Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2021-01-30

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
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• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
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• Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
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• WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
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• Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
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• Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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• I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
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• IKEA Buys 11,000 Acres of U.S. Forest to Keep It from Being Developed
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• Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
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• GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
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• The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
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• Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
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• EU citizens’ rights are under threat from anti-encryption proposals
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• Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
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• We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
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• Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
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• Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
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• Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
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• Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
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