The stack on this story so far (newest ones at the bottom—if I've missed any, can you let me know at hn@ycombinator.com? this is sort of an experiment and we may eventually write software to support building lists like this collaboratively):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932598 ("Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [audio]" <-- you are here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25904779 ("How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon") 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25908084 ("The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets") 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680 ("r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage") 5 days ago

Edit: This story is breaking my stack metaphor, and a graph metaphor would be too complicated.

These are all significant threads with interesting articles that are different enough from each other that I don't think we'll merge them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25930214 ("GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine") <-- currently on the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25930488 ("How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25929443 ("Robinhood, Trading 212 and others go down amid AMC and GameStop stock frenzy")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25929110 ("GameStop Opened at $300+ Today") - not an interesting article but the thread is better

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926953 ("The GameStop Fiasco Proves We’re in a ‘Meme Stock’ Bubble")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25927254 ("GameStop Short-Sellers Reload Bets After $6B Loss")

Edit 2: these just in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25934186 ("Nasdaq says they will halt trading if a stock has unusual social media chatter")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933581 ("GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street")

Edit 3: and now this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935511 ("Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935746 ("WSB Went Private on Reddit")

Edit 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25936521 ("Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25937396 ("Ask HN: What the heck is happening with GameStop?")

Edit 5 (the next day):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957748 ("Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941431 ("Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945447 ("We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942240 ("WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942863 ("Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25944051 ("GameStop: Anger as trading in GameStop shares is restricted")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942790 ("An Elegant Revolution Followed by Slaughter")

What will become of us? where will it all lead?

Edit 6: well, it's leading here next:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948391 ("Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947814 ("Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947697 ("Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25949618 ("An Update on Market Volatility")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25950685 ("Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390 ("Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952659 ("Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy")

Edit 7 (another day):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957748 ("Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25958639 ("Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957923 ("Interview with u/DeepFuckingValue, who drove the GameStop Reddit mania")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956329 ("Ask HN: How is GME not a pump-and-dump?")

Edits 8/9 merged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954539 ("Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25952300 ("Suck it, Wall Street" – a Taibbi title)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25979673 ("Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells")