HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7771.

Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas' (nytimes.com)

205 points by carabiner on Dec 1, 2023 | 167 comments

7772.

Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook (technologyreview.com)

205 points by robin_reala on Jan 12, 2023 | 166 comments

7773.

The importance of handwriting is now better understood (economist.com)

205 points by heresie-dabord on Oct 17, 2023 | 166 comments

7774.

'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies (techdirt.com)

205 points by rntn on Nov 21, 2023 | 161 comments

7775.

Everyday uses for PVC water pipe (tomtilley.net)

205 points by fidotron on Sep 15, 2023 | 160 comments

7776.

TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021) (hynek.me)

205 points by rwmj on Feb 21, 2023 | 156 comments

7777.

Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021) (worthdoingbadly.com)

205 points by mooreds on Jan 7, 2023 | 154 comments

7778.

Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves (sos.noaa.gov)

205 points by indigodaddy on Feb 7, 2023 | 153 comments

7779.

OPNsense: Open-source security platform (opnsense.org)

205 points by tambourine_man on Jun 27, 2023 | 149 comments

7780.

Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021) (fs.blog)

205 points by ensocode on Dec 15, 2023 | 141 comments

7781.

Incident with Issues and Pull Requests (githubstatus.com)

205 points by longwave on May 11, 2023 | 139 comments

7782.

School dental program prevents 80% of cavities with non-invasive treatment (nyu.edu)

205 points by voisin on Feb 12, 2023 | 136 comments

7783.

TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in coming months (firstpost.com)

205 points by mfiguiere on Feb 23, 2023 | 135 comments

7784.

MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive (minios.dev)

205 points by akagusu on Oct 4, 2023 | 127 comments

7785.

A GPT-4 capability forecasting challenge (nicholas.carlini.com)

205 points by dwighttk on Sep 2, 2023 | 125 comments

7786.

RustDesk – Remote desktop software, written in Rust (github.com)

205 points by maverick74 on Feb 9, 2023 | 125 comments

7787.

Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data (magicearth.com)

205 points by executesorder66 on Aug 8, 2023 | 123 comments

7788.

The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021) (letsencrypt.org)

205 points by alexzeitler on Sep 16, 2023 | 119 comments

7789.

Tomb Raider (filfre.net)

205 points by barryvan on Jun 3, 2023 | 114 comments

7790.

Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices (security.googleblog.com)

205 points by transpute on Aug 21, 2023 | 114 comments

7791.

Plants can detect sound (economist.com)

205 points by lxm on Sep 18, 2023 | 111 comments

7792.

Scientists create artificial protein that can degrade PET plastics in bottles (phys.org)

205 points by rose_ann_ on Nov 5, 2023 | 108 comments

7793.

I’ll never be an astronaut (shaunoconnell.com)

205 points by weird_science on Aug 13, 2023 | 105 comments

7794.

A customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed SSH (rachelbythebay.com)

205 points by HieronymusBosch on Sep 21, 2023 | 96 comments

7795.

The Philosophy of Computer Science (plato.stanford.edu)

205 points by lucidguppy on Feb 20, 2023 | 95 comments

7796.

Why Google Zanzibar shines at building authorization (blog.warrant.dev)

205 points by kkajla on Jun 25, 2023 | 87 comments

7797.

Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language (yakshalang.github.io)

205 points by JaDogg on Mar 19, 2023 | 86 comments

7798.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware (dortania.github.io)