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1. Stephen Hawking has died
   (14 Mar 2018 | 6015 points | Comments)

2. A Message to Our Customers
   (17 Feb 2016 | 5771 points | Comments)

3. OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
   (17 Nov 2023 | 5710 points | Comments)

4. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
   (29 Mar 2024 | 4549 points | Comments)

5. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
   (19 Jul 2024 | 4489 points | Comments)

6. Steve Jobs has passed away.
   (5 Oct 2011 | 4338 points | Comments)

7. Bram Moolenaar has died
   (5 Aug 2023 | 4310 points | Comments)

8. Mechanical Watch
   (4 May 2022 | 4298 points | Comments)

9. YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
   (23 Oct 2020 | 4240 points | Comments)

10. Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
    (11 Mar 2026 | 4224 points | Comments)

11. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
    (19 Feb 2017 | 4107 points | Comments)

12. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
    (5 Apr 2021 | 4103 points | Comments)

13. GPT-4
    (14 Mar 2023 | 4091 points | Comments)

14. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
    (7 Jun 2021 | 4022 points | Comments)

15. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
    (28 Feb 2021 | 3883 points | Comments)

16. Bye, Amazon
    (4 May 2020 | 3816 points | Comments)

17. Kevin Mitnick has died
    (19 Jul 2023 | 3699 points | Comments)

18. Sora: Creating video from text
    (15 Feb 2024 | 3647 points | Comments)

19. Google Search Is Dying
    (15 Feb 2022 | 3636 points | Comments)

20. Every Google result now looks like an ad
    (21 Jan 2020 | 3592 points | Comments)

21. Show HN: This up votes itself
    (23 Mar 2012 | 3531 points | Comments)

22. Ghostty is leaving GitHub
    (28 Apr 2026 | 3518 points | Comments)

23. A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
    (16 Sep 2021 | 3441 points | Comments)

24. Apollo will close down on June 30th
    (8 Jun 2023 | 3421 points | Comments)

25. Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
    (18 Sep 2025 | 3401 points | Comments)

26. My First Impressions of Web3
    (7 Jan 2022 | 3393 points | Comments)

27. Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
    (5 Sep 2023 | 3387 points | Comments)

28. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
    (14 Dec 2017 | 3384 points | Comments)

29. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
    (15 Feb 2023 | 3363 points | Comments)

30. GitHub, fuck your name change
    (17 Mar 2021 | 3353 points | Comments)

31. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
    (9 Dec 2025 | 3342 points | Comments)

32. Switch from Chrome to Firefox
    (30 May 2019 | 3287 points | Comments)

33. Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
    (19 Apr 2020 | 3270 points | Comments)

34. Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
    (23 Feb 2017 | 3238 points | Comments)

35. Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
    (22 Jan 2025 | 3237 points | Comments)

36. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
    (17 Nov 2021 | 3192 points | Comments)

37. FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
    (10 Mar 2023 | 3172 points | Comments)

38. GPT-4o
    (13 May 2024 | 3138 points | Comments)

39. Moon
    (17 Dec 2024 | 3128 points | Comments)

40. UK votes to leave EU
    (24 Jun 2016 | 3125 points | Comments)

41. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
    (7 Nov 2020 | 3089 points | Comments)

42. Tim Cook Speaks Up
    (30 Oct 2014 | 3086 points | Comments)

43. Stimulation Clicker
    (6 Jan 2025 | 3082 points | Comments)

44. Sound
    (18 Oct 2022 | 3053 points | Comments)

45. Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
    (25 Aug 2025 | 3050 points | Comments)

46. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
    (23 Feb 2017 | 3030 points | Comments)

47. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
    (21 Apr 2021 | 3025 points | Comments)

48. AnandTech Farewell
    (30 Aug 2024 | 3025 points | Comments)

49. I Sell Onions on the Internet
    (23 Apr 2019 | 3015 points | Comments)

50. Bicycle
    (28 Mar 2023 | 3014 points | Comments)

51. macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
    (28 Nov 2017 | 3001 points | Comments)

52. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
    (6 Feb 2018 | 2968 points | Comments)

53. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
    (12 May 2020 | 2953 points | Comments)

54. No Cookie for You
    (17 Dec 2020 | 2941 points | Comments)

55. Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
    (28 Feb 2025 | 2936 points | Comments)

56. Steam Machine
    (12 Nov 2025 | 2927 points | Comments)

57. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
    (26 Feb 2026 | 2918 points | Comments)

58. GitHub Copilot
    (29 Jun 2021 | 2905 points | Comments)

59. 2048
    (10 Mar 2014 | 2903 points | Comments)

60. Paul Allen has died
    (15 Oct 2018 | 2901 points | Comments)

61. GPS
    (18 Jan 2022 | 2900 points | Comments)

62. Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
    (3 Jun 2018 | 2873 points | Comments)

63. Announcing unlimited free private repos
    (7 Jan 2019 | 2867 points | Comments)

64. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
    (30 May 2020 | 2856 points | Comments)

65. We're bringing Pebble back
    (27 Jan 2025 | 2843 points | Comments)

66. Queen Elizabeth II has died
    (8 Sep 2022 | 2827 points | Comments)

67. Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
    (2 Jan 2022 | 2813 points | Comments)

68. US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
    (13 Dec 2022 | 2786 points | Comments)

69. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
    (20 Nov 2019 | 2776 points | Comments)

70. Gears
    (12 Feb 2020 | 2760 points | Comments)

71. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
    (11 Jan 2026 | 2750 points | Comments)

72. Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
    (14 Apr 2022 | 2747 points | Comments)

73. Don't Fly During Ramadan
    (22 Aug 2013 | 2744 points | Comments)

74. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
    (14 Aug 2024 | 2741 points | Comments)

75. W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
    (18 Sep 2017 | 2735 points | Comments)

76. Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
    (28 Jan 2021 | 2706 points | Comments)

77. CIA malware and hacking tools
    (7 Mar 2017 | 2699 points | Comments)

78. Social Cooling (2017)
    (29 Sep 2020 | 2692 points | Comments)

79. Keep Android Open
    (29 Oct 2025 | 2691 points | Comments)

80. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
    (14 Mar 2019 | 2690 points | Comments)

81. A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing
    (30 Jun 2021 | 2682 points | Comments)

82. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
    (24 Jun 2024 | 2676 points | Comments)

83. Hyperloop
    (12 Aug 2013 | 2666 points | Comments)

84. The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
    (21 Sep 2021 | 2666 points | Comments)

85. We Will Not Be Divided
    (28 Feb 2026 | 2643 points | Comments)

86. YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
    (16 Nov 2020 | 2636 points | Comments)

87. Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
    (31 May 2020 | 2634 points | Comments)

88. Size of Life
    (10 Dec 2025 | 2614 points | Comments)

89. IBM acquires Red Hat
    (28 Oct 2018 | 2611 points | Comments)

90. Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
    (5 Jun 2023 | 2608 points | Comments)

91. macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
    (12 Nov 2020 | 2603 points | Comments)

92. My Business Card Runs Linux
    (24 Dec 2019 | 2595 points | Comments)

93. Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
    (15 Jul 2020 | 2595 points | Comments)

94. Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
    (2 Nov 2020 | 2594 points | Comments)

95. Gordon Moore has died
    (25 Mar 2023 | 2594 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: Is S3 down?
    (28 Feb 2017 | 2589 points | Comments)

97. GitHub is now free for teams
    (14 Apr 2020 | 2589 points | Comments)

98. Facebook-owned sites were down
    (4 Oct 2021 | 2589 points | Comments)

99. FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
    (17 Jun 2024 | 2587 points | Comments)

100. Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
     (16 Sep 2018 | 2585 points | Comments)