HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12241.

The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI (wsj.com)

119 points by Philpax on Mar 29, 2025 | 115 comments

12242.

The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020) (library.hbs.edu)

119 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 112 comments

12243.

Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks (phoronix.com)

119 points by mikece 10 months ago | 112 comments

12244.

Palantir: The Most Evil Company (politicaleconomist.substack.com)

119 points by mgh2 9 months ago | 110 comments

12245.

One hundred and one rules of effective living (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

119 points by mathgenius 11 months ago | 109 comments

12246.

One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on (paperclover.net)

119 points by nnx 6 months ago | 104 comments

12247.

ClickHouse raises $350M Series C (clickhouse.com)

119 points by caust1c 11 months ago | 100 comments

12248.

Orion Browser (kagi.com)

119 points by gtirloni 9 months ago | 98 comments

12249.

The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub (hawksley.org)

119 points by mooreds on Jan 24, 2025 | 96 comments

12250.

Why quadratic funding is not optimal (jonathanwarden.com)

119 points by jwarden 10 months ago | 96 comments

12251.

Prison isn’t set up for today’s tech so we have to do legal work the old way (prisonjournalismproject.org)

119 points by danso 8 months ago | 94 comments

12252.

Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019) (pnas.org)

119 points by RickJWagner 6 months ago | 88 comments

12253.

Microsoft's 1986 IPO (dfarq.homeip.net)

119 points by giuliomagnifico on Mar 16, 2025 | 87 comments

12254.

Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug (windowslatest.com)

119 points by taubek 6 months ago | 86 comments

12255.

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you (nature.com)

119 points by XzetaU8 10 months ago | 85 comments

12256.

Do Files want to be Actors? (lewiscampbell.tech)

119 points by LAC-Tech on Jan 4, 2025 | 84 comments

12257.

Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions (news.arizona.edu)

119 points by ChuckMcM 11 months ago | 82 comments

12258.

YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account (piunikaweb.com)

119 points by rabinovich 6 months ago | 82 comments

12259.

Privacy implications of browsers’ (mis)implementations of Widevine EME (2023) (hal.science)

119 points by exceptione 10 months ago | 80 comments

12260.

Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say (nytimes.com)

119 points by perihelions 10 months ago | 77 comments

12261.

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim (theregister.com)

119 points by amichail on Jan 25, 2025 | 74 comments

12262.

Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

119 points by Bogdanp 9 months ago | 74 comments

12263.

Agentic pelican on a bicycle (robert-glaser.de)

119 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 74 comments

12264.

'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression (bps.org.uk)

119 points by domofutu 10 months ago | 71 comments

12265.

Code Is Debt (tornikeo.com)

119 points by tornikeo 8 months ago | 70 comments

12266.

Performance hacks for faster Python code (blog.jetbrains.com)

119 points by ashvardanian 5 months ago | 64 comments

12267.

Catala – Law to Code (catala-lang.org)

119 points by Grognak 4 months ago | 64 comments

12268.

Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? (centauri-dreams.org)

119 points by JPLeRouzic 11 months ago | 63 comments

12269.

Early universe's 'little red dots' may be black hole stars (science.org)

119 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 62 comments

12270.

AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand (pcgamer.com)

119 points by thomassmith65 5 months ago | 61 comments