Top Hackernews posts from www.bbc.co.uk

  1. Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy (www.bbc.co.uk)
    1128 points by playpause over 2 years ago | 792 comments
  2. G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals (www.bbc.co.uk)
    1047 points by ddek over 3 years ago | 895 comments
  3. Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says (www.bbc.co.uk)
    1037 points by cjnicholls over 3 years ago | 829 comments
  4. Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum (www.bbc.co.uk)
    860 points by FridayoLeary about 3 years ago | 501 comments
  5. WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days (www.bbc.co.uk)
    689 points by ptype over 3 years ago | 310 comments
  6. Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support (www.bbc.co.uk)
    657 points by brobdingnagians over 3 years ago | 1261 comments
  7. Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission (www.bbc.co.uk)
    643 points by helsinkiandrew 4 months ago | 686 comments
  8. 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker (www.bbc.co.uk)
    616 points by jmkd over 3 years ago | 258 comments
  9. Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister (www.bbc.co.uk)
    546 points by samwillis almost 2 years ago | 631 comments
  10. Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software (www.bbc.co.uk)
    542 points by beermonster over 3 years ago | 290 comments
  11. Priced out of home ownership (www.bbc.co.uk)
    530 points by user20180120 4 months ago | 1246 comments
  12. Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower (www.bbc.co.uk)
    525 points by johndunne 8 months ago | 298 comments
  13. Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever (www.bbc.co.uk)
    503 points by kasperni over 3 years ago | 655 comments
  14. Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke (www.bbc.co.uk)
    475 points by sambeau 10 months ago | 147 comments
  15. US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine (www.bbc.co.uk)
    456 points by basisword over 3 years ago | 1059 comments
  16. The BBC on Mastodon (www.bbc.co.uk)
    442 points by _han about 1 year ago | 175 comments
  17. Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules (www.bbc.co.uk)
    416 points by pmoriarty over 1 year ago | 290 comments
  18. Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families (www.bbc.co.uk)
    415 points by bartread almost 2 years ago | 719 comments
  19. Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video] (www.bbc.co.uk)
    405 points by spzb over 3 years ago | 174 comments
  20. Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules (www.bbc.co.uk)
    403 points by BellLabradors over 3 years ago | 378 comments
  21. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared after cover-up of flawed system (www.bbc.co.uk)
    402 points by gerjomarty over 3 years ago | 4 comments
  22. Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private use of cannabis by adults (www.bbc.co.uk)
    392 points by pmoriarty about 3 years ago | 275 comments
  23. Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours (www.bbc.co.uk)
    387 points by buro9 almost 3 years ago | 238 comments
  24. Carl Weathers has died (www.bbc.co.uk)
    374 points by zeristor 8 months ago | 66 comments
  25. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
    372 points by iamnotarobotman about 3 years ago | 376 comments
  26. Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack (www.bbc.co.uk)
    362 points by pmoriarty over 3 years ago | 170 comments
  27. Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border (www.bbc.co.uk)
    330 points by sleepyshift over 3 years ago | 282 comments
  28. Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall (www.bbc.co.uk)
    319 points by mnw21cam over 3 years ago | 197 comments
  29. Man left shocked as his house is 'stolen' (www.bbc.co.uk)
    318 points by lbriner almost 3 years ago | 350 comments
  30. Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write (www.bbc.co.uk)
    314 points by mellosouls over 3 years ago | 352 comments
  31. Psilocybin 'promising' for depression (www.bbc.co.uk)
    304 points by aluket over 3 years ago | 315 comments
  32. Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission (www.bbc.co.uk)
    296 points by neversaydie 8 months ago | 140 comments
  33. 'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77% (www.bbc.co.uk)
    296 points by Zenst over 3 years ago | 70 comments
  34. Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic' (www.bbc.co.uk)
