HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20671.

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds (theguardian.com)

83 points by kumarski on Sep 21, 2023 | 73 comments

20672.

Namecheap is buying and holding onto domains you're interested in? (old.reddit.com)

83 points by satvikpendem on Mar 28, 2023 | 72 comments

20673.

Square is down (issquareup.com)

83 points by philip1209 on Sep 7, 2023 | 72 comments

20674.

AI is coming to Hollywood with Metaphysic (metaphysic.ai)

83 points by tikkun on Feb 2, 2023 | 70 comments

20675.

Show HN: Python can make 3M+ WebSocket keys per second (github.com)

83 points by cprogrammer1994 on Jul 3, 2023 | 70 comments

20676.

Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? (bostonglobe.com)

83 points by thunderbong on Aug 23, 2023 | 70 comments

20677.

Child labor in chocolate industry: 'It is worse than you may realize' (theguardian.com)

83 points by gardenfelder on Oct 30, 2023 | 69 comments

20678.

Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for southern California (cnn.com)

83 points by LinuxBender on Aug 20, 2023 | 68 comments

20679.

Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020 (9to5mac.com)

83 points by alwillis on Sep 28, 2023 | 68 comments

20680.

TSMC Outlines 2nm Plans: N2P Brings Backside Power Delivery in 2026, N2X Added (anandtech.com)

83 points by rbanffy on Apr 27, 2023 | 67 comments

20681.

I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately (twitter.com)

83 points by DaNmarner on May 26, 2023 | 67 comments

20682.

Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (2012) (dl.acm.org)

83 points by ecliptik on Nov 14, 2023 | 67 comments

20683.

Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance (texasmonthly.com)

83 points by lode on May 26, 2023 | 66 comments

20684.

Engineers develop a process to make formate fuel from CO2 (news.mit.edu)

83 points by westurner on Oct 31, 2023 | 66 comments

20685.

How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered (youtube.com)

83 points by robinhouston on Aug 3, 2023 | 65 comments

20686.

Employees in Asia are spending most time looking busy at work, says Slack report (cnbc.com)

83 points by josephh on Aug 15, 2023 | 65 comments

20687.

Rust is not the language for you if you don't like traits (github.com)

83 points by shantnutiwari on Oct 4, 2023 | 65 comments

20688.

That plum job listing may just be a ghost (wsj.com)

83 points by erehweb on Mar 20, 2023 | 64 comments

20689.

Google and Amazon Struggle to Lay Off Workers in Europe Due to Labor Laws (bloomberg.com)

83 points by helsinkiandrew on Apr 6, 2023 | 64 comments

20690.

You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription (theregister.com)

83 points by LinuxBender on Oct 6, 2023 | 64 comments

20691.

Economic Effects of State Bans on Direct Manufacturer Sales to Car Buyers [pdf] (justice.gov)

83 points by luu on Nov 25, 2023 | 64 comments

20692.

Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD (patmaddox.com)

83 points by signa11 on Dec 4, 2023 | 63 comments

20693.

Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (2015) (theecologist.org)

83 points by joveian on Jul 22, 2023 | 62 comments

20694.

The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement (propublica.org)

83 points by wiradikusuma on Jul 30, 2023 | 62 comments

20695.

The death of privacy front ends? (tux.pizza)

83 points by throwoutway on Jul 30, 2023 | 62 comments

20696.

The NSA Invented Bitcoin? (twitter.com)

83 points by wslh on Sep 21, 2023 | 61 comments

20697.

A 286 running like a 386? (2021) (dosdays.co.uk)

83 points by classichasclass on Jul 8, 2023 | 59 comments

20698.

Apple should re-release Safari for Windows (twitter.com)

83 points by cacozen on Sep 11, 2023 | 58 comments

20699.

Jarvis: A Voice Virtual Assistant in Python (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram) (github.com)

83 points by Alyx1337 on Dec 18, 2023 | 58 comments

20700.

A Spiritual Successor to Emacs (vivekhaldar.com)

83 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 19, 2023 | 57 comments