HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1681.

11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office (news.northwestern.edu)

83 points by geox on Nov 3, 2023 | 86 comments

1682.

WordPress plugins are a little sad? (chriscoyier.net)

83 points by surprisetalk on Nov 16, 2023 | 82 comments

1683.

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

1684.

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

1685.

Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (1980) (iasa-intl.com)

83 points by juliusdavies on Nov 29, 2023 | 57 comments

1686.

Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb (blog.josephofiowa.com)

83 points by steventey on Nov 8, 2023 | 54 comments

1687.

Charm has raised $6M in funding (charm.sh)

83 points by Cthulhu_ on Nov 3, 2023 | 50 comments

1688.

Translations of Russ Cox's Thompson NFA C Program to Rust (github.com)

83 points by asicsp on Nov 3, 2023 | 47 comments

1689.

Lemmings (leemeichin.com)

83 points by ljm on Nov 10, 2023 | 46 comments

1690.

Enterprise-Fu (mike.daless.io)

83 points by luu on Nov 2, 2023 | 42 comments

1691.

UK plans to redefine extremism to include undermining the country (theguardian.com)

83 points by intunderflow on Nov 4, 2023 | 36 comments

1692.

Show HN: A game to memorize scale degrees on the guitar fretboard (fretboardfly.com)

83 points by udit99 on Nov 24, 2023 | 36 comments

1693.

OCapN, Interoperable Capabilities over the Network (spritely.institute)

83 points by davexunit on Nov 16, 2023 | 17 comments

1694.

Propaganda or Science: Open-Source AI and Bioterrorism Risk (1a3orn.com)

83 points by 1a3orn on Nov 2, 2023 | 15 comments

1695.

Old engineering simulation games, now open source [pdf] (github.com)

83 points by fifteenth on Nov 17, 2023 | 12 comments

1696.

Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure (theguardian.com)

83 points by apollinaire on Nov 23, 2023 | 10 comments

1697.

What are Transformer Models and how do they work? [video] (youtube.com)

83 points by luis_likes_math on Nov 6, 2023 | 3 comments

1698.

AI Art Generators Can Be Fooled into Making NSFW Images (spectrum.ieee.org)

82 points by thunderbong on Nov 25, 2023 | 170 comments

1699.

Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment) (community.signalusers.org)

82 points by mindracer on Nov 8, 2023 | 103 comments

1700.

SoftBank paid $1.5B to WeWork lenders days before bankruptcy (ft.com)

82 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 8, 2023 | 68 comments

1701.

OpenAI Shoves a Data Journalist and Violates Federal Law (aarongreenspan.substack.com)

82 points by thinkcomp on Nov 22, 2023 | 48 comments

1702.

Show HN: Roboco-op, a computational blackboard for efficient human/AI collab (observablehq.com)

82 points by tlarkworthy on Nov 7, 2023 | 27 comments

1703.

My keyboard wasn't mechanical enough, so I upgraded to a rotary phone (twitter.com)

82 points by aschmelyun on Nov 21, 2023 | 24 comments

1704.

PCIe vs. CXL for Memory and Storage (synopsys.com)

82 points by teleforce on Nov 3, 2023 | 20 comments

1705.

GPT-4 powers Copilot Chat (github.blog)

82 points by atgctg on Nov 8, 2023 | 19 comments

1706.

What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting Europe's antitrust rules (theregister.com)

82 points by PaulHoule on Nov 23, 2023 | 12 comments

1707.

OpenZFS Lands Raidz Expansion Feature (phoronix.com)

82 points by ksec on Nov 9, 2023 | 6 comments

1708.

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

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

1709.

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

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

1710.

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

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