Ask HN: Biggest Story of the Year?

by wilted-irison 12/28/2023, 5:54:05 AM with 3 comments
  • by cushpushon 12/28/2023, 7:21:23 AM

    I keep track of cool stories that I find on HN and elsewhere on https://nextapex.co (Electric Clojure HN clone) and I think my favorite one is 8 weeks of hot yoga keeps you happy https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/heated-yoga-m...

  • by r721on 12/28/2023, 6:10:41 AM

    Here are top stories for "Past Year" (by Algolia):

    https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

    >OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman 5710 points 2531 comments

    >Bram Moolenaar has died 4310 points 428 comments

    >GPT-4 4091 points 2507 comments

    >Kevin Mitnick has died 3699 points 614 comments

    >Apollo will close down on June 30th 3421 points 1609 comments

  • by wilted-irison 12/28/2023, 6:00:44 AM

    Reddit made some major missteps and Twitter/X started to crumble. I think we'll look back and point at this year as the beginning of the end for the current social media platforms.