HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

Aaron Swartz commits suicide (tech.mit.edu)

2103 points by bfaviero on Jan 12, 2013 | 546 comments

212.

Ken Thompson's Unix Password (leahneukirchen.org)

2101 points by stargrave on Oct 9, 2019 | 637 comments

213.

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (medium.com)

2101 points by jamesjyu on Feb 7, 2019 | 353 comments

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Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry (twitter.com)

2095 points by treexs 2 months ago | 1022 comments

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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users (9to5google.com)

2093 points by estranhosidade on May 29, 2019 | 877 comments

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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US (bbc.com)

2091 points by ews on Jun 23, 2021 | 1086 comments

217.

Google is shutting down Stadia (theverge.com)

2090 points by vyrotek on Sep 29, 2022 | 1712 comments

218.

DeepSeek v4 (api-docs.deepseek.com)

2090 points by impact_sy 1 month ago | 1607 comments

219.

Remembering Bob Lee

2090 points by aEJ04Izw5HYm on Apr 5, 2023 | 217 comments

220.

Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke (propublica.org)

2088 points by r0h1n on Feb 5, 2015 | 453 comments

221.

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report (dropsitenews.com)

2084 points by Qem 3 months ago | 997 comments

222.

GitHub Sponsors (github.com)

2082 points by Heliosmaster on May 23, 2019 | 501 comments

223.

Deno 1.0 (deno.land)

2081 points by 0xedb on May 13, 2020 | 583 comments

224.

Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

2080 points by ksec 8 months ago | 933 comments

225.

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday (typesense.org)

2075 points by karterk on Jul 14, 2021 | 579 comments

226.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)

2074 points by weatherlight on May 7, 2018 | 310 comments

227.

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (hugotunius.se)

2071 points by K0nserv 9 months ago | 1202 comments

228.

GPT-5 (openai.com)

2063 points by rd 10 months ago | 2482 comments

229.

Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional (aclu.org)

2063 points by coloneltcb on Nov 12, 2019 | 580 comments

230.

Today is The Day We Fight Back (thedaywefightback.org)

2061 points by brokenparser on Feb 11, 2014 | 258 comments

231.

Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. (ycombinator.com)

2060 points by dzlobin on Jan 20, 2012 | 665 comments

232.

Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard (news.microsoft.com)

2051 points by totablebanjo on Jan 18, 2022 | 1353 comments

233.

Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

2051 points by Uptrenda on Jul 21, 2022 | 753 comments

234.

Ubuntu on Windows (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

2049 points by bpierre on Mar 30, 2016 | 901 comments

235.

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B (news.microsoft.com)

2049 points by whatok on Jun 13, 2016 | 833 comments

236.

Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities (habr.com)

2049 points by jayhoon on Sep 24, 2021 | 456 comments

237.

Meta lays off 11,000 people (about.fb.com)

2048 points by technics256 on Nov 9, 2022 | 1977 comments

238.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)