    294 points by dijksterhuis over 3 years ago | 324 comments
  35. One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown (www.bbc.co.uk)
    287 points by JulianMorrison over 3 years ago | 199 comments
  36. Denmark parliament approves giant artificial island off Copenhagen (www.bbc.co.uk)
    280 points by BlackVanilla over 3 years ago | 138 comments
  37. Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech (www.bbc.co.uk)
    278 points by mellosouls over 3 years ago | 82 comments
  38. France experiencing worst drought on record (www.bbc.co.uk)
    278 points by ksec about 2 years ago | 368 comments
  39. Rugby: Head impact study shows cognitive decline after just one season (www.bbc.co.uk)
    276 points by iechoz6H about 3 years ago | 213 comments
  40. Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage (www.bbc.co.uk)
    274 points by penguin_booze over 1 year ago | 454 comments
  41. Facebook under fire over secret teen research (www.bbc.co.uk)
    274 points by ColinWright about 3 years ago | 217 comments
  42. Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions (www.bbc.co.uk)
    271 points by nickdothutton over 2 years ago | 149 comments
  43. Record number of environmental activists murdered (www.bbc.co.uk)
    263 points by VieEnCode about 3 years ago | 162 comments
  44. HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank (www.bbc.co.uk)
    261 points by concerto over 1 year ago | 146 comments
  45. Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing (www.bbc.co.uk)
    259 points by jfk13 over 3 years ago | 44 comments
  46. Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' (www.bbc.co.uk)
    255 points by dustinmoris over 3 years ago | 299 comments
  47. Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant (www.bbc.co.uk)
    253 points by neversaydie 5 months ago | 156 comments
  48. Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram (www.bbc.co.uk)
    252 points by AndrewDucker almost 3 years ago | 313 comments
  49. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – 30th Anniversary Edition – Free Play Online (www.bbc.co.uk)
    249 points by sep_field over 3 years ago | 62 comments
  50. Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free (www.bbc.co.uk)
    248 points by BlackVanilla over 3 years ago | 413 comments
  51. Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim (www.bbc.co.uk)
    247 points by vinni2 about 2 years ago | 297 comments
  52. Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters (www.bbc.co.uk)
    242 points by lifeisstillgood almost 2 years ago | 97 comments
  53. UK 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer (www.bbc.co.uk)
    234 points by djaychela over 3 years ago | 201 comments
  54. Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months (www.bbc.co.uk)
    231 points by mjmasn over 3 years ago | 168 comments
  55. Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants (www.bbc.co.uk)
    227 points by pseudolus over 3 years ago | 116 comments
  56. I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write (www.bbc.co.uk)
    225 points by ptr2voidStar about 3 years ago | 157 comments
  57. White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT) (www.bbc.co.uk)
    222 points by rwmj 6 months ago | 247 comments
  58. India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi (www.bbc.co.uk)
    218 points by jfk13 over 3 years ago | 387 comments
  59. Result from LHCb experiment challenges the Standard Model (www.bbc.co.uk)
    216 points by Kaibeezy over 3 years ago | 167 comments
  60. Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? (www.bbc.co.uk)
    213 points by gixo about 3 years ago | 495 comments
  61. The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015) (www.bbc.co.uk)
    212 points by EndXA over 3 years ago | 38 comments
  62. UN says “No credible pathway” and “woefully inadequate” to stop global 1.5C (www.bbc.co.uk)
    206 points by open-source-ux almost 2 years ago | 328 comments
  63. Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity (www.bbc.co.uk)
    205 points by frereubu over 3 years ago | 239 comments
  64. Job vacancies surge past one million in new record (www.bbc.co.uk)
    203 points by gixo about 3 years ago | 366 comments
  65. Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan (www.bbc.co.uk)
    203 points by phpnode about 3 years ago | 224 comments
  66. Twitter 'troll' to pay six-figure sum (www.bbc.co.uk)
    200 points by iechoz6H about 3 years ago | 243 comments
