The Best Hacker News Posts of All Time

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Stephen Hawking has died bbc.com · Cogito · 14 Mar 2018

6k pts 436 comments

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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com · davidbarker · 17 Nov 2023

5.7k pts 2.5k comments

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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise openwall.com · rkta · 29 Mar 2024

4.5k pts 1.8k comments

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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com · BLKNSLVR · 19 Jul 2024

4.5k pts 3.9k comments

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Bram Moolenaar has died groups.google.com · wufocaculura · 5 Aug 2023

4.3k pts 428 comments

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Mechanical Watch ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 4 May 2022

4.3k pts 413 comments

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YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA github.com · phantop · 23 Oct 2020

4.2k pts 1.4k comments

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Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans news.ycombinator.com · usefulposter · 11 Mar 2026

4.2k pts 1.7k comments

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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber susanjfowler.com · grey-area · 19 Feb 2017

4.1k pts 1k comments

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Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] supremecourt.gov · pdoconnell · 5 Apr 2021

4.1k pts 932 comments

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GPT-4 openai.com · e0m · 14 Mar 2023

4.1k pts 2.5k comments

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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project intuitiveexplanations.com · raxod502 · 7 Jun 2021

4k pts 1.3k comments

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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% nee.lv · kuroguro · 28 Feb 2021

3.9k pts 699 comments

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Bye, Amazon tbray.org · grey-area · 4 May 2020

3.8k pts 1.1k comments

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Kevin Mitnick has died dignitymemorial.com · thirtyseven · 19 Jul 2023

3.7k pts 613 comments

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Sora: Creating video from text openai.com · davidbarker · 15 Feb 2024

3.6k pts 2.2k comments

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Google Search Is Dying dkb.io · dbrereton · 15 Feb 2022

3.6k pts 1.6k comments

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Every Google result now looks like an ad twitter.com · cmod · 21 Jan 2020

3.6k pts 972 comments

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Ghostty is leaving GitHub mitchellh.com · WadeGrimridge · 28 Apr 2026

3.5k pts 1.1k comments

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A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design search.marginalia.nu · Funes- · 16 Sep 2021

3.4k pts 717 comments

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Apollo will close down on June 30th old.reddit.com · timf · 8 Jun 2023

3.4k pts 1.6k comments

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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year mahadk.com · JustSkyfall · 18 Sep 2025

3.4k pts 1.5k comments

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My First Impressions of Web3 moxie.org · natdempk · 7 Jan 2022

3.4k pts 1.1k comments

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Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates SimingtonFCC · 5 Sep 2023

3.4k pts 925 comments

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F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules nytimes.com · panny · 14 Dec 2017

3.4k pts 1.4k comments

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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” simonwillison.net · simonw · 15 Feb 2023

3.4k pts 1.7k comments

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GitHub, fuck your name change mooseyanon.medium.com · leontrolski · 17 Mar 2021

3.4k pts 2k comments

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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io · keepamovin · 9 Dec 2025

3.3k pts 965 comments

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Switch from Chrome to Firefox mozilla.org · WisNorCan · 30 May 2019

3.3k pts 983 comments

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Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? zachrip · 19 Apr 2020

3.3k pts 473 comments

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Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory bugs.chromium.org · tptacek · 23 Feb 2017

3.2k pts 992 comments

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Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee · byran · 22 Jan 2025

3.2k pts 323 comments

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“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says niemanlab.org · spzx · 17 Nov 2021

3.2k pts 861 comments

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FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank fdic.gov · khuey · 10 Mar 2023

3.2k pts 1.6k comments

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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com · Dylan1312 · 13 Jun 2026

3.2k pts 2.3k comments

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GPT-4o openai.com · Lealen · 13 May 2024

3.1k pts 2.4k comments

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Moon ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 17 Dec 2024

3.1k pts 250 comments

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Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. apnews.com · granzymes · 7 Nov 2020

3.1k pts 4.6k comments

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Stimulation Clicker neal.fun · meetpateltech · 6 Jan 2025

3.1k pts 589 comments

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Sound ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 18 Oct 2022

3.1k pts 206 comments

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Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com · kotaKat · 25 Aug 2025

3.1k pts 2.3k comments

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Announcing the first SHA-1 collision security.googleblog.com · pfg · 23 Feb 2017

3k pts 485 comments

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“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” lore.kernel.org · kdbg · 21 Apr 2021

3k pts 1.9k comments

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AnandTech Farewell anandtech.com · janice1999 · 30 Aug 2024

3k pts 598 comments

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I Sell Onions on the Internet deepsouthventures.com · eightturn · 23 Apr 2019

3k pts 435 comments

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Bicycle ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 28 Mar 2023

3k pts 399 comments

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macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password twitter.com · vladikoff · 28 Nov 2017

3k pts 1.1k comments

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches techcrunch.com · mpweiher · 6 Feb 2018

3k pts 871 comments

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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever buzzfeednews.com · minimaxir · 12 May 2020

3k pts 1.3k comments

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No Cookie for You github.blog · todsacerdoti · 17 Dec 2020

2.9k pts 609 comments

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Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com · yakkomajuri · 28 Feb 2025

2.9k pts 5k comments

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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s section33 · 19 Jul 2026

2.9k pts 360 comments

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Steam Machine store.steampowered.com · davikr · 12 Nov 2025

2.9k pts 1.5k comments

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War anthropic.com · qwertox · 26 Feb 2026

2.9k pts 1.6k comments

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GitHub Copilot copilot.github.com · todsacerdoti · 29 Jun 2021

2.9k pts 1.3k comments

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Paul Allen has died cnbc.com · coloneltcb · 15 Oct 2018

2.9k pts 277 comments

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GPS ciechanow.ski · todsacerdoti · 18 Jan 2022

2.9k pts 285 comments

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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub bloomberg.com · miguelrochefort · 3 Jun 2018

2.9k pts 1.4k comments

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Announcing unlimited free private repos blog.github.com · razer6 · 7 Jan 2019

2.9k pts 684 comments

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SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit nasa.gov · tosh · 30 May 2020

2.9k pts 798 comments