HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20551.

America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants (reuters.com)

77 points by cpeterso on Sep 30, 2022 | 63 comments

20552.

Elon Musk terminating Twitter deal (reuters.com)

77 points by rmason on Jul 8, 2022 | 61 comments

20553.

Something I implemented today: “is void” (herbsutter.com)

77 points by ibobev on Sep 25, 2022 | 61 comments

20554.

HBO Cancels Westworld (arstechnica.com)

77 points by mikkom on Nov 7, 2022 | 61 comments

20555.

Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption benefits heart health (sciencedaily.com)

77 points by hubraumhugo on Apr 10, 2022 | 60 comments

20556.

The Cost of Exception Handling (grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com)

77 points by boyter on Nov 11, 2022 | 60 comments

20557.

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) (discord.com)

77 points by hiena03 on Apr 13, 2022 | 59 comments

20558.

I made an app to find great food trucks near you (sizzzle.app)

77 points by nate_rw on May 7, 2022 | 59 comments

20559.

‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction (theguardian.com)

77 points by pseudolus on Jan 15, 2022 | 58 comments

20560.

The Welfare Effects of Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Airline Markets (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

77 points by rustoo on Mar 25, 2022 | 57 comments

20561.

How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work (worldsensorium.com)

77 points by dnetesn on Sep 10, 2022 | 57 comments

20562.

Characterizing emergent phenomena in large language models (ai.googleblog.com)

77 points by fofoz on Dec 19, 2022 | 57 comments

20563.

Only positive reinforcement for researchers in some fields (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

77 points by thetan on Nov 23, 2022 | 52 comments

20564.

Ask HN: I read comments before the article, do you?

77 points by Crystalin on Apr 10, 2022 | 49 comments

20565.

Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems (lockable.dev)

77 points by keyless_ on Jun 16, 2022 | 49 comments

20566.

Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication (quantamagazine.org)

77 points by harscoat on Sep 7, 2022 | 49 comments

20567.

‘Disabled’ is not a bad word. Stop telling people with disabilities it is (irishtimes.com)

77 points by Anthony-G on Apr 26, 2022 | 48 comments

20568.

Symphonic Metal Bands: Nerdiness vs. Kickassery – A Statistical Analysis (medium.com)

77 points by wolframhempel on Jun 5, 2022 | 46 comments

20569.

In Algeria, ancient cave art may show psychedelic mushroom use (atlasobscura.com)

77 points by prismatic on Jun 7, 2022 | 46 comments

20570.

Have scholars finally deciphered Linear Elamite? (smithsonianmag.com)

77 points by Hooke on Sep 18, 2022 | 46 comments

20571.

Classic SE Mistakes (1996) (cs.nmsu.edu)

77 points by arpa on Oct 6, 2022 | 46 comments

20572.

Blind: Meta's office to be closed on Wed – 15% layoff (5% Eng 50% recruiting) (teamblind.com)

77 points by donsupreme on Nov 8, 2022 | 46 comments

20573.

Amazon's Book Piracy Problem (hairysun.com)

77 points by softwaredoug on Jul 24, 2022 | 45 comments

20574.

Re-Reading Tanenbaum’s Critique of RPC 30 Years Later (bu.edu)

77 points by iamwil on Mar 26, 2022 | 44 comments

20575.

Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com)

77 points by gslin on Nov 26, 2022 | 43 comments

20576.

Yes, It’s Censorship (doctorow.medium.com)

77 points by timf on Dec 4, 2022 | 43 comments

20577.

Taming names in software development (simplethread.com)

77 points by jetheredge on Dec 11, 2022 | 43 comments

20578.

Web Audio Modem (2017) (martinmelhus.com)

77 points by klaussilveira on May 27, 2022 | 42 comments

20579.

Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content (blog.cloudflare.com)

77 points by jgrahamc on Aug 26, 2022 | 42 comments

20580.

SVGs as Elm Code (blog.noredink.com)

77 points by webwielder2 on Nov 3, 2022 | 42 comments