HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2551.

Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

1027 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Jan 12, 2024 | 357 comments

2552.

How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? (physics.stackexchange.com)

1027 points by williamsmj on Jun 3, 2024 | 195 comments

2553.

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw (bloomberg.com)

1026 points by el_duderino on Jan 3, 2018 | 543 comments

2554.

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me)

1026 points by domenicd on May 18, 2025 | 512 comments

2555.

It's A(door)able (ncase.me)

1026 points by michaelbrooks on May 3, 2023 | 114 comments

2556.

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)

1025 points by mbrubeck on Mar 5, 2024 | 638 comments

2557.

I'm going back to writing code by hand (blog.k10s.dev)

1025 points by dropbox_miner 6 months ago | 615 comments

2558.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

1025 points by baron816 on Jul 6, 2023 | 614 comments

2559.

Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

1025 points by signa11 on Jul 15, 2020 | 524 comments

2560.

Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

1025 points by newZWhoDis on Apr 5, 2023 | 391 comments

2561.

Servo’s new home (blog.servo.org)

1025 points by g0xA52A2A on Nov 17, 2020 | 309 comments

2562.

The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' (keybase.io)

1025 points by jashkenas on Oct 8, 2014 | 230 comments

2563.

Write Code Every Day (ejohn.org)

1025 points by slig on Apr 10, 2014 | 216 comments

2564.

Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior (gamesage.net)

1024 points by chops on Dec 29, 2020 | 566 comments

2565.

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is (heise.de)

1024 points by Projectiboga on Nov 6, 2025 | 506 comments

2566.

Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof (old.reddit.com)

1024 points by petodo on Mar 11, 2023 | 386 comments

2567.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (missing.csail.mit.edu)

1024 points by saikatsg on Feb 25, 2023 | 336 comments

2568.

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live (community.letsencrypt.org)

1024 points by schoen on Mar 13, 2018 | 310 comments

2569.

PostgreSQL 10 Released (postgresql.org)

1024 points by Tostino on Oct 5, 2017 | 296 comments

2570.

My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website (csvbase.com)

1024 points by qsantos on Sep 15, 2023 | 265 comments

2571.

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home (bloomberg.com)

1023 points by mancerayder on Jun 1, 2021 | 856 comments

2572.

Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO (microsoft.com)

1023 points by fredwu on Feb 4, 2014 | 564 comments

2573.

The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user (jameshfisher.com)

1023 points by jamesfisher on Apr 7, 2018 | 506 comments

2574.

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge (twitter.com)

1023 points by leephillips on Sep 7, 2025 | 489 comments

2575.

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost (amandablumwords.wordpress.com)

1023 points by hexis on Mar 21, 2013 | 367 comments

2576.

Meta plans to lay off 10k employees (about.fb.com)

1022 points by darnfish on Mar 14, 2023 | 831 comments

2577.

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)

1022 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 666 comments

2578.

EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides (theguardian.com)

1022 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Apr 27, 2018 | 314 comments

2579.

GitHub Student Developer Pack (education.github.com)

1022 points by dctrwatson on Oct 7, 2014 | 207 comments

2580.

Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)

1021 points by tedsanders on Jan 21, 2025 | 1539 comments