HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20161.

A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet from Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars for Years (thedrive.com)

65 points by aloukissas on Mar 31, 2024 | 48 comments

20162.

How should the new <selectedoption> element work? (jakearchibald.com)

65 points by jaffathecake on Oct 18, 2024 | 48 comments

20163.

Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs (theverge.com)

65 points by chaychoong on Aug 22, 2024 | 47 comments

20164.

How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount (tech.ahrefs.com)

65 points by botsbreeder on May 9, 2024 | 46 comments

20165.

Brazil to Fine Anyone Using a VPN to Access X $8,874 per Day; Elon Musk Responds (complex.com)

65 points by josephcsible on Sep 2, 2024 | 46 comments

20166.

T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4B deal (cnbc.com)

65 points by jmsflknr on May 28, 2024 | 45 comments

20167.

Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?

65 points by ggeorgovassilis on Aug 19, 2024 | 45 comments

20168.

How we made a Ruby method 200x faster (campsite.com)

65 points by nholden on Nov 12, 2024 | 45 comments

20169.

Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe (cnx-software.com)

65 points by zdw on Dec 24, 2024 | 45 comments

20170.

Steve Jobs adopted no 'bozos' policy – best managers those who never wanted job (aol.com)

65 points by pg_1234 on Feb 25, 2024 | 44 comments

20171.

The company building a rotating detonation engine is pushing the tech forward (arstechnica.com)

65 points by CharlesW on Mar 28, 2024 | 44 comments

20172.

Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++ (austinmorlan.com)

65 points by sph on May 18, 2024 | 44 comments

20173.

FreeWP Is Here to Shake Up the WordPress Ecosystem (freewp.com)

65 points by rpgbr on Oct 10, 2024 | 44 comments

20174.

Tesla engineers don't have engineering degrees or even common sense apparently (twitter.com)

65 points by kelthuzad on Mar 30, 2024 | 43 comments

20175.

More on x86 – The Chip Letter (thechipletter.substack.com)

65 points by rbanffy on Apr 25, 2024 | 43 comments

20176.

The Lone Volcano in California's Central Valley (nytimes.com)

65 points by benbreen on Mar 24, 2024 | 42 comments

20177.

Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement (optometryadvisor.com)

65 points by yamrzou on Apr 11, 2024 | 41 comments

20178.

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration app (arstechnica.com)

65 points by tannhaeuser on Sep 2, 2024 | 41 comments

20179.

Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated (originality.ai)

65 points by cdme on Nov 27, 2024 | 41 comments

20180.

Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

65 points by nabi_nafio on Sep 8, 2024 | 41 comments

20181.

The Antitrust Revolution (harpers.org)

65 points by pseudolus on Nov 6, 2024 | 40 comments

20182.

The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

65 points by mathgenius on Nov 6, 2024 | 39 comments

20183.

Long Term Refactors (max.engineer)

65 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 26, 2024 | 38 comments

20184.

Incentives and the Cobra Effect (boz.com)

65 points by momentmaker on Feb 6, 2024 | 37 comments

20185.

Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide (ente.io)

65 points by setalp on Jul 17, 2024 | 36 comments

20186.

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why. (technologyreview.com)

65 points by branko_d on Mar 9, 2024 | 36 comments

20187.

Epic Games Store Launches on iPhone in EU, Brings Fortnite Back to iOS (macrumors.com)

65 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2024 | 36 comments

20188.

A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again (mccue.dev)