HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

America Has Too Many Laws – An excess of restrictions has taken a real toll (theatlantic.com)

45 points by bell-cot on Aug 5, 2024 | 68 comments

2012.

What I learned about a plastic-free life (npr.org)

45 points by sabrina_ramonov on Aug 2, 2024 | 67 comments

2013.

San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of X headquarters: 'Good riddance' (nypost.com)

45 points by jarsin on Aug 25, 2024 | 56 comments

2014.

State Monad for the Rest of Us (arialdomartini.github.io)

45 points by arialdomartini on Aug 6, 2024 | 55 comments

2015.

A $557B Drop in Office Values Eclipses a Revival of Cities (bloomberg.com)

45 points by petethomas on Aug 27, 2024 | 54 comments

2016.

Neon Postgres vs. Supabase (devtoolsacademy.com)

45 points by TheAnkurTyagi on Aug 12, 2024 | 47 comments

2017.

What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?

45 points by edwinkys on Aug 25, 2024 | 46 comments

2018.

macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission promptfor screenshot, screen recording apps (daringfireball.net)

45 points by jtbayly on Aug 8, 2024 | 41 comments

2019.

If Fever Helps Fight Infection, Should I Avoid Fever-Reducing Drugs? (2018) (nytimes.com)

45 points by doener on Aug 7, 2024 | 37 comments

2020.

Docker Performance Evaluation Across Operating Systems (mdpi-res.com)

45 points by drgo on Aug 27, 2024 | 37 comments

2021.

Books of the world, stand up and be counted All 129,864,880 of you. (2010) (booksearch.blogspot.com)

45 points by Bluestein on Aug 9, 2024 | 36 comments

2022.

Why are so many car YouTubers quitting? (theverge.com)

45 points by rkwz on Aug 11, 2024 | 31 comments

2023.

The EU's AI Act is now in force (techcrunch.com)

45 points by quxinxin on Aug 2, 2024 | 30 comments

2024.

NASA's problems with launch tower for SLS are getting worse (arstechnica.com)

45 points by NavinF on Aug 28, 2024 | 30 comments

2025.

What Are 'Mini-Retirements,' and Who Takes Them? (thecut.com)

45 points by janandonly on Aug 20, 2024 | 29 comments

2026.

Atlas: A Windows modification to optimize performance, privacy and usability (atlasos.net)

45 points by TaurenHunter on Aug 11, 2024 | 27 comments

2027.

Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months (erikschluntz.com)

45 points by eschluntz on Aug 5, 2024 | 26 comments

2028.

Berkshire Cuts Apple Stake by Almost Half in Selling Spree (bloomberg.com)

45 points by paulpauper on Aug 3, 2024 | 24 comments

2029.

AFP Spent $500k Trying to Lock Up Autistic 13-Year-Old on Terrorism Charges (techdirt.com)

45 points by hn_acker on Aug 16, 2024 | 24 comments

2030.

ARRL IT Security Incident – $1M ransom (arrl.org)

45 points by 7402 on Aug 22, 2024 | 21 comments

2031.

Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts (nypost.com)

45 points by TMWNN on Aug 26, 2024 | 19 comments

2032.

Sergey Brin: "Irate Call from Steve Jobs" (2005) (twitter.com)

45 points by mooreds on Aug 17, 2024 | 15 comments

2033.

I'm taking a sabbatical through end of year (twitter.com)

45 points by lopkeny12ko on Aug 6, 2024 | 14 comments

2034.

UK chip giant ARM developing GPU in Israel (en.globes.co.il)

45 points by ksec on Aug 17, 2024 | 12 comments

2035.

Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands (theregister.com)

45 points by mfiguiere on Aug 23, 2024 | 11 comments

2036.

Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me prescription drugs (vox.com)

45 points by sea-gold on Aug 29, 2024 | 11 comments

2037.

Pierre Cartier Has Died (lemonde.fr)

45 points by Paul-Craft on Aug 23, 2024 | 7 comments

2038.

Running NixOS on Proxmox LXC (taoofmac.com)

45 points by rcarmo on Aug 17, 2024 | 6 comments

2039.

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison (apnews.com)

45 points by geox on Aug 28, 2024 | 6 comments

2040.

Show HN: SpecOS – A 64 bit OS kernel from scratch (github.com)

45 points by jakeStbu on Aug 8, 2024 | 5 comments