HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9751.

Never trust a programmer who says they know C++ (lbrandy.com)

174 points by sh_tomer on Jun 5, 2023 | 224 comments

9752.

The crash of Air France flight 447 (2021) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

174 points by gus_leonel on Aug 11, 2023 | 221 comments

9753.

I measured the pollution from my gas stove (distilled.earth)

174 points by jseliger on Jan 9, 2023 | 211 comments

9754.

Cargo Cult AI (queue.acm.org)

174 points by andsoitis on Aug 5, 2023 | 208 comments

9755.

China solar module prices keep diving (pv-magazine.com)

174 points by flipbrad on Jun 23, 2023 | 206 comments

9756.

Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe (nytimes.com)

174 points by pretext on Oct 30, 2023 | 200 comments

9757.

Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic (bloomberg.com)

174 points by thunderbong on Feb 5, 2023 | 191 comments

9758.

Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)

174 points by jeswin on Oct 4, 2023 | 188 comments

9759.

Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show (theglobeandmail.com)

174 points by ilamont on Sep 9, 2023 | 187 comments

9760.

As I get older, I just don't care about new technology (old.reddit.com)

174 points by redbell on Aug 26, 2023 | 176 comments

9761.

Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people (statnews.com)

174 points by wjb3 on Dec 24, 2023 | 170 comments

9762.

I don't want to host services but I do (ergaster.org)

174 points by thibaultamartin on Aug 9, 2023 | 169 comments

9763.

Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families (theguardian.com)

174 points by pera on Sep 21, 2023 | 162 comments

9764.

Bun, JavaScript, and TCO (onsclom.net)

174 points by tosh on Dec 31, 2023 | 162 comments

9765.

Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation (venturebeat.com)

174 points by thunderbong on Jul 29, 2023 | 161 comments

9766.

Cargo cult science (1974) (calteches.library.caltech.edu)

174 points by sherilm on Mar 6, 2023 | 156 comments

9767.

OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request Form (share.hsforms.com)

174 points by ciccionamente on May 4, 2023 | 153 comments

9768.

OpenSUSE Linux gains momentum (linuxiac.com)

174 points by jrepinc on Mar 26, 2023 | 151 comments

9769.

I cancelled my Replit subscription (journal.paoloamoroso.com)

174 points by Tomte on Nov 19, 2023 | 150 comments

9770.

Caltech to launch space solar power technology demo into orbit (caltech.edu)

174 points by WalterBright on Jan 5, 2023 | 144 comments

9771.

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)

174 points by ingve on Sep 18, 2023 | 141 comments

9772.

Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began (cidrap.umn.edu)

174 points by belltaco on Sep 25, 2023 | 141 comments

9773.

A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT (nytimes.com)

174 points by nlh on May 27, 2023 | 139 comments

9774.

Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy (adventofcode.com)

174 points by eddtries on Oct 16, 2023 | 129 comments

9775.

How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1 (blog.whimslab.io)

174 points by thunderbong on Aug 24, 2023 | 128 comments

9776.

3 Men Convicted of Harassing Family on Behalf of China’s Government (nytimes.com)

174 points by jbegley on Jun 20, 2023 | 126 comments

9777.

Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace? (twitter.com)

174 points by raybb on Jun 21, 2023 | 124 comments

9778.

HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans (github.com)

174 points by alexzeitler on Oct 9, 2023 | 123 comments

9779.

Monkey stone tools shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites (journals.sagepub.com)

174 points by wslh on Jan 7, 2023 | 119 comments

9780.

Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report (theconversation.com)

174 points by LinuxBender on Sep 23, 2023 | 119 comments