HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20251.

Write Free Software (writefreesoftware.org)

85 points by stargrave on Jun 19, 2023 | 98 comments

20252.

My thoughts on “bad code” (twitter.com)

85 points by djoldman on Mar 17, 2023 | 97 comments

20253.

Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss (dynomight.net)

85 points by red369 on Jul 19, 2023 | 96 comments

20254.

Institutionalized Belief in the Greater Fool (investing1012dot0.substack.com)

85 points by Palmik on Aug 13, 2023 | 95 comments

20255.

Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often (utcc.utoronto.ca)

85 points by zdw on Jan 15, 2023 | 94 comments

20256.

The Heart of ChatGPT's Darkness (cacm.acm.org)

85 points by zdw on Feb 13, 2023 | 94 comments

20257.

Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot (bloomberg.com)

85 points by solar_warehouse on May 13, 2023 | 94 comments

20258.

No One Wants to Pay Anymore (medium.com)

85 points by underlipton on Nov 19, 2023 | 94 comments

20259.

When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability (science.org)

85 points by Stratoscope on Dec 25, 2023 | 94 comments

20260.

Longest-lasting incandescent light bulbs (en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by Vigier on Aug 4, 2023 | 93 comments

20261.

NRF retracts its assertion that organized retail crime led to 50% of losses (stateline.org)

85 points by pavel_lishin on Dec 20, 2023 | 93 comments

20262.

Monday Was the Hottest Day Ever as Global Temperatures Rise (bloomberg.com)

85 points by Brajeshwar on Jul 5, 2023 | 92 comments

20263.

The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter (arstechnica.com)

85 points by a-human on Feb 14, 2023 | 90 comments

20264.

How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them (news.mit.edu)

85 points by geox on Nov 2, 2023 | 90 comments

20265.

Programming as a career isn't right for me (medium.com)

85 points by safaa1993 on Nov 23, 2023 | 87 comments

20266.

Dumpster Diving FAQ (2004) (ranprieur.com)

85 points by thisismyswamp on Feb 27, 2023 | 86 comments

20267.

WY Union Says Court Ruling in Kroger–Albertson’s Merger Favors “Ultra-Wealthy” (cowboystatedaily.com)

85 points by indigodaddy on Jan 22, 2023 | 85 comments

20268.

Estimation isn’t for everyone (open.nytimes.com)

85 points by petercooper on Jun 15, 2023 | 85 comments

20269.

Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar (twitter.com)

85 points by smohnot on Aug 11, 2023 | 84 comments

20270.

The kids are not okay (thezvi.wordpress.com)

85 points by imgabe on Mar 22, 2023 | 82 comments

20271.

Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009) (wired.com)

85 points by rascul on Dec 7, 2023 | 80 comments

20272.

Certifications create wrong incentives for engineers and recruiters (interviewing.io)

85 points by leeny on Mar 14, 2023 | 79 comments

20273.

Some Useful Bash Aliases (2022) (chuck.is)

85 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 25, 2023 | 79 comments

20274.

ChatGPT for Android – Pre-orders (play.google.com)

85 points by myitis_ on Jul 21, 2023 | 76 comments

20275.

More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk (nytimes.com)

85 points by MilnerRoute on Nov 19, 2023 | 75 comments

20276.

DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub (github.com)

85 points by burundi_coffee on Feb 27, 2023 | 74 comments

20277.

Proposal: Less error-prone loop variable scoping (github.com)

85 points by yujian on May 11, 2023 | 73 comments

20278.

Twilight of the programmers? (danielbmarkham.com)

85 points by signa11 on Jun 23, 2023 | 71 comments

20279.

Keep your files inside your VM (msimkunas.lt)

85 points by exec1 on Aug 31, 2023 | 71 comments

20280.

Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms (quantamagazine.org)

85 points by nsoonhui on Sep 6, 2023 | 69 comments