacker News: Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

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


New best story on Hacker News: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
793 by redsolver | 423 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals

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


New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
852 by sschueller | 351 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood

We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
794 by f430 | 359 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard

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


New best story on Hacker News: My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR

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


New best story on Hacker News: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
1014 by Miner49er | 716 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
627 by icpmacdo | 492 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
641 by tempsy | 719 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
563 by edent | 221 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
543 by yawnxyz | 326 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says

Social media damages teenagers' mental health, report says
521 by alexrustic | 249 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed

IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed
498 by Beggers1960 | 373 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?

I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
491 by ivank | 177 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
456 by smusamashah | 118 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
496 by cf100clunk | 665 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
540 by moneytoo | 281 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hacker News

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


New best story on Hacker News: PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space

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


New best story on Hacker News: Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium

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


New best story on Hacker News: I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them

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


New best story on Hacker News: Please don't say just hello in chat (2013)

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


New best story on Hacker News: WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
552 by pseudolus | 287 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen

Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
562 by maydemir | 145 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Pip has dropped support for Python 2

Pip has dropped support for Python 2
735 by groodt | 580 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain

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


New best story on Hacker News: Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time

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


New best story on Hacker News: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II

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


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Iconduck – 100k open source icons, downloadable and searchable

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


New best story on Hacker News: Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
687 by goostavos | 457 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
614 by ke4qqq | 528 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Rust for Windows

Rust for Windows
581 by dsr12 | 198 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
634 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
604 by sylvestre | 205 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

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


New best story on Hacker News: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
718 by punkspider | 167 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

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


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?

Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
560 by throwwfh | 432 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?

New best story on Hacker News: IPFS Support in Brave

IPFS Support in Brave
529 by alexrustic | 177 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
469 by livueta | 240 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting

What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
651 by danso | 192 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college

We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
519 by aminozuur | 378 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

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


New best story on Hacker News: BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass

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


New best story on Hacker News: ‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years

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


New best story on Hacker News: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
695 by buro9 | 355 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
619 by swyx | 296 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Signal is having technical difficulties

Signal is having technical difficulties
538 by tonymet | 460 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living
513 by callmevlad | 55 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 funded. We had high hopes about getting into YC for the winter batch, but were rejected since we only had a non-functional demo of a product and zero traction. On top of all that, my oldest daughter (3yo then) was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, requiring expensive surgery that didn’t get much help from our cheap “catastrophic” health insurance plan with an ultra-high deductible. Credit card cash advances became the way we were paying for rent and food. So with all this, we started contingency planning to try to get our old jobs back. As a last ditch effort, we sold two of our cars and pulled out what equity we had in them to buy a little more runway. Then we had to come to terms that we couldn’t actually build a full product in the time we had left, and decided that the best we could do was to create a demo or playground that could hint at what the future product could be – and hope for the best. In March of 2013, we finally finished that demo and put it up live. It’s still there: https://ift.tt/Ze9ljv Now came the time to get users. We were targeting mostly designers and non-technical folks – so we posted it on Digg (heh, remember those days?), Reddit, and several designer-centric forums. But none of those posts got any meaningful traction. We were at a loss. Then, with tempered expectations about how a visual development tool for designers would be received in the hacker community, we posted here to HN. The title was “Show HN: Webflow – design responsive websites visually” [1] and we crossed our fingers really hard at this last-ditch effort. What happened next was nothing short of life-changing. The post took off like wildfire, staying at #1 for the entire day. Incredible words of encouragement were all over the comments. Over 25,000 people signed up for our beta list. VentureBeat wrote a story about us that same day. Tons of people started talking about Webflow on Twitter, Reddit, etc as a result. This led to a ton of word of mouth and even more signups. This amazing traction helped us get into YC several months later, gave us momentum to raise some funding from some angel investors, and most importantly gave us the confidence that we were truly on to something that can be really valuable for the world. Since then, Webflow has grown to millions of users, over a hundred thousand customers, and over 200 team members. I still have to pinch myself when I see that Webflow has somehow become one of the top YC companies of all time. Out of our customers, tens of thousands use Webflow exclusively to make a living – to run an agency, build websites and light applications, create websites for clients, or for their own startups. Tons of YC startups (e.g. lattice.com, hellosign.com, many many more) now use Webflow to run their marketing. I’m 1000% convinced that if that HN post did not take off, we would have gone back to our jobs and that early Webflow demo would have been a mere mention on our resumes somewhere. Thousands of people wouldn’t be empowered to build for the web the way they can now. I can’t imagine what that alternate future would be like, and it hinged seemingly on just one submission to this community. So this is a very belated, but very huge THANK YOU to HN for being kind to a trio of co-founders who wanted to make something valuable for the world, and were at the end of their rope in many ways. You gave us confidence, hope, encouragement, and a lifeline that got us through the lows of building a startup. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! [1] https://ift.tt/160pvU0

New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
546 by poxobloc | 346 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
487 by rasengan | 645 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Aquafaba

Aquafaba
513 by david-given | 260 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub

Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
507 by amrrs | 301 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers
502 by winkywooster | 269 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
477 by jelliclesfarm | 385 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
583 by weare138 | 544 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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


New best story on Hacker News: Null

Null
564 by JNRowe | 138 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him
548 by totalZero | 303 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2

Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
534 by mortenjorck | 173 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source

WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
585 by uptown | 262 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
545 by pathompong | 268 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

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


New best story on Hacker News: If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room

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


New best story on Hacker News: Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

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


New best story on Hacker News: Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol

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


New best story on Hacker News: Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

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


New best story on Hacker News: Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”
831 by motiejus | 341 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice

Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
807 by decrypt | 310 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
609 by erwinmatijsen | 344 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
1155 by fortran77 | 989 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

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


New best story on Hacker News: Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project

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


New best story on Hacker News: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

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


New best story on Hacker News: GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

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


New best story on Hacker News: Slack is down

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


New best story on Hacker News: DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

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