HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? (haneycodes.net)

1725 points by df07 on Mar 23, 2016 | 854 comments

482.

Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news (tomshardware.com)

1725 points by taubek on Mar 27, 2023 | 850 comments

483.

Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018) (anishathalye.com)

1724 points by soegaard on Aug 6, 2019 | 214 comments

484.

Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished (troyhunt.com)

1723 points by ahonhn on Feb 23, 2024 | 564 comments

485.

My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies (daliaawad28.medium.com)

1723 points by daliaawad on Feb 24, 2021 | 460 comments

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OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (arcprize.org)

1722 points by maurycy on Dec 20, 2024 | 1753 comments

487.

Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal (politico.com)

1722 points by AndrewBissell on Sep 2, 2020 | 472 comments

488.

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax (propublica.org)

1721 points by danso on Dec 31, 2019 | 448 comments

489.

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People (bloomberg.com)

1720 points by coloneltcb on Nov 21, 2017 | 572 comments

490.

But life had other plans (danlebrero.com)

1718 points by JBiserkov on Mar 23, 2022 | 225 comments

491.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)

1717 points by sohkamyung 3 weeks ago | 254 comments

492.

A cab ride I'll never forget (1999) (kentnerburn.com)

1717 points by fileeditview on Jan 16, 2023 | 168 comments

493.

Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup (gomox.medium.com)

1714 points by gomox on Jan 16, 2021 | 543 comments

494.

Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript (code.facebook.com)

1714 points by cpojer on Oct 11, 2016 | 469 comments

495.

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)

1714 points by verditelabs 4 months ago | 369 comments

496.

Hacker News API (blog.ycombinator.com)

1714 points by kevin on Oct 7, 2014 | 298 comments

497.

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty (axios.com)

1712 points by sdan on Jan 4, 2022 | 1234 comments

498.

OpenTF announces fork of Terraform (opentf.org)

1711 points by cube2222 on Aug 25, 2023 | 486 comments

499.

Anthropic S-1 (sec.gov)

1709 points by SiNTEx 2 weeks ago | 1679 comments

500.

Panic at the Job Market (matt.sh)

1709 points by speckx on Jul 17, 2024 | 1562 comments

501.

Why wordfreq will not be updated (github.com)

1707 points by tomthe on Sep 18, 2024 | 510 comments

502.

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (eff.org)

1706 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 763 comments

503.

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI (openai.com)

1705 points by _just7_ on Sep 21, 2022 | 481 comments

504.

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (theverge.com)

1704 points by ardit33 on Aug 13, 2020 | 1432 comments

505.

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

1703 points by danrocks on Nov 30, 2021 | 655 comments

506.

Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)

1701 points by bradleyg223 1 month ago | 1189 comments

507.

Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (blog.twitter.com)

1700 points by jonknee on Mar 31, 2023 | 1185 comments

508.

Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (home.treasury.gov)

1699 points by FormerBandmate on Mar 12, 2023 | 2512 comments

509.

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo (bloomberg.com)

1697 points by _vvdf on Aug 8, 2017 | 2371 comments

510.

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com)

1697 points by JustExAWS on Aug 21, 2025 | 744 comments