Ask HN: Biggest Story of the Year?

3 points·wilted-iris··6 comments

As the year comes to a close, let's revisit some of the stories that crossed the HN front page. What do you think was the biggest story we saw?

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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...

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

The pair of OpenAI stories here is fascinating. Are folks bullish on OpenAI after everything that happened?

It's hard to say - depends on what will Sutskever do, probably? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579227)

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.

Some people are flagging negative Twitter stories for various reasons, so they didn't stick on front page for a long time, even if some other people consider them important (significant amount of flags affects ranking before story becomes [flagged]).

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