HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

19981.

Driverless cars won’t be good for the environment if they lead to more auto use (theconversation.com)

80 points by CapitalistCartr on Jan 31, 2022 | 165 comments

19982.

Is C++ Doomed? (tednesday.wordpress.com)

80 points by ingve on Feb 23, 2022 | 162 comments

19983.

People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings (scientificamerican.com)

80 points by doener on Nov 13, 2022 | 161 comments

19984.

NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard (reason.com)

80 points by siva7 on Oct 5, 2022 | 153 comments

19985.

RTX 4090 review: Spend at least $1,599 for Nvidia’s biggest bargain in years (arstechnica.com)

80 points by neogodless on Oct 11, 2022 | 152 comments

19986.

Hyperloop lays off half of its employees as it pivots away from passenger travel (businessinsider.com)

80 points by onpedrof on Feb 21, 2022 | 150 comments

19987.

Ask HN: Why are you here?

80 points by BrianOnHN on May 31, 2022 | 145 comments

19988.

Why is the Simula One so expensive? (simulavr.com)

80 points by gurjeet on Jan 13, 2022 | 144 comments

19989.

Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson (vice.com)

80 points by elsewhen on Aug 14, 2022 | 140 comments

19990.

Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images (about.fb.com)

80 points by arkadiyt on Jan 11, 2022 | 136 comments

19991.

Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?

80 points by jamesdco on Mar 6, 2022 | 128 comments

19992.

Why ideologies harm individuals (thomasprosser.substack.com)

80 points by ContrarianBrit on Jan 16, 2022 | 121 comments

19993.

Terraform-AWS-modules/Terraform-AWS-eks transitions to non-free license (github.com)

80 points by pricechild on Mar 17, 2022 | 121 comments

19994.

Deluge BitTorrent Client (deluge-torrent.org)

80 points by memorable on Jun 9, 2022 | 119 comments

19995.

Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017) (hillelwayne.com)

80 points by zdw on Jul 4, 2022 | 113 comments

19996.

Remote work changed their lives. They’re not going back to the office (washingtonpost.com)

80 points by pcl on Oct 22, 2022 | 112 comments

19997.

CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome (edition.cnn.com)

80 points by LinuxBender on Sep 25, 2022 | 110 comments

19998.

The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B (2021) (historyofyesterday.com)

80 points by andruby on May 12, 2022 | 109 comments

19999.

White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new locations (misorobotics.com)

80 points by mono-bob on Mar 14, 2022 | 108 comments

20000.

Poll: Why are you staying at your job?

80 points by willcipriano on Jan 14, 2022 | 102 comments

20001.

“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider Race of Mathematicians (jonathanturley.org)

80 points by leephillips on Apr 12, 2022 | 100 comments

20002.

“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (1982) (timkr.home.xs4all.nl)

80 points by unknownaccount on Sep 21, 2022 | 97 comments

20003.

Esperanto is not my favourite artificial language (2002) (miresperanto.com)

80 points by adamrezich on Nov 7, 2022 | 97 comments

20004.

Chinese students at Cornell “taunt” Uyghur classmate (axios.com)

80 points by ilamont on Mar 15, 2022 | 96 comments

20005.

New evidence suggests giant asteroid impacts created Earth’s continents (singularityhub.com)

80 points by cheinyeanlim on Aug 15, 2022 | 96 comments

20006.

Top Programming Languages 2022 (spectrum.ieee.org)

80 points by furcyd on Aug 23, 2022 | 96 comments

20007.

The Pentagon uses a secret program to wage proxy wars (theintercept.com)

80 points by jbegley on Jul 1, 2022 | 93 comments

20008.

Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended (chrome.google.com)

80 points by amitlevy49 on Apr 28, 2022 | 89 comments

20009.

The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible (foreignpolicy.com)

80 points by davidgerard on May 12, 2022 | 87 comments

20010.

The First RISC: John Cocke and the IBM 801 (thechipletter.substack.com)

80 points by klelatti on Oct 2, 2022 | 87 comments