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1. Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com) 6012 points by Cogito 5 years ago | 155 comments 2. A Message to Our Customers (apple.com) 5762 points by epaga 7 years ago | 222 comments 3. OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com) 5695 points by davidbarker 2 weeks ago | 426 comments 4. Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski) 4289 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 107 comments 5. Bram Moolenaar has died (groups.google.com) 4264 points by wufocaculura 3 months ago | 270 comments 6. YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com) 4131 points by phantop 3 years ago | 254 comments 7. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber (susanjfowler.com) 4084 points by grey-area 6 years ago | 150 comments 8. GPT-4 (openai.com) 4073 points by e0m 8 months ago | 252 comments 9. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv) 3816 points by kuroguro 2 years ago | 108 comments 10. Bye, Amazon (tbray.org) 3792 points by grey-area 3 years ago | 111 comments 11. Kevin Mitnick has died (dignitymemorial.com) 3688 points by thirtyseven 4 months ago | 199 comments 12. Google Search Is Dying (dkb.io) 3608 points by dbrereton 1 year ago | 371 comments 13. Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com) 3581 points by cmod 3 years ago | 191 comments 14. Apollo will close down on June 30th (old.reddit.com) 3414 points by timf 5 months ago | 210 comments 15. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (nytimes.com) 3381 points by panny 5 years ago | 159 comments 16. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates 3361 points by SimingtonFCC 2 months ago | 226 comments 17. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” (simonwillison.net) 3348 points by simonw 9 months ago | 222 comments 18. Switch from Chrome to Firefox (mozilla.org) 3276 points by WisNorCan 4 years ago | 174 comments 19. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 3252 points by zachrip 3 years ago | 191 comments 20. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory (bugs.chromium.org) 3234 points by tptacek 6 years ago | 158 comments 21. FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank (fdic.gov) 3162 points by khuey 8 months ago | 166 comments 22. UK votes to leave EU (bbc.co.uk) 3125 points by dmmalam 7 years ago | 215 comments 23. Tim Cook Speaks Up (businessweek.com) 3084 points by replicatorblog 9 years ago | 88 comments 24. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. (apnews.com) 3042 points by granzymes 3 years ago | 228 comments 25. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (security.googleblog.com) 3024 points by pfg 6 years ago | 80 comments 26. Sound (ciechanow.ski) 3019 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 86 comments 27. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password (twitter.com) 3000 points by vladikoff 6 years ago | 195 comments 28. Bicycle (ciechanow.ski) 2986 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 83 comments 29. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches (techcrunch.com) 2960 points by mpweiher 5 years ago | 132 comments 30. I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com) 2947 points by eightturn 4 years ago | 91 comments More

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