HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

22141.

What happens if you plug two USB-C laptops into each other using a USB-C cable (twitter.com)

76 points by tosh on Jan 19, 2023 | 85 comments

22142.

Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it (theconversation.com)

76 points by zdw on Nov 13, 2023 | 85 comments

22143.

Americans Are Pulling Cash from Their Retirement Savings to Pay Bills (bloomberg.com)

76 points by marifi on Nov 29, 2023 | 83 comments

22144.

Helping mentally ill people in the Philippines (2022) (zeit.de)

76 points by Tomte on Feb 4, 2023 | 82 comments

22145.

Railroad "Time Zones" of the United States (1868) (cprr.org)

76 points by jlkuester7 on Oct 11, 2023 | 82 comments

22146.

Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (theguardian.com)

76 points by bookofjoe on Sep 13, 2023 | 81 comments

22147.

To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine (nytimes.com)

76 points by ingve on Jun 13, 2023 | 80 comments

22148.

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their 'app of the year' (techcrunch.com)

76 points by my12parsecs on Nov 30, 2023 | 80 comments

22149.

Jimmy Carter: Unlucky President, Lucky Man (fallows.substack.com)

76 points by chmaynard on Feb 22, 2023 | 79 comments

22150.

I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (2015) (old.reddit.com)

76 points by throw0101b on Jun 15, 2023 | 78 comments

22151.

Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack (techcrunch.com)

76 points by jhoelzel on Aug 24, 2023 | 78 comments

22152.

The end of the Silicon Valley dream (spectator.co.uk)

76 points by Veen on Jun 4, 2023 | 77 comments

22153.

Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer (tiblur.com)

76 points by max_hammer on Sep 18, 2023 | 76 comments

22154.

A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef (nautil.us)

76 points by dnetesn on Oct 12, 2023 | 76 comments

22155.

The whale fact chapters in Moby-Dick are among the most memorable (countercraft.substack.com)

76 points by samclemens on Dec 12, 2023 | 76 comments

22156.

Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban (wionews.com)

76 points by malshe on Mar 30, 2023 | 75 comments

22157.

“Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means (changelog.com)

76 points by thunderbong on Sep 6, 2023 | 75 comments

22158.

Duo Outage (status.duo.com)

76 points by davewritescode on Aug 21, 2023 | 75 comments

22159.

Subsidies Awarded to Tesla Inc: at least $2,829,855,494 and Counting (subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org)

76 points by mrtksn on Oct 2, 2023 | 75 comments

22160.

This is a Chord (2016) (tumblr.austinkleon.com)

76 points by brudgers on Mar 30, 2023 | 74 comments

22161.

Carmakers Plan to Make Basic Features Subscription, Despite Widespread Backlash (techdirt.com)

76 points by rntn on Dec 5, 2023 | 73 comments

22162.

Sam Altman tweet after being fired (twitter.com)

76 points by evilai on Nov 17, 2023 | 72 comments

22163.

SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and NPM packages (bleepingcomputer.com)

76 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 10, 2023 | 68 comments

22164.

Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs from anyone's cells (npr.org)

76 points by lxm on Jul 16, 2023 | 67 comments

22165.

People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up (text.npr.org)

76 points by rntn on Aug 30, 2023 | 66 comments

22166.

Bethesda’s Redfall needs to be online for single-player mode (arstechnica.com)

76 points by evo_9 on Feb 2, 2023 | 65 comments

22167.

Solar on Warehouses (environmentamerica.org)

76 points by ZeroGravitas on Apr 23, 2023 | 65 comments

22168.

Why Kundera never went home (compactmag.com)

76 points by mutant_glofish on Aug 1, 2023 | 65 comments

22169.

No Magnets, Big Power: BMW’s Fifth-Generation Electric Motor (2022) (motortrend.com)

76 points by clouddrover on Mar 3, 2023 | 64 comments

22170.

What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (2013) (spectrum.ieee.org)

76 points by tosh on Jun 18, 2023 | 63 comments