HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12691.

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb (2019) (vice.com)

111 points by gsky on May 10, 2024 | 110 comments

12692.

A Theory of Grift (thediff.co)

111 points by mooreds on Jan 16, 2024 | 110 comments

12693.

Altman's Ambition (thezvi.substack.com)

111 points by dustingetz on Feb 17, 2024 | 104 comments

12694.

The Fall of the House of Etsy (spy.com)

111 points by nutshell89 on May 25, 2024 | 104 comments

12695.

Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates (restofworld.org)

111 points by Geekette on Sep 11, 2024 | 104 comments

12696.

Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?

111 points by hubraumhugo on Dec 25, 2024 | 104 comments

12697.

It Is Somebody's Moral Imperative to Leak "Coyote vs. Acme" to the World (aftermath.site)

111 points by toomanyrichies on Feb 13, 2024 | 100 comments

12698.

Docs as code (2017) (writethedocs.org)

111 points by sumnole on Jul 9, 2024 | 99 comments

12699.

Gary Bowser and gaming's most infamous piracy case (theguardian.com)

111 points by pseudolus on Feb 1, 2024 | 98 comments

12700.

The Katsuification of Britain (vittlesmagazine.com)

111 points by colinprince on Aug 19, 2024 | 98 comments

12701.

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks (1994) (theculture.adactio.com)

111 points by Bluestein on Jul 7, 2024 | 96 comments

12702.

Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack (techcrunch.com)

111 points by ludovicianul on Apr 25, 2024 | 94 comments

12703.

The funding frenzy at Anthropic (nytimes.com)

111 points by bookofjoe on Feb 21, 2024 | 92 comments

12704.

SI Units for Request Rate (two-wrongs.com)

111 points by DaveFlater on Feb 1, 2024 | 91 comments

12705.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023) (biography.com)

111 points by belter on Jun 17, 2024 | 90 comments

12706.

High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging (grizzlyreports.com)

111 points by nicovank on Nov 11, 2024 | 89 comments

12707.

Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge (bunny.net)

111 points by gnabgib on Nov 7, 2024 | 86 comments

12708.

Motorola's legal terms claim to strip owners of their right to sell their device (en-us.support.motorola.com)

111 points by dns_snek on Mar 9, 2024 | 85 comments

12709.

gRPC: The Ugly Parts (kmcd.dev)

111 points by ingve on Sep 3, 2024 | 84 comments

12710.

Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless (techdirt.com)

111 points by rntn on May 2, 2024 | 79 comments

12711.

A ‘double brood’ of periodical cicadas will emerge in 2024 (scientificamerican.com)

111 points by Brajeshwar on Mar 11, 2024 | 76 comments

12712.

Elicit – AI Research Assistant (elicit.com)

111 points by zerojames on May 16, 2024 | 76 comments

12713.

DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years (divestos.org)

111 points by azalemeth on Dec 27, 2024 | 76 comments

12714.

Jazelle DBX: Allow ARM processors to execute Java bytecode in hardware (en.wikipedia.org)

111 points by vincent_s on Jan 22, 2024 | 75 comments

12715.

What happens when an HTTP client raises $225M at a $5.6B valuation (twitter.com)

111 points by bundie on Mar 14, 2024 | 74 comments

12716.

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases (theregister.com)

111 points by pseudolus on Feb 13, 2024 | 73 comments

12717.

Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix (devenv.sh)

111 points by domenkozar on Apr 12, 2024 | 73 comments

12718.

Dr Strangelove at 60 (bbc.com)

111 points by wyclif on Jan 29, 2024 | 70 comments

12719.

Breaking Bitlocker – Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption [video] (youtube.com)

111 points by tkems on Feb 3, 2024 | 69 comments

12720.

GitHub is preparing for IPv6 support for Github.com (githubstatus.com)

111 points by tonymet on Feb 5, 2024 | 67 comments