HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18121.

'Incredibly noticeable': alcohol ban cut family violence, crime in Alice Springs (theguardian.com)

97 points by hugh-avherald on Jun 22, 2023 | 161 comments

18122.

Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace (chemistryworld.com)

97 points by herbertl on Aug 5, 2023 | 161 comments

18123.

Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening (sfstandard.com)

97 points by oldschoolib on Apr 11, 2023 | 160 comments

18124.

Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research (salon.com)

97 points by absolute100 on May 12, 2023 | 158 comments

18125.

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off (theregister.com)

97 points by rntn on Oct 23, 2023 | 156 comments

18126.

Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1998) [pdf] (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)

97 points by agomez314 on Aug 7, 2023 | 155 comments

18127.

Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety?

97 points by mightymosquito on Dec 5, 2023 | 153 comments

18128.

Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?

97 points by trvrsalom on Jan 12, 2023 | 138 comments

18129.

Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X (electrek.co)

97 points by mfiguiere on Jan 6, 2023 | 132 comments

18130.

Community is the future of AI: Blog post and community discussion (meta.stackexchange.com)

97 points by yeputons on Apr 17, 2023 | 132 comments

18131.

Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond (allthingsdistributed.com)

97 points by sharjeelsayed on Dec 13, 2023 | 131 comments

18132.

At Stanford law school, the dean takes a stand for free speech. will it work? (nytimes.com)

97 points by gnicholas on Apr 9, 2023 | 129 comments

18133.

Reasons not to become famous (2020) (tim.blog)

97 points by barry-cotter on May 21, 2023 | 127 comments

18134.

NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer (nysenate.gov)

97 points by thunderbong on Oct 16, 2023 | 126 comments

18135.

GitHub Copilot for Business is now available (github.blog)

97 points by markhall on Feb 14, 2023 | 124 comments

18136.

Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy (bbc.com)

97 points by paulpauper on May 27, 2023 | 120 comments

18137.

What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway? (daily.jstor.org)

97 points by PaulHoule on Oct 22, 2023 | 120 comments

18138.

Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout (wsj.com)

97 points by CaliforniaKarl on Dec 20, 2023 | 117 comments

18139.

On Charlie Munger (2019) (jasonzweig.com)

97 points by yarapavan on Jan 1, 2023 | 116 comments

18140.

Arm wants to charge dramatically more for chip licenses (arstechnica.com)

97 points by kergonath on Mar 24, 2023 | 113 comments

18141.

My employer is reneging on its remote-work promise (washingtonpost.com)

97 points by mooreds on Feb 7, 2023 | 109 comments

18142.

Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks (heatmap.news)

97 points by taylorbuley on Sep 8, 2023 | 108 comments

18143.

Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful?

97 points by g4zj on Oct 13, 2023 | 108 comments

18144.

Factors that act(ed) as drag on the European tech/startup scene (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

97 points by zdw on Dec 11, 2023 | 107 comments

18145.

WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity (lifesitenews.com)

97 points by sfusato on Jan 20, 2023 | 106 comments

18146.

Telemetry required? Ask users first (dev.blog.documentfoundation.org)

97 points by trelane on Mar 1, 2023 | 105 comments

18147.

Office vacancies in San Francisco jump to a record 33% (therealdeal.com)

97 points by GalenErso on Apr 14, 2023 | 104 comments

18148.

Mozilla restricts extensions on some domains on Firefox 115 (askvg.com)

97 points by muxator on Jul 4, 2023 | 102 comments

18149.

The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications (acoup.blog)

97 points by Tomte on Sep 8, 2023 | 102 comments

18150.

For the first time in years, I’m excited by my computer purchase (changelog.complete.org)

97 points by pabs3 on Sep 12, 2023 | 100 comments