HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Losing my son (fortressofdoors.com)

2437 points by lukeplato on Jan 18, 2024 | 396 comments

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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union (apple.com)

2108 points by colinhb on Jan 25, 2024 | 2486 comments

3.

In loving memory of square checkbox (tonsky.me)

1967 points by kevingadd on Jan 28, 2024 | 505 comments

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Niklaus Wirth has died (twitter.com)

1902 points by aarroyoc on Jan 3, 2024 | 403 comments

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What's that touchscreen in my room? (laplab.me)

1890 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 20, 2024 | 560 comments

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1D Pac-Man (abagames.github.io)

1790 points by memalign on Jan 2, 2024 | 229 comments

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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source (zed.dev)

1576 points by FeroTheFox on Jan 24, 2024 | 602 comments

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I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy (amazon.com)

1325 points by edward on Jan 12, 2024 | 737 comments

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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017) (english.stackexchange.com)

1220 points by flexagoon on Jan 17, 2024 | 289 comments

10.

Infinite Craft (neal.fun)

1177 points by kretaceous on Jan 31, 2024 | 675 comments

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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT (tonybaloney.github.io)

1081 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 9, 2024 | 521 comments

12.

I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously (mrbruh.com)

1081 points by MrBruh on Jan 9, 2024 | 474 comments

13.

An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020) (robinsloan.com)

1051 points by distcs on Jan 5, 2024 | 288 comments

14.

Fixing Macs door to door (matduggan.com)

1033 points by jnord on Jan 5, 2024 | 203 comments

15.

Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

1027 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Jan 12, 2024 | 357 comments

16.

Polars (pola.rs)

981 points by tosh on Jan 8, 2024 | 386 comments

17.

Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling (sitinshade.com)

963 points by Amithv on Jan 17, 2024 | 210 comments

18.

Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone (clicks.tech)

953 points by guyinblackshirt on Jan 4, 2024 | 543 comments

19.

US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission (macrumors.com)

911 points by virgildotcodes on Jan 16, 2024 | 1300 comments

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FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising (cnn.com)

879 points by fairytalemtg on Jan 23, 2024 | 253 comments

21.

Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions (nytimes.com)

862 points by gumby on Jan 11, 2024 | 1266 comments

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FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s (cnbc.com)

861 points by ephesee on Jan 6, 2024 | 838 comments

23.

Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client (github.com)

853 points by keepamovin on Jan 20, 2024 | 631 comments

24.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds (bloomberg.com)

848 points by simula67 on Jan 18, 2024 | 579 comments

25.

Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video] (youtube.com)

846 points by Philpax on Jan 1, 2024 | 248 comments

26.

Pandoc (pandoc.org)

824 points by swatson741 on Jan 28, 2024 | 292 comments

27.

Disney unveils the HoloTile floor (ign.com)

823 points by wallflower on Jan 27, 2024 | 294 comments

28.

Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…) (nino.app)

810 points by harrisonlo on Jan 7, 2024 | 258 comments

29.

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit (aftermath.site)

805 points by thinkingemote on Jan 11, 2024 | 587 comments

30.

I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions (twitter.com)

774 points by aa_is_op on Jan 25, 2024 | 254 comments