HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1951.

The metaverse is bullshit (outline.com)

1031 points by Stevvo on Oct 30, 2021 | 747 comments

1952.

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

1031 points by Jtsummers on Feb 22, 2024 | 424 comments

1953.

An off-grid social network (staltz.com)

1031 points by staltz on Apr 6, 2017 | 366 comments

1954.

China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week (reuters.com)

1030 points by extesy on Aug 30, 2021 | 1053 comments

1955.

Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

1030 points by trianx on May 25, 2020 | 649 comments

1956.

JMAP – a modern email open standard (jmap.io)

1030 points by tambourine_man on May 30, 2023 | 361 comments

1957.

“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files” (seafile.de)

1030 points by zolder on Jun 21, 2016 | 340 comments

1958.

1-on-1 meeting questions (github.com)

1030 points by yankit on Feb 16, 2020 | 296 comments

1959.

TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands (code.google.com)

1030 points by tptacek on Jan 11, 2016 | 229 comments

1960.

Farewell, Dr. Dobb's (drdobbs.com)

1029 points by andrewbinstock on Dec 16, 2014 | 320 comments

1961.

Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate (galaxus.ch)

1029 points by faebi on Jan 26, 2023 | 272 comments

1962.

How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way (maia.crimew.gay)

1028 points by half-kh-hacker on Jan 19, 2023 | 619 comments

1963.

GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering? (twitter.com)

1028 points by agomez314 on Jun 30, 2021 | 459 comments

1964.

My $500M Mars rover mistake (chrislewicki.com)

1028 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 28, 2023 | 343 comments

1965.

Firefox address bar (wiki.tilde.institute)

1028 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 10, 2023 | 317 comments

1966.

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge (tylervigen.com)

1028 points by graypegg on Sep 2, 2023 | 264 comments

1967.

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize (theguardian.com)

1028 points by ahjones on Jan 29, 2014 | 191 comments

1968.

Google Beatbox (translate.google.com)

1028 points by shomyo on Nov 29, 2010 | 96 comments

1969.

MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools (hacker-tools.github.io)

1028 points by anishathalye on Feb 4, 2019 | 79 comments

1970.

The dystopian world of software engineering interviews (jarednelsen.dev)

1027 points by asangha on Feb 15, 2020 | 811 comments

1971.

MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester (web.mit.edu)

1027 points by ryeights on Mar 10, 2020 | 586 comments

1972.

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

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

1973.

How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? (physics.stackexchange.com)

1027 points by williamsmj 10 months ago | 195 comments

1974.

Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw (bloomberg.com)

1026 points by el_duderino on Jan 3, 2018 | 543 comments

1975.

It's A(door)able (ncase.me)

1026 points by michaelbrooks on May 3, 2023 | 114 comments

1976.

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)

1025 points by mbrubeck on Mar 5, 2024 | 638 comments

1977.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

1025 points by baron816 on Jul 6, 2023 | 614 comments

1978.

Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)