HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

21001.

The Top Programming Languages 2023 (spectrum.ieee.org)

81 points by jnord on Sep 11, 2023 | 129 comments

21002.

Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them (madison.com)

81 points by cainxinth on Nov 11, 2023 | 121 comments

21003.

SCOTUS to decide if public officials can block critics online (thefire.org)

81 points by fortran77 on Oct 30, 2023 | 120 comments

21004.

Linux being secure is a common misconception (madaidans-insecurities.github.io)

81 points by WallyFunk on Nov 26, 2023 | 118 comments

21005.

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity (leaddev.com)

81 points by RHSeeger on Oct 24, 2023 | 116 comments

21006.

Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in 300 hours (blog.physics-astronomy.com)

81 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 29, 2023 | 115 comments

21007.

Librem 5 USA Smartphone Provides Many Exclusive Security Features (puri.sm)

81 points by fsflover on May 10, 2023 | 115 comments

21008.

Ask HN: Refusing all cookies, still targeted by ads. How?

81 points by 2rsf on Jun 21, 2023 | 115 comments

21009.

Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December (wsj.com)

81 points by donohoe on Mar 6, 2023 | 114 comments

21010.

So I only ate potatoes for 2 weeks (petercai.com)

81 points by squidhunter on Apr 5, 2023 | 114 comments

21011.

Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach (thisisunpacked.substack.com)

81 points by viggybala on Jul 12, 2023 | 112 comments

21012.

America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not a Coincidence (theatlantic.com)

81 points by chapulin on Nov 14, 2023 | 110 comments

21013.

Many soft contact lenses in US made up of PFAS, research suggests (theguardian.com)

81 points by fhaltmayer on May 15, 2023 | 109 comments

21014.

Amazon will cut 'several hundred' Alexa jobs as it ends unspecified initiatives (geekwire.com)

81 points by dmschulman on Nov 17, 2023 | 109 comments

21015.

Wage transparency: Everyone’s happy except HR? (malaymail.com)

81 points by pg_1234 on Sep 5, 2023 | 106 comments

21016.

ChatGPT is powered by contractors making $15 an hour (nbcnews.com)

81 points by marban on May 7, 2023 | 106 comments

21017.

Former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan (peace-tourism.com)

81 points by ZeljkoS on Mar 31, 2023 | 105 comments

21018.

Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development? (mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl)

81 points by andsoitis on Nov 22, 2023 | 105 comments

21019.

Show HN: Prompt Engineering Jobs (prompt-engineering-jobs.com)

81 points by Oras on Apr 2, 2023 | 102 comments

21020.

One robber baron’s gamble on railroads (smithsonianmag.com)

81 points by samclemens on Sep 24, 2023 | 102 comments

21021.

Pip and cargo are not the same (blog.williammanley.net)

81 points by pabs3 on Jan 26, 2023 | 101 comments

21022.

X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)

81 points by skilled on Sep 8, 2023 | 100 comments

21023.

Ask HN: What's your approach to raising kids?

81 points by jascination on Jan 30, 2023 | 99 comments

21024.

HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year (tomshardware.com)

81 points by ms512 on Apr 15, 2023 | 99 comments

21025.

French authorities label Vitamin D as endocrine disruptor (nutraingredients.com)

81 points by bookofjoe on Nov 19, 2023 | 99 comments

21026.

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4 (notebookcheck.net)

81 points by sydney6 on Nov 1, 2023 | 96 comments

21027.

Meta’s approach of ‘pay for your privacy’ is wrong (tuta.com)

81 points by grammers on Nov 20, 2023 | 96 comments

21028.

South Korea Will Police 'Shrinkflation' at the Supermarket (wsj.com)

81 points by gnicholas on Dec 21, 2023 | 95 comments

21029.

Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected? (arxiv.org)

81 points by rntn on Mar 21, 2023 | 94 comments

21030.

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster (theregister.com)

81 points by LinuxBender on May 25, 2023 | 94 comments