HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

Internal Combustion Engine (ciechanow.ski)

2333 points by algui91 on Apr 30, 2021 | 392 comments

152.

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B (wsj.com)

2330 points by DavidWilkinson on Jun 2, 2021 | 846 comments

153.

When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number (mango.pdf.zone)

2326 points by michael_fine on Sep 16, 2020 | 340 comments

154.

Google outage – resolved

2316 points by abluecloud on Dec 14, 2020 | 827 comments

155.

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)

2316 points by Kaibeezy 2 months ago | 777 comments

156.

Ghostty 1.0 (ghostty.org)

2316 points by matrixhelix on Dec 26, 2024 | 679 comments

157.

IMG_0416 (ben-mini.github.io)

2310 points by bewal416 on Nov 10, 2024 | 324 comments

158.

Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes (conduition.io)

2305 points by miki123211 on Jul 8, 2024 | 714 comments

159.

John Conway has died (twitter.com)

2305 points by ColinWright on Apr 11, 2020 | 178 comments

160.

Save .org (savedotorg.org)

2297 points by jaden on Nov 23, 2019 | 342 comments

161.

Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID (github.com)

2292 points by rvnx on Feb 4, 2020 | 615 comments

162.

Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product (smartcar.com)

2292 points by sahaskatta on Apr 22, 2019 | 603 comments

163.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat (theatlantic.com)

2283 points by _tk_ on Mar 24, 2025 | 1291 comments

164.

The End of the Redis Adventure (antirez.com)

2282 points by kristoff_it on Jun 30, 2020 | 294 comments

165.

Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js (code.facebook.com)

2280 points by dwwoelfel on Sep 22, 2017 | 498 comments

166.

Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack (reuters.com)

2278 points by eis on Feb 24, 2022 | 1814 comments

167.

Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (reuters.com)

2272 points by n1000 on Jan 21, 2020 | 696 comments

168.

Llama 2 (ai.meta.com)

2268 points by friggeri on Jul 18, 2023 | 820 comments

169.

Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video] (twitter.com)

2263 points by alecco on Oct 13, 2024 | 1350 comments

170.

Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life (eff.org)

2260 points by bbatsell on Aug 5, 2021 | 824 comments

171.

Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)

2258 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 737 comments

172.

Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth (nature.com)

2256 points by ngoldbaum on Feb 22, 2017 | 704 comments

173.

WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app (arstechnica.com)

2254 points by erwinmatijsen on Jan 6, 2021 | 1148 comments

174.

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 (health.aws.amazon.com)

2246 points by kondro 9 months ago | 2057 comments

175.

Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

2246 points by paraschopra on Jan 23, 2025 | 396 comments

176.

Someone is pretending to be me (connortumbleson.com)

2244 points by iBotPeaches on Sep 27, 2022 | 383 comments

177.

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps (google.com)

2244 points by edge17 on Dec 20, 2021 | 373 comments

178.

Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet (daylightcomputer.com)

2230 points by asadm on May 23, 2024 | 858 comments

179.

Oppose the Earn IT Act (foundation.mozilla.org)

2229 points by joeyespo on Jul 1, 2020 | 543 comments

180.

G is for Google (googleblog.blogspot.com)

2228 points by dkasper on Aug 10, 2015 | 562 comments