HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

26491.

CA bill to require all new cars to prevent them from going 10mph over speedlimit (sfchronicle.com)

43 points by lando2319 on Jan 25, 2024 | 154 comments

26492.

Rents Are the Fed's 'Biggest Stumbling Block' in Taming US Inflation (bloomberg.com)

43 points by sawsann on Apr 18, 2024 | 131 comments

26493.

RawJS is a better way to call document.createElement() (squaresapp.org)

43 points by synergy20 on Jan 3, 2024 | 130 comments

26494.

Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021) (shamusyoung.com)

43 points by davikr on Jan 27, 2024 | 128 comments

26495.

Scaling will never get us to AGI (garymarcus.substack.com)

43 points by isaacfrond on Apr 11, 2024 | 119 comments

26496.

AI 'hallucinated' fake legal cases filed to B.C. court in Canadian first (globalnews.ca)

43 points by luu on Jan 24, 2024 | 112 comments

26497.

The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd (noahpinion.blog)

43 points by paulpauper on Jan 23, 2024 | 104 comments

26498.

Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow (eurogamer.net)

43 points by amichail on Jul 31, 2024 | 103 comments

26499.

American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring (vox.com)

43 points by neallindsay on Feb 23, 2024 | 97 comments

26500.

Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators after Windows outage (washingtonpost.com)

43 points by leotravis10 on Jul 20, 2024 | 96 comments

26501.

Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7 (arstechnica.com)

43 points by ksec on Sep 10, 2024 | 94 comments

26502.

U.S. No Longer Ranks Among 20 Happiest Countries (wsj.com)

43 points by kvee on Mar 20, 2024 | 92 comments

26503.

J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment" (aeon.co)

43 points by pepys on Dec 26, 2024 | 92 comments

26504.

Do loud pipes save lives? (2021) (autoweek.com)

43 points by luu on Apr 6, 2024 | 91 comments

26505.

Birthrate in UK falls to record low as campaigners say 'procreation a luxury' (theguardian.com)

43 points by toomuchtodo on Feb 27, 2024 | 90 comments

26506.

Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change?

43 points by dinobones on Aug 23, 2024 | 90 comments

26507.

Smoking weed every day makes me less presentable and less productive. I love it (theguardian.com)

43 points by ciconia on May 29, 2024 | 89 comments

26508.

Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits (rockefeller.edu)

43 points by marc__1 on Sep 17, 2024 | 89 comments

26509.

Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy (bbc.com)

43 points by phantomathkg on Jun 12, 2024 | 87 comments

26510.

How have you found purpose in your life?

43 points by nativespecies on Feb 26, 2024 | 87 comments

26511.

The unreasonable effectiveness of VMs in hacker pedagogy (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

43 points by hiAndrewQuinn on Mar 31, 2024 | 85 comments

26512.

People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide (news.stanford.edu)

43 points by hbcondo714 on May 4, 2024 | 84 comments

26513.

Huawei claims HarmonyOS NEXT kernel is more efficient than Linux (notebookcheck.net)

43 points by radeeyate on Jan 21, 2024 | 84 comments

26514.

Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app (twitter.com)

43 points by archon810 on May 26, 2024 | 84 comments

26515.

AI will shrink workforces within five years, say company execs (cnn.com)

43 points by rntn on Apr 5, 2024 | 82 comments

26516.

Adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia on the Tibetan Plateau (sciencealert.com)

43 points by amichail on Oct 22, 2024 | 79 comments

26517.

Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise (lithub.com)

43 points by pepys on Sep 18, 2024 | 78 comments

26518.

Bill limits smartphone use in California schools (gov.ca.gov)

43 points by cloudking on Sep 23, 2024 | 76 comments

26519.

Are young people smarter than adults? Research shows differences diminishing (theconversation.com)

43 points by pseudolus on May 2, 2024 | 75 comments

26520.

Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why? (nytimes.com)

43 points by ctoth on Oct 12, 2024 | 73 comments