HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12001.

Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste? (ourworldindata.org)

142 points by animal_spirits on Oct 12, 2022 | 153 comments

12002.

Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

142 points by nsoonhui on May 14, 2022 | 152 comments

12003.

Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key authentication)?

142 points by tonyg on Aug 31, 2022 | 152 comments

12004.

People took some potassium and lost some weight (slimemoldtimemold.com)

142 points by ctoth on Dec 20, 2022 | 151 comments

12005.

Divergent Association Task: Fast creativity test (datcreativity.com)

142 points by amichail on May 1, 2022 | 149 comments

12006.

Why wasn’t the steam engine invented earlier? Part III (antonhowes.substack.com)

142 points by barry-cotter on Oct 14, 2022 | 149 comments

12007.

Can I have a smaller Prometheus (wejick.wordpress.com)

142 points by wejick on Jan 28, 2022 | 147 comments

12008.

The Overlords Finally Showed Up (danielbmarkham.com)

142 points by DanielBMarkham on Dec 25, 2022 | 146 comments

12009.

Tether will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses (tether.to)

142 points by dgs_sgd on Aug 24, 2022 | 142 comments

12010.

Making Open Source economy more viable with dual license collectives (dpc.pw)

142 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 10, 2022 | 133 comments

12011.

Researchers find that a simple “talking to strangers” intervention is effective (psypost.org)

142 points by sinashahandeh on Dec 22, 2022 | 133 comments

12012.

What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like? (transitivebullsh.it)

142 points by transitivebs on Apr 21, 2022 | 131 comments

12013.

Adobe no longer licenses Pantone colors to be used freely Photoshop (arstechnica.com)

142 points by kzemek on Nov 2, 2022 | 131 comments

12014.

Ruby concurrency is hard: how I became a Ruby on Rails contributor (mensfeld.pl)

142 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 23, 2022 | 128 comments

12015.

Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (1997) (man.fas.org)

142 points by davikr on Feb 25, 2022 | 124 comments

12016.

Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism (arstechnica.com)

142 points by dangle1 on Apr 11, 2022 | 123 comments

12017.

How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive (thehustle.co)

142 points by paulpauper on Sep 27, 2022 | 120 comments

12018.

Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of seeing DALL·E /Stable Diffusion posts?

142 points by equilibrium on Aug 31, 2022 | 117 comments

12019.

Map Data: False Assumptions (solutionspace.blog)

142 points by samwillis on Jun 19, 2022 | 114 comments

12020.

The Reliability of Optical Disks (blog.ligos.net)

142 points by gandalfff on Apr 2, 2022 | 112 comments

12021.

Life, school, and the 80:20 rule (2019) (xsrus.com)

142 points by enigmatic02 on Feb 10, 2022 | 111 comments

12022.

California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings (bloomberg.com)

142 points by jd_illa on Sep 2, 2022 | 109 comments

12023.

Corviale, a one-kilometer residential complex in Rome (archdaily.com)

142 points by thunderbong on Dec 17, 2022 | 107 comments

12024.

Remote work has been a boon for night owls (fortune.com)

142 points by goldenkey on Oct 24, 2022 | 106 comments

12025.

Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts (minecraft.net)

142 points by mccorrinall on Feb 9, 2022 | 105 comments

12026.

No need to declare captured Russian tanks, other equipment of invaders as income (en.interfax.com.ua)

142 points by occamschainsaw on Mar 2, 2022 | 105 comments

12027.

How side effects work in FP (chadnauseam.com)

142 points by anchpop on Mar 22, 2022 | 103 comments

12028.

Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years (phys.org)

142 points by pseudolus on Jun 14, 2022 | 102 comments

12029.

Apple introduces new professional training to support growing IT workforce (apple.com)

142 points by todsacerdoti on May 18, 2022 | 100 comments

12030.

Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed (tno.nl)

142 points by FrankyHollywood on Oct 29, 2022 | 99 comments