HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2011.

OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin (maraoz.com)

1079 points by maraoz on Jul 18, 2020 | 526 comments

2012.

The UX on this small child is terrible (mcsweeneys.net)

1079 points by gumby on Jan 4, 2022 | 357 comments

2013.

Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch (nakst.gitlab.io)

1079 points by nbaksalyar on Jan 15, 2022 | 290 comments

2014.

Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week (s-poony.github.io)

1079 points by lovasoa on Jan 9, 2019 | 270 comments

2015.

Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles (news.sciencemag.org)

1079 points by philip1209 on Nov 24, 2014 | 147 comments

2016.

Major AWS Outage Happening (old.reddit.com)

1079 points by vvoyer 6 months ago | 12 comments

2017.

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine (bloomberg.com)

1078 points by tempsy on Jan 27, 2021 | 1148 comments

2018.

That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people (techinasia.com)

1078 points by nkurz on Mar 23, 2016 | 567 comments

2019.

Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (esa.int)

1078 points by rbanffy on Apr 29, 2024 | 301 comments

2020.

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (indieweb.org)

1078 points by 47thpresident 4 months ago | 248 comments

2021.

Astral (astral.sh)

1078 points by hasheddan on Apr 18, 2023 | 236 comments

2022.

Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now (twitter.com)

1077 points by sanketpatrikar on Dec 18, 2022 | 1023 comments

2023.

Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder (lunduke.locals.com)

1077 points by mapper32 on Jul 2, 2024 | 744 comments

2024.

92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people (reddit.com)

1077 points by DeusExMachina on May 13, 2020 | 626 comments

2025.

Vouch (github.com)

1077 points by chwtutha 2 months ago | 486 comments

2026.

Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs? (neil.computer)

1077 points by neilpanchal on Jun 4, 2022 | 485 comments

2027.

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth (bbc.com)

1077 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 387 comments

2028.

Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare (nomdebebe.app)

1077 points by hamaluik on Nov 5, 2021 | 372 comments

2029.

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm (nitrokey.com)

1077 points by h1x on Apr 25, 2023 | 330 comments

2030.

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent (techcrunch.com)

1077 points by pseudolus on May 31, 2019 | 224 comments

2031.

Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon (reuters.com)

1076 points by logicchains on Sep 17, 2024 | 2528 comments

2032.

Gemini 2.5 Flash (developers.googleblog.com)

1076 points by meetpateltech on Apr 17, 2025 | 560 comments

2033.

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars (ludic.mataroa.blog)

1076 points by softskunk on Oct 30, 2023 | 460 comments

2034.

Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops (social.hackerspace.pl)

1076 points by miki123211 on Dec 5, 2023 | 360 comments

2035.

No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains (blog.transitapp.com)

1076 points by dotcoma on Nov 13, 2024 | 317 comments

2036.

Intentionally making close friends (neelnanda.io)

1076 points by yamrzou on Nov 28, 2022 | 307 comments

2037.

Zero-day in Sign in with Apple (bhavukjain.com)

1076 points by masnick on May 30, 2020 | 267 comments

2038.

Apple M3 Ultra (apple.com)

1075 points by ksec on Mar 5, 2025 | 1027 comments

2039.

Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client (apple.com)

1075 points by briandear on Jun 27, 2019 | 834 comments

2040.

John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories (m.facebook.com)

1075 points by _mlxl on May 14, 2018 | 366 comments