HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Stephen Hawking has died (bbc.com)

6015 points by Cogito on Mar 14, 2018 | 436 comments

2.

A Message to Our Customers (apple.com)

5771 points by epaga on Feb 17, 2016 | 967 comments

3.

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)

5710 points by davidbarker on Nov 17, 2023 | 2531 comments

4.

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise (openwall.com)

4549 points by rkta on Mar 29, 2024 | 1849 comments

5.

CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (old.reddit.com)

4481 points by BLKNSLVR 11 months ago | 3847 comments

6.

Steve Jobs has passed away. (apple.com)

4338 points by patricktomas on Oct 5, 2011 | 363 comments

7.

Bram Moolenaar has died (groups.google.com)

4310 points by wufocaculura on Aug 5, 2023 | 428 comments

8.

Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski)

4298 points by todsacerdoti on May 4, 2022 | 413 comments

9.

YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA (github.com)

4240 points by phantop on Oct 23, 2020 | 1443 comments

10.

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber (susanjfowler.com)

4107 points by grey-area on Feb 19, 2017 | 1013 comments

11.

Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)

4103 points by pdoconnell on Apr 5, 2021 | 932 comments

12.

GPT-4 (openai.com)

4091 points by e0m on Mar 14, 2023 | 2507 comments

13.

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (intuitiveexplanations.com)

4022 points by raxod502 on Jun 7, 2021 | 1274 comments

14.

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (nee.lv)

3883 points by kuroguro on Feb 28, 2021 | 699 comments

15.

Bye, Amazon (tbray.org)

3816 points by grey-area on May 4, 2020 | 1097 comments

16.

Kevin Mitnick has died (dignitymemorial.com)

3699 points by thirtyseven on Jul 19, 2023 | 614 comments

17.

Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com)

3647 points by davidbarker on Feb 15, 2024 | 2231 comments

18.

Google Search Is Dying (dkb.io)

3636 points by dbrereton on Feb 15, 2022 | 1561 comments

19.

Every Google result now looks like an ad (twitter.com)

3592 points by cmod on Jan 21, 2020 | 972 comments

20.

Show HN: This up votes itself (news.ycombinator.com)

3531 points by olalonde on Mar 23, 2012 | 82 comments

21.

A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design (search.marginalia.nu)

3441 points by Funes- on Sep 16, 2021 | 717 comments

22.

Apollo will close down on June 30th (old.reddit.com)

3421 points by timf on Jun 8, 2023 | 1609 comments

23.

My First Impressions of Web3 (moxie.org)

3393 points by natdempk on Jan 7, 2022 | 1129 comments

24.

Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates

3387 points by SimingtonFCC on Sep 5, 2023 | 925 comments

25.

F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (nytimes.com)

3384 points by panny on Dec 14, 2017 | 1431 comments

26.

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” (simonwillison.net)

3363 points by simonw on Feb 15, 2023 | 1673 comments

27.

GitHub, fuck your name change (mooseyanon.medium.com)

3353 points by leontrolski on Mar 17, 2021 | 2007 comments

28.

Switch from Chrome to Firefox (mozilla.org)

3287 points by WisNorCan on May 30, 2019 | 983 comments

29.

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

3270 points by zachrip on Apr 19, 2020 | 473 comments

30.

Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory (bugs.chromium.org)

3238 points by tptacek on Feb 23, 2017 | 992 comments