HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org)

1085 points by nkurz on Apr 29, 2016 | 381 comments

1982.

Get Started Making Music (learningmusic.ableton.com)

1085 points by capableweb on Sep 13, 2019 | 184 comments

1983.

Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

1084 points by yarapavan on May 6, 2020 | 815 comments

1984.

Common mistakes in PostgreSQL (wiki.postgresql.org)

1084 points by kawera on May 3, 2019 | 253 comments

1985.

My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (medium.com)

1084 points by wbharding on Jun 23, 2014 | 252 comments

1986.

John C. Bogle Has Died (wsj.com)

1084 points by gdubs on Jan 16, 2019 | 200 comments

1987.

Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

1083 points by whoishiring on Mar 23, 2020 | 784 comments

1988.

Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code (kite.com)

1083 points by dynamicwebpaige on Nov 20, 2022 | 528 comments

1989.

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project (theverge.com)

1083 points by gkolli on Oct 11, 2019 | 343 comments

1990.

Quick, Draw (quickdraw.withgoogle.com)

1083 points by madmax108 on Nov 16, 2016 | 328 comments

1991.

Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser (googleresearch.blogspot.com)

1083 points by cjdulberger on May 12, 2016 | 235 comments

1992.

FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident (coindesk.com)

1082 points by mcone on Nov 30, 2022 | 569 comments

1993.

Librarian's Letter to Google Security (docs.google.com)

1082 points by 2352500 on Aug 1, 2022 | 461 comments

1994.

An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning (github.com)

1082 points by yewenjie on Aug 7, 2021 | 430 comments

1995.

New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs (predictors.fail)

1082 points by cylo on Jan 28, 2025 | 350 comments

1996.

Use a work journal (fev.al)

1082 points by charles_f on Jul 13, 2024 | 293 comments

1997.

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available (academictorrents.com)

1082 points by jacquesm on Aug 12, 2018 | 140 comments

1998.

Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)

1081 points by tosh 2 months ago | 693 comments

1999.

Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver (theglobeandmail.com)

1081 points by ericzawo on Dec 5, 2018 | 586 comments

2000.

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

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

2001.

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

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

2002.

Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

1081 points by sureklix on Apr 5, 2020 | 280 comments

2003.

Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

1081 points by justanton on Oct 13, 2016 | 171 comments

2004.

Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo (blog.ycombinator.com)

1080 points by cbcowans on Aug 15, 2017 | 1501 comments

2005.

Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro (macrumors.com)

1080 points by antipaul on Nov 12, 2020 | 1137 comments

2006.

Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag (dell.com)

1080 points by bestouff on Sep 24, 2021 | 879 comments

2007.

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] (djm.cc)

1080 points by Pamar on Apr 20, 2017 | 189 comments

2008.

Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (worrydream.com)

1080 points by siavosh on Sep 26, 2012 | 183 comments

2009.

I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track (delu.medium.com)

1080 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 26, 2020 | 149 comments

2010.

A Letter to the American People (18f.org)

1079 points by erentz on Mar 1, 2025 | 533 comments