r/hackernews • • Apr 19 '20

California is saving $40M per day from reduction in car crashes due to COVID19

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ucdavis.edu
545 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Mar 23 '21

Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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435 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jun 15 '20

Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed

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mothership.sg
275 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Feb 19 '21

Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

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twitter.com
259 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Oct 24 '19

Congressman's phone password is 111111

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gfycat.com
239 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jan 31 '21

CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

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technologyreview.com
228 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Apr 13 '25

We're back (hopefully)!

205 Upvotes

Hello. I created this subreddit many years ago.

I deleted my original account but thankfully have this mod backup.

My original hn_bot bot died and was replaced by qznc_bot written by u/qznc, then qznc_bot2 by u/Fletch_to_99. This subreddit has been just been running on autopilot since then.

That was until the bot was banned a couple of weeks ago. Thank you to those who alerted me to this via DM.

I've wrote a replacement bot that runs on GitHub actions. Source code can be found here.

I don't know the other mods and they're all inactive.

I hope the new bot will not break or get banned.

Edit: see pinned comment.


r/hackernews • • Apr 06 '23

If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

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sbstatesman.com
199 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Sep 20 '26

People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting

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neowin.net
185 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Aug 25 '22

White House banning journal paywalls for federally funded research

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whitehouse.gov
179 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Sep 04 '20

Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

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androidpolice.com
179 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Apr 18 '23

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

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ghacks.net
178 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jun 05 '20

WeChat permanently closes account after user sets CCP-offensive password

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twitter.com
178 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jan 08 '26

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

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theverge.com
177 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Feb 13 '20

Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

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boingboing.net
177 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jan 06 '22

New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads

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forbes.com
174 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jan 13 '20

DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU

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searchenginejournal.com
174 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jun 18 '20

Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do

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washingtonpost.com
172 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Apr 12 '23

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible

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independent.co.uk
171 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jun 19 '21

North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering

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ij.org
168 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • May 05 '26 Despair Regret

GitHub banned my account for running the /r/HN bot

164 Upvotes

So, the bot is dead again. And this time it's because my GitHub account has been `flagged` due to allegedly `spammy` GitHub Actions usage. The only regular Action I had running was the bot for this sub. So, that's my GitHub account dead, as I doubt they'll bother responding my appeal. RIP.

EDIT: WE'RE SO BACK


r/hackernews • • Jun 01 '21

Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working from Home

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bloomberg.com
164 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jul 18 '26

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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velvetshark.com
163 Upvotes

r/hackernews • • Jan 22 '18

Linus Torvalds – “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

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163 Upvotes