HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4441.

14m trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms (2020) (heraldscotland.com)

16 points by freedude on Aug 7, 2023 | 16 comments

4442.

Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes (garymarcus.substack.com)

16 points by nsoonhui on Aug 20, 2023 | 16 comments

4443.

The Industrial Revolution That Almost Was (2022) (etiennefd.substack.com)

16 points by Thevet on Aug 3, 2023 | 14 comments

4444.

Next-gen AMD RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly won't compete with Nvidia at the high end (pcgamer.com)

16 points by belltaco on Aug 5, 2023 | 12 comments

4445.

Ask HN: Is it still worth doing Red Hat certs?

16 points by dextersgenius on Aug 11, 2023 | 12 comments

4446.

YouTube is testing new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to skip (searchengineland.com)

16 points by DemiGuru on Aug 22, 2023 | 12 comments

4447.

My husband just retired. I’m scared to death of running out of money (washingtonpost.com)

16 points by wallflower on Aug 26, 2023 | 12 comments

4448.

The great cancellation: why megabucks TV shows are vanishing without a trace (theguardian.com)

16 points by mgbmtl on Aug 30, 2023 | 12 comments

4449.

How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’ (theguardian.com)

16 points by pseudolus on Aug 11, 2023 | 11 comments

4450.

More young Americans are dying – and it's not Covid (usatoday.com)

16 points by johntfella on Aug 13, 2023 | 11 comments

4451.

Mystery of Entropy Finally Solved After 50 Years (Stephen Wolfram) (youtube.com)

16 points by quick_brown_fox on Aug 15, 2023 | 11 comments

4452.

American Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case (racket.news)

16 points by walterbell on Aug 24, 2023 | 11 comments

4453.

AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory [video] (ted.com)

16 points by anitakirkovska on Aug 28, 2023 | 11 comments

4454.

Owner gives up 2 big S.F. hotels expects city’s recovery to take up to 7 years (sfchronicle.com)

16 points by latchkey on Aug 6, 2023 | 10 comments

4455.

The Case For – and Against – Apple Shipping a Larger iMac (512pixels.net)

16 points by ingve on Aug 25, 2023 | 10 comments

4456.

Ancient Popcorn (2012) (si.edu)

16 points by glth on Aug 26, 2023 | 10 comments

4457.

A 40-ton organ sits under City Hall. San Francisco is trying to give it away (sfchronicle.com)

16 points by gardenfelder on Aug 31, 2023 | 9 comments

4458.

Musk's X seizes Music handle. Owner is understandably pissed (mashable.com)

16 points by pg_1234 on Aug 5, 2023 | 8 comments

4459.

A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs. unknown impact (cnbc.com)

16 points by paulpauper on Aug 7, 2023 | 8 comments

4460.

Heineken sells its Russian operations for 1 euro, taking a 300M-euro hit (abcnews.go.com)

16 points by pg_1234 on Aug 25, 2023 | 8 comments

4461.

Not everything is secret in encrypted apps like iMessage and WhatsApp (washingtonpost.com)

16 points by gslin on Aug 27, 2023 | 8 comments

4462.

Teamwork environments linked to white US employees going the extra mile (phys.org)

16 points by gnarbarian on Aug 4, 2023 | 7 comments

4463.

RV-Cure: A RISC-V Capability Architecture for Full Memory Safety (arxiv.org)

16 points by hasheddan on Aug 10, 2023 | 7 comments

4464.

Interview: Francis Ford Coppola (2012) (therumpus.net)

16 points by veer on Aug 23, 2023 | 7 comments

4465.

Musk Buys Ai.com from OpenAI (aidigitalnews.com)

16 points by birriel on Aug 2, 2023 | 6 comments

4466.

CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta (cbc.ca)

16 points by empressplay on Aug 8, 2023 | 6 comments

4467.

The Case Against Quantum Computing (spectrum.ieee.org)

16 points by haltingproblem on Aug 17, 2023 | 6 comments

4468.

China promised climate action. Its emissions topped US, EU, India combined (aljazeera.com)

16 points by nradov on Aug 30, 2023 | 6 comments

4469.

Show HN: I Relaunched, Blink – Your Personal Amazon Shopping Assistant (blink-ai.vercel.app)

16 points by aviavinash on Aug 2, 2023 | 5 comments

4470.

The magical math behind Disney's content purge (levernews.com)

16 points by anigbrowl on Aug 3, 2023 | 5 comments