HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2491.

Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor (washingtonpost.com)

1011 points by CartyBoston on Nov 22, 2023 | 746 comments

2492.

We Need Chrome No More (redalemeden.com)

1011 points by kaishin on Feb 27, 2019 | 518 comments

2493.

24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (randomascii.wordpress.com)

1011 points by joebaf on Jul 10, 2017 | 499 comments

2494.

Things I wished more developers knew about databases (medium.com)

1011 points by zdw on Apr 22, 2020 | 445 comments

2495.

“This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)

1011 points by MBCook 3 months ago | 380 comments

2496.

AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor (audiomass.co)

1011 points by zaiste on May 28, 2020 | 181 comments

2497.

Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says (nytimes.com)

1011 points by uptown on Sep 28, 2015 | 178 comments

2498.

Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges

1010 points by Carrok on Jul 21, 2022 | 523 comments

2499.

Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31 (developer.apple.com)

1010 points by ezhik_ on Oct 6, 2021 | 498 comments

2500.

CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative (calyxos.org)

1010 points by ssklash on Aug 6, 2021 | 477 comments

2501.

Criticizing Google got me fired (washingtonpost.com)

1010 points by pyrophane on Aug 31, 2017 | 440 comments

2502.

HN is up again

1010 points by tpmx on Jul 8, 2022 | 366 comments

2503.

“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” (twitter.com)

1010 points by linksbro on Mar 8, 2021 | 312 comments

2504.

Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end (github.com)

1010 points by bennylope on May 7, 2019 | 148 comments

2505.

Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE (matthewtejo.substack.com)

1009 points by mtejo on Nov 22, 2022 | 1351 comments

2506.

I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks (theguardian.com)

1009 points by n1b0m on Mar 19, 2025 | 826 comments

2507.

Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] (youtube.com)

1009 points by kregasaurusrex on Jun 14, 2021 | 309 comments

2508.

Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team (diracdeltas.github.io)

1009 points by xenophonf on Dec 15, 2016 | 280 comments

2509.

Getting better at Linux with mini-projects (carltheperson.com)

1009 points by carltheperson on Feb 2, 2021 | 120 comments

2510.

Aaron, 5 years later (bensw.com)

1009 points by bensw on Jan 13, 2018 | 108 comments

2511.

Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead (nytimes.com)

1008 points by ramraj07 on May 1, 2023 | 1184 comments

2512.

Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? (bbc.com)

1008 points by vanusa on May 17, 2021 | 637 comments

2513.

Brave launches 1.0 (brave.com)

1008 points by etr71115 on Nov 13, 2019 | 630 comments

2514.

VR (blog.ycombinator.com)

1008 points by craigcannon on Jan 13, 2017 | 550 comments

2515.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)

1008 points by JaimeThompson on Mar 30, 2025 | 467 comments

2516.

How to Do Great Work (paulgraham.com)

1008 points by razin on Jul 1, 2023 | 431 comments

2517.

LastPass autofill exploit (labs.detectify.com)

1008 points by detectify on Jul 27, 2016 | 420 comments

2518.

Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says (cbc.ca)