HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts (threadreaderapp.com)

1075 points by passenger on Apr 22, 2018 | 322 comments

2012.

Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file (github.com)

1075 points by tfinch on Nov 29, 2023 | 288 comments

2013.

Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook (theguardian.com)

1075 points by pmoriarty on Apr 6, 2018 | 276 comments

2014.

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (indieweb.org)

1075 points by 47thpresident 3 months ago | 246 comments

2015.

Victory Lap for Ask Patents (joelonsoftware.com)

1075 points by jaydles on Jul 22, 2013 | 151 comments

2016.

CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone” (joshwcomeau.com)

1075 points by joshwcomeau on Jan 11, 2022 | 141 comments

2017.

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team (mastodon.social)

1074 points by luu on Aug 3, 2023 | 585 comments

2018.

I use zip bombs to protect my server (idiallo.com)

1074 points by foxfired 11 months ago | 447 comments

2019.

Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial (blog.cloudflare.com)

1074 points by jgrahamc on Feb 12, 2024 | 410 comments

2020.

A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website (coding.napolux.com)

1074 points by napolux on Jun 11, 2020 | 407 comments

2021.

Facebook Security Chief Said to Leave After Clashes Over Disinformation (nytimes.com)

1074 points by aaronbrethorst on Mar 19, 2018 | 395 comments

2022.

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (jvns.ca)

1074 points by asicsp on Jul 16, 2020 | 367 comments

2023.

Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN (blog.us.playstation.com)

1074 points by estel on Apr 26, 2011 | 279 comments

2024.

Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets (briansteffens.github.io)

1074 points by signa11 on Jul 5, 2017 | 113 comments

2025.

Modules, not microservices (blogs.newardassociates.com)

1073 points by PretzelFisch on Jan 3, 2023 | 660 comments

2026.

Hotwire: HTML over the Wire (hotwire.dev)

1073 points by samename on Dec 22, 2020 | 545 comments

2027.

Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes (thenextweb.com)

1072 points by jipumarino on Nov 6, 2012 | 637 comments

2028.

Bing AI can't be trusted (dkb.blog)

1072 points by dbrereton on Feb 13, 2023 | 601 comments

2029.

4o Image Generation (openai.com)

1072 points by meetpateltech on Mar 25, 2025 | 599 comments

2030.

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (anthropic.com)

1072 points by Philpax on Mar 27, 2025 | 394 comments

2031.

Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node (bitbucket.org)

1072 points by liamilan on Aug 29, 2018 | 283 comments

2032.

John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died (scanalyst.fourmilab.ch)

1072 points by jdougan on Feb 8, 2024 | 227 comments

2033.

Recursive Game of Life (oimo.io)

1072 points by alden5 on Dec 14, 2022 | 117 comments

2034.

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

1071 points by shannoncc 1 month ago | 980 comments

2035.

Nobody cares (grantslatton.com)

1071 points by fzliu on Jan 15, 2025 | 976 comments

2036.

Careless People (pluralistic.net)

1071 points by Aldipower 11 months ago | 537 comments

2037.

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)

1071 points by mtlynch on Feb 16, 2024 | 321 comments

2038.

Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month (blog.oldgeekjobs.com)