  67. The computers rejecting job applications (www.bbc.co.uk)
    198 points by mnw21cam over 3 years ago | 251 comments
  68. UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill (www.bbc.co.uk)
    194 points by phab 12 months ago | 122 comments
  69. UK food price inflation hit 16.2% in October – cost of food basics surging (www.bbc.co.uk)
    193 points by open-source-ux almost 2 years ago | 363 comments
  70. Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time (www.bbc.co.uk)
    192 points by ljf over 1 year ago | 210 comments
  71. Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident (www.bbc.co.uk)
    191 points by goodcanadian over 3 years ago | 111 comments
  72. Gordon Hall has died (www.bbc.co.uk)
    190 points by asplake over 3 years ago | 69 comments
  73. Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal (www.bbc.co.uk)
    187 points by physicsguy 8 months ago | 90 comments
  74. Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution (www.bbc.co.uk)
    187 points by pmoriarty over 3 years ago | 71 comments
  75. My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die (www.bbc.co.uk)
    184 points by user20180120 5 months ago | 109 comments
  76. Universal basic income to be tested in Wales (www.bbc.co.uk)
    184 points by tmfi over 3 years ago | 322 comments
  77. Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break (www.bbc.co.uk)
    184 points by dustinmoris about 3 years ago | 284 comments
  78. Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm (www.bbc.co.uk)
    182 points by zeristor over 3 years ago | 132 comments
  79. Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (www.bbc.co.uk)
    182 points by simonswords82 almost 3 years ago | 216 comments
  80. Beavers back in London after 400-year absence (www.bbc.co.uk)
    179 points by zeristor over 2 years ago | 131 comments
  81. Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order (www.bbc.co.uk)
    178 points by ode 9 months ago | 325 comments
  82. Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results (www.bbc.co.uk)
    174 points by fredoralive over 3 years ago | 361 comments
  83. Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year (www.bbc.co.uk)
    172 points by mellosouls 12 months ago | 324 comments
  84. Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
    169 points by chrischapman over 3 years ago | 71 comments
  85. Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed (www.bbc.co.uk)
    167 points by NJRBailey almost 2 years ago | 70 comments
  86. Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan (www.bbc.co.uk)
    167 points by mywacaday over 1 year ago | 71 comments
  87. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs (www.bbc.co.uk)
    166 points by IMSAI8080 5 months ago | 221 comments
  88. China has created a 'dystopian hellscape' in Xinjiang, Amnesty report says (www.bbc.co.uk)
    166 points by pmoriarty over 3 years ago | 128 comments
  89. First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq (www.bbc.co.uk)
    166 points by etewiah about 3 years ago | 175 comments
  90. Vincent Van Gogh: Hidden self-portrait discovered by X-ray (www.bbc.co.uk)
    165 points by samizdis about 2 years ago | 50 comments
  91. BBC: Killings in Bucha are deliberate massacre – Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
    164 points by rendall over 2 years ago | 100 comments
  92. Julian Assange’s Extradition to US Approved by UK Home Secretary (www.bbc.co.uk)
    164 points by rvz over 2 years ago | 139 comments
  93. Uber and Lyft to swap data on banned drivers (www.bbc.co.uk)
    163 points by recursion over 3 years ago | 84 comments
  94. Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024 (www.bbc.co.uk)
    162 points by intunderflow over 3 years ago | 174 comments
  95. Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? (www.bbc.co.uk)
    162 points by bananapear over 3 years ago | 129 comments
  96. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' (www.bbc.co.uk)
    160 points by rwmj 4 months ago | 3 comments
  97. Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research (www.bbc.co.uk)
    160 points by ComodoHacker over 3 years ago | 117 comments
  98. Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed (www.bbc.co.uk)
    157 points by divbzero 7 months ago | 273 comments
  99. The House That Vanished (www.bbc.co.uk)
    154 points by philbo about 3 years ago | 159 comments
  100. New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed (www.bbc.co.uk)
    153 points by aries1980 over 3 years ago | 161 comments