HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1771.

Y2K – why I know it was a real problem (2015) (clarotesting.wordpress.com)

49 points by petesergeant on Jan 7, 2025 | 28 comments

1772.

Frequent social media use tied to higher levels of irritability (medicalxpress.com)

49 points by Jimmc414 on Jan 23, 2025 | 22 comments

1773.

Total Chaos at Meta: Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes (404media.co)

49 points by ghostpepper on Jan 10, 2025 | 19 comments

1774.

Show HN: I recovered one of my earliest ZX-Spectrum games from an audio cassette

49 points by codeguppy on Jan 25, 2025 | 17 comments

1775.

Oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm (apnews.com)

49 points by geox on Jan 31, 2025 | 10 comments

1776.

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (github.com)

49 points by rcarmo on Jan 6, 2025 | 6 comments

1777.

Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift (axios.com)

48 points by ecliptik on Jan 6, 2025 | 103 comments

1778.

Google Maps in the US Will Change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley (theverge.com)

48 points by Fake4d on Jan 28, 2025 | 73 comments

1779.

Freeze on grant funding temporarily halted by federal judge (bloomberg.com)

48 points by anigbrowl on Jan 28, 2025 | 53 comments

1780.

DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls (vincentschmalbach.com)

48 points by vincent_s on Jan 23, 2025 | 50 comments

1781.

Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer (workflow86.com)

48 points by taaron on Jan 30, 2025 | 45 comments

1782.

Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI (battlefieldanomalies.com)

48 points by mooreds on Jan 5, 2025 | 42 comments

1783.

Why is Ashburn the data center capital of the world? (datacenters.com)

48 points by akshatjiwan on Jan 13, 2025 | 42 comments

1784.

US Supreme Court curbed public scrutiny as it boosted security before Roe ruling (theguardian.com)

48 points by rntn on Jan 12, 2025 | 37 comments

1785.

The Impact of 25% Tariffs on Canadian GDP (stephaniekelton.substack.com)

48 points by imichael on Jan 28, 2025 | 32 comments

1786.

Unconventional Adventures (quarter--mile.com)

48 points by surprisetalk on Jan 20, 2025 | 14 comments

1787.

LoongArch64 Subjective Higlights (0x80.pl)

48 points by camel-cdr on Jan 22, 2025 | 13 comments

1788.

The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm (hudsonreview.com)

48 points by prismatic on Jan 8, 2025 | 9 comments

1789.

Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace (nytimes.com)

48 points by harporoeder on Jan 22, 2025 | 3 comments

1790.

Wash. Post Cartoonist Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece (thewrap.com)

48 points by healsdata on Jan 4, 2025 | 2 comments

1791.

CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music (404media.co)

47 points by detaro on Jan 13, 2025 | 94 comments

1792.

Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? (economist.com)

47 points by feyman_r on Jan 14, 2025 | 91 comments

1793.

Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)

47 points by jgalt212 on Jan 16, 2025 | 78 comments

1794.

Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? (newyorker.com)

47 points by fortran77 on Jan 23, 2025 | 69 comments

1795.

The Adrian Dittmann Story (maia.crimew.gay)

47 points by usdogu on Jan 5, 2025 | 49 comments

1796.

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' (theregister.com)

47 points by jjgreen on Jan 5, 2025 | 35 comments

1797.

How is my Browser blocking RWX execution? (rwxstoned.github.io)

47 points by lucasRW on Jan 5, 2025 | 33 comments

1798.

The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model (wiremock.io)

47 points by hackeruse on Jan 20, 2025 | 32 comments

1799.

Milan prohibits all outdoor smoking as ban takes effect (rte.ie)

47 points by austinallegro on Jan 1, 2025 | 22 comments

1800.

Reverse Engineering a VanMoof E-Shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the Signals (mikecoats.com)

47 points by jandeboevrie on Jan 15, 2025 | 21 comments