HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu)

1463 points by bdr on Jan 2, 2019 | 238 comments

812.

Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] (courthousenews.com)

1462 points by modeless on Mar 1, 2024 | 1208 comments

813.

Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing (elastic.co)

1461 points by buro9 on Jan 19, 2021 | 681 comments

814.

Hertzbleed Attack (hertzbleed.com)

1461 points by arkadiyt on Jun 14, 2022 | 393 comments

815.

Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch (text.npr.org)

1461 points by everybodyknows on Mar 7, 2021 | 298 comments

816.

ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is (eff.org)

1460 points by mantiq on Aug 29, 2023 | 1257 comments

817.

Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

1460 points by newsbinator on Nov 20, 2019 | 1076 comments

818.

Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track (github.com)

1460 points by dsr12 on Nov 3, 2019 | 175 comments

819.

Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation (theguardian.com)

1459 points by m1 on Aug 18, 2013 | 449 comments

820.

WikiTok (wikitok.vercel.app)

1458 points by Group_B on Feb 4, 2025 | 221 comments

821.

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com)

1457 points by kevlened 6 months ago | 840 comments

822.

Facebook Container for Firefox (mozilla.org)

1457 points by sushicalculus on Oct 21, 2020 | 425 comments

823.

In Memoriam: Ian Murdock (blog.docker.com)

1457 points by spb on Dec 30, 2015 | 366 comments

824.

Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong (blog.emojipedia.org)

1456 points by pulisse on Oct 7, 2019 | 686 comments

825.

0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms (gist.github.com)

1456 points by hackermondev on Jan 21, 2025 | 437 comments

826.

Space Elevator (neal.fun)

1456 points by nivethan on Apr 19, 2023 | 207 comments

827.

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites (haaretz.com)

1455 points by ahmetcadirci25 on Jun 28, 2025 | 1122 comments

828.

CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals (sciencedirect.com)

1455 points by shannietron on May 2, 2017 | 239 comments

829.

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen (theverge.com)

1454 points by kwindla on Apr 25, 2025 | 1297 comments

830.

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (anthropic.com)

1454 points by weirdcat on Oct 22, 2024 | 735 comments

831.

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN (techcrunch.com)

1454 points by randomacct3847 on Jan 29, 2019 | 445 comments

832.

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months (samcurry.net)

1454 points by samwcyo on Oct 8, 2020 | 308 comments

833.

Is that ship still stuck? (istheshipstillstuck.com)

1453 points by ColinWright on Mar 25, 2021 | 1237 comments

834.

Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays (news.ycombinator.com)

1452 points by O__________O on Dec 23, 2022 | 152 comments

835.

I made a smart watch from scratch (m.imgur.com)

1451 points by mnem on Apr 30, 2019 | 216 comments

836.

A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system (twitter.com)

1450 points by dmit on May 10, 2017 | 522 comments

837.

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos (fightchatcontrol.eu)