HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1411.

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (theverge.com)

1243 points by medler on Nov 18, 2023 | 1611 comments

1412.

Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says (npr.org)

1243 points by tmlee on Mar 11, 2020 | 1038 comments

1413.

A Sad Day for Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)

1243 points by pjmlp on Jan 17, 2020 | 991 comments

1414.

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)

1243 points by benwerd 1 month ago | 932 comments

1415.

When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited] (twitter.com)

1243 points by tomduncalf on Jul 29, 2020 | 548 comments

1416.

Advent of Code 2025 (adventofcode.com)

1243 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 397 comments

1417.

Fireflies (ncase.me)

1243 points by bpierre on May 31, 2017 | 89 comments

1418.

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps (varsity.co.uk)

1242 points by yk42bb on Oct 24, 2020 | 536 comments

1419.

iOS 15 Humane (potential.app)

1241 points by uffo on Jun 10, 2021 | 477 comments

1420.

Pebble Watch software is now open source (ericmigi.com)

1241 points by Larrikin 9 months ago | 227 comments

1421.

Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time (looptap.vasanthv.com)

1241 points by vasanthv on Jan 13, 2022 | 170 comments

1422.

Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually (sha256algorithm.com)

1241 points by manceraio on Feb 7, 2022 | 137 comments

1423.

Life in the Spanish city that banned cars (theguardian.com)

1240 points by antr on Sep 18, 2018 | 679 comments

1424.

Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA (newatlas.com)

1240 points by elorant on Nov 26, 2019 | 466 comments

1425.

Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be (science.org)

1239 points by etiam on Jul 26, 2023 | 470 comments

1426.

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (gutenberg.org)

1239 points by JSeiko 3 months ago | 286 comments

1427.

Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] (usenix.org)

1239 points by ketanmaheshwari on May 18, 2020 | 269 comments

1428.

DevDocs API Documentation (devdocs.io)

1239 points by nieksa on Oct 19, 2017 | 141 comments

1429.

How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer (markosaric.com)

1238 points by markosaric on Dec 5, 2019 | 539 comments

1430.

Freeman Dyson Has Died (nytimes.com)

1238 points by ChickeNES on Feb 28, 2020 | 248 comments

1431.

Philae Found (esa.int)

1238 points by de_dave on Sep 5, 2016 | 125 comments

1432.

I am done. I give up

1237 points by wakana on Dec 23, 2022 | 972 comments

1433.

New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data (axios.com)

1237 points by jbegley on May 19, 2020 | 549 comments

1434.

I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups (news.distrokid.com)

1237 points by pud on Feb 15, 2017 | 217 comments

1435.

Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused (twitter.com)

1236 points by gyger on Dec 27, 2019 | 461 comments

1436.

Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans (eff.org)

1236 points by miles on Sep 4, 2021 | 335 comments

1437.

My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT (blog.pinboard.in)

1236 points by firloop on Mar 28, 2016 | 208 comments

1438.

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)

1235 points by dickfickling 1 month ago | 674 comments

1439.

The Llama 4 herd (ai.meta.com)

1235 points by georgehill on Apr 5, 2025 | 658 comments

1440.

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time (quantamagazine.org)

1235 points by theafh on Oct 14, 2020 | 354 comments