HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

481.

Why wordfreq will not be updated (github.com)

1707 points by tomthe on Sep 18, 2024 | 510 comments

482.

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (eff.org)

1706 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 763 comments

483.

Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI (openai.com)

1705 points by _just7_ on Sep 21, 2022 | 481 comments

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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (theverge.com)

1704 points by ardit33 on Aug 13, 2020 | 1432 comments

485.

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe

1703 points by danrocks on Nov 30, 2021 | 655 comments

486.

Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (blog.twitter.com)

1700 points by jonknee on Mar 31, 2023 | 1185 comments

487.

Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (home.treasury.gov)

1699 points by FormerBandmate on Mar 12, 2023 | 2512 comments

488.

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo (bloomberg.com)

1697 points by _vvdf on Aug 8, 2017 | 2371 comments

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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com)

1697 points by JustExAWS on Aug 21, 2025 | 744 comments

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)

1697 points by speckx 2 weeks ago | 401 comments

491.

Your phone is about to stop being yours (keepandroidopen.org)

1696 points by doener 4 months ago | 887 comments

492.

I resigned from Twitter (twitter.com)

1692 points by ryzvonusef on Nov 29, 2021 | 1061 comments

493.

Firefox 57.0 Released (mozilla.org)

1692 points by l2dy on Nov 14, 2017 | 813 comments

494.

Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code (github.com)

1692 points by tardismechanic on Feb 9, 2021 | 214 comments

495.

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? (arxiv.org)

1690 points by Akronymus on Jul 25, 2023 | 877 comments

496.

Tell HN: Salary data is for sale

1690 points by bsilvereagle on Jan 7, 2022 | 762 comments

497.

O.mg Cable (shop.hak5.org)

1690 points by fredley on Sep 2, 2021 | 538 comments

498.

XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' (theguardian.com)

1688 points by sinak on Jul 31, 2013 | 612 comments

499.

Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B (bloomberg.com)

1687 points by whatok on Jun 16, 2017 | 824 comments

500.

I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service (tinyprojects.dev)

1683 points by tinyprojects on Mar 11, 2021 | 612 comments

501.

It Can Happen to You (mattkeeter.com)

1683 points by mooreds on Mar 4, 2021 | 403 comments

502.

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE (wired.com)

1682 points by medler on Feb 2, 2025 | 2986 comments

503.

Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

1681 points by sidyapa on Apr 6, 2018 | 302 comments

504.

The new and upgraded Framework Laptop (community.frame.work)

1680 points by etbusch on May 19, 2022 | 738 comments

505.

Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

1680 points by Jrh0203 1 month ago | 415 comments

506.

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)

1679 points by lawlessone 8 months ago | 549 comments

507.

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones (ericmigi.com)

1678 points by griffinli on Mar 18, 2025 | 1106 comments

508.

Lessons from 14 years at Google (addyosmani.com)

1678 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 688 comments

509.

Goodbye, Clean Code (overreacted.io)

1678 points by danabramov on Jan 11, 2020 | 575 comments

510.

Dear GitHub (github.com)

1678 points by msvan on Jan 14, 2016 | 463 comments