HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)

2046 points by x01 5 months ago | 2041 comments

242.

Tony Hoare has died (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

2043 points by speckx 4 months ago | 268 comments

243.

macOS command-line tools you might not know about (saurabhs.org)

2039 points by Gadiguibou on Jun 27, 2023 | 442 comments

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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? (sigpipe.macromates.com)

2031 points by jrk on May 22, 2020 | 998 comments

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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service (blog.mozilla.org)

2031 points by dnlserrano on Mar 12, 2019 | 512 comments

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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)

2031 points by Kerrick 7 months ago | 239 comments

247.

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT (engraved.blog)

2029 points by 317070 on Dec 3, 2022 | 908 comments

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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org)

2024 points by randlet on Jul 12, 2018 | 721 comments

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Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked (twitter.com)

2023 points by benhurmarcel on Feb 8, 2021 | 1174 comments

250.

Firefox is on a slippery slope (drewdevault.com)

2023 points by ddevault on Dec 16, 2017 | 874 comments

251.

Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

2022 points by lmueongoqx on Apr 7, 2021 | 1091 comments

252.

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web (eff.org)

2019 points by mariusz79 on Nov 18, 2014 | 461 comments

253.

Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle (musclewiki.com)

2019 points by punkspider on Jan 21, 2021 | 329 comments

254.

My Youtube earnings (brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com)

2015 points by tpmx on Jan 2, 2023 | 403 comments

255.

Claude 4 (anthropic.com)

2013 points by meetpateltech on May 22, 2025 | 1169 comments

256.

I'm Tired of Talking to AI (orchidfiles.com)

2012 points by theorchid 1 month ago | 951 comments

257.

I regret my website redesign (mtlynch.io)

2011 points by mtlynch on Jul 21, 2022 | 749 comments

258.

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right (nytimes.com)

2011 points by intull on Feb 11, 2016 | 483 comments

259.

The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) (broadcast.listennotes.com)

2010 points by mxschumacher on Sep 16, 2019 | 451 comments

260.

Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

2009 points by apitman on Feb 5, 2019 | 1165 comments

261.

Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store (twitter.com)

2009 points by redsolver on Jan 29, 2021 | 940 comments

262.

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection (ian.sh)

2004 points by iancarroll on Aug 29, 2024 | 440 comments

263.

Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event (axios.com)

2003 points by surajama on Jun 10, 2020 | 517 comments

264.

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch (blog.hopefullyuseful.com)

2001 points by ranebo on Aug 29, 2024 | 478 comments

265.

All Our Patent Are Belong To You (teslamotors.com)

1999 points by gkoberger on Jun 12, 2014 | 314 comments

266.

Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (justine.lol)

1998 points by jart on Feb 26, 2021 | 249 comments

267.

Reddit Strike Has Started (reddark.untone.uk)

1997 points by Freddie111 on Jun 11, 2023 | 1142 comments

268.

Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted (nytimes.com)

1993 points by donohoe on Nov 2, 2023 | 1739 comments

269.

Having Kids (paulgraham.com)

1992 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2019 | 863 comments

270.

Drop Dropbox (drop-dropbox.com)

1990 points by PhilipA on Apr 10, 2014 | 1008 comments