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1. Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com) 6012 points by Cogito 6 years ago | 155 comments 2. A Message to Our Customers (apple.com) 5762 points by epaga 8 years ago | 222 comments 3. OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com) 5695 points by davidbarker 5 months ago | 426 comments 4. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise (openwall.com) 4507 points by rkta 2 weeks ago | 195 comments 5. Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski) 4289 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 107 comments 6. Bram Moolenaar has died (groups.google.com) 4264 points by wufocaculura 8 months ago | 270 comments 7. YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com) 4131 points by phantop 3 years ago | 254 comments 8. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber (susanjfowler.com) 4084 points by grey-area 7 years ago | 150 comments 9. GPT-4 (openai.com) 4073 points by e0m 1 year ago | 252 comments 10. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv) 3816 points by kuroguro 3 years ago | 108 comments 11. Bye, Amazon (tbray.org) 3792 points by grey-area 3 years ago | 111 comments 12. Kevin Mitnick has died (dignitymemorial.com) 3688 points by thirtyseven 8 months ago | 199 comments 13. Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com) 3636 points by davidbarker 2 months ago | 310 comments 14. Google Search Is Dying (dkb.io) 3608 points by dbrereton 2 years ago | 371 comments 15. Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com) 3581 points by cmod 4 years ago | 191 comments 16. Apollo will close down on June 30th (old.reddit.com) 3414 points by timf 10 months ago | 210 comments 17. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (nytimes.com) 3381 points by panny 6 years ago | 159 comments 18. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates 3361 points by SimingtonFCC 7 months ago | 226 comments 19. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” (simonwillison.net) 3348 points by simonw 1 year ago | 222 comments 20. Switch from Chrome to Firefox (mozilla.org) 3276 points by WisNorCan 4 years ago | 174 comments 21. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 3252 points by zachrip 3 years ago | 191 comments 22. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory (bugs.chromium.org) 3234 points by tptacek 7 years ago | 158 comments 23. FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank (fdic.gov) 3162 points by khuey 1 year ago | 166 comments 24. UK votes to leave EU (bbc.co.uk) 3125 points by dmmalam 7 years ago | 215 comments 25. Tim Cook Speaks Up (businessweek.com) 3084 points by replicatorblog 9 years ago | 88 comments 26. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. (apnews.com) 3042 points by granzymes 3 years ago | 228 comments 27. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (security.googleblog.com) 3024 points by pfg 7 years ago | 80 comments 28. Sound (ciechanow.ski) 3019 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 86 comments 29. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com) 3000 points by vladikoff 6 years ago | 195 comments 30. Bicycle (ciechanow.ski) 2986 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 83 comments More

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