Top Hackernews posts from www.independent.co.uk

1. Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit (www.independent.co.uk)
   804 points by notRobot about 5 years | 250 comments
2. Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial (www.independent.co.uk)
   704 points by belter over 2 years | 335 comments
3. Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final (www.independent.co.uk)
   609 points by softwarebeware over 4 years | 465 comments
4. US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies (www.independent.co.uk)
   554 points by gscott over 5 years | 305 comments
5. Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event' (www.independent.co.uk)
   468 points by rudolfwinestock over 2 years | 423 comments
6. New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible (www.independent.co.uk)
   423 points by BerislavLopac over 3 years | 326 comments
7. Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project (www.independent.co.uk)
   345 points by green-eclipse over 4 years | 206 comments
8. A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald (www.independent.co.uk)
   313 points by pseudolus over 2 years | 514 comments
9. Tina Turner has died (www.independent.co.uk)
   234 points by jacquesm over 3 years | 42 comments
10. World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’ (www.independent.co.uk)
    207 points by toomuchtodo about 5 years | 120 comments
11. Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway (www.independent.co.uk)
    202 points by ren_engineer about 3 years | 172 comments
12. Diabetes drug Mounjaro was available at $25/month, then increased to $1k/month (www.independent.co.uk)
    188 points by lando2319 over 3 years | 289 comments
13. Second Boeing whistleblower dies after raising concerns about 737 MAX (www.independent.co.uk)
    185 points by rlue over 2 years | 3 comments
14. French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ (www.independent.co.uk)
    182 points by nomoreplease over 5 years | 369 comments
15. Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished (www.independent.co.uk)
    181 points by ducaale over 4 years | 173 comments
16. Harvard’s new computer science teacher is a chatbot (www.independent.co.uk)
    166 points by belter over 3 years | 168 comments
17. Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug (www.independent.co.uk)
    161 points by xrayarx over 2 years | 65 comments
18. Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat (www.independent.co.uk)
    153 points by kn9 about 5 years | 99 comments
19. Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships (www.independent.co.uk)
    147 points by 3super3 over 5 years | 88 comments
20. Australia locks down ports after ‘nationally significant’ cyberattack (www.independent.co.uk)
    147 points by perihelions almost 3 years | 90 comments
21. Google to lay off 10k “poor performers” (www.independent.co.uk)
    146 points by crhulls almost 4 years | 134 comments
22. Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery (www.independent.co.uk)
    137 points by dithered_djinn over 2 years | 115 comments
23. Dick Rutan, pilot of the first nonstop around-the-world flight, has died (www.independent.co.uk)
    126 points by gulced over 2 years | 16 comments
24. Boeing CEO admits company has retaliated against whistleblowers (www.independent.co.uk)
    125 points by breadwinner over 2 years | 20 comments
25. Burt Bacharach has died (www.independent.co.uk)
    115 points by jacquesm over 3 years | 23 comments
26. Debris Field Confirmed as Titan (www.independent.co.uk)
    111 points by methodical over 3 years | 172 comments
27. Blocked from Amazon Alexa for a week after racism accusation by delivery driver (www.independent.co.uk)
    105 points by toss1 over 3 years | 80 comments
28. South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting (www.independent.co.uk)
    105 points by danielovichdk over 3 years | 133 comments
29. Scientists have finally found the potential “cure” for baldness (www.independent.co.uk)
    101 points by mdp2021 about 4 years | 190 comments
30. Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island (www.independent.co.uk)
    98 points by thunderbong about 3 years | 82 comments
31. Government asks German residents to drive lorries even if they never have before (www.independent.co.uk)
    95 points by doener almost 5 years | 83 comments
32. 5 People killed as plane carrying environment workers to Ohio tragedy crashes (www.independent.co.uk)
    95 points by dlcmh over 3 years | 51 comments
33. Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods (www.independent.co.uk)
    94 points by azernik over 5 years | 77 comments
34. UK Home Secretary considering removing right to anonymity on social media (www.independent.co.uk)
    91 points by ArchieMaclean almost 5 years | 124 comments
35. Oral Sex Stoking Throat Cancer ‘Epidemic’ in UK and US (www.independent.co.uk)
    91 points by DocFeind over 3 years | 110 comments
36. UK homes binning 100B pieces of plastic a year, survey finds (www.independent.co.uk)
    90 points by thatbat about 4 years | discuss
37. UK four-day week pilot begins: employees get 100% of the pay for 80% of the time (www.independent.co.uk)
    81 points by giuliomagnifico over 4 years | 49 comments
38. Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge (www.independent.co.uk)
    80 points by prakhar897 over 2 years | 61 comments
39. Oil giant fined just $780k after 'one of biggest ever' methane leaks (www.independent.co.uk)
    78 points by ljf over 2 years | 13 comments
40. FTC requests Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram (www.independent.co.uk)
    73 points by pouwerkerk about 5 years | 15 comments
41. Backlash as Netflix cancels five shows at once including its 'best series' (www.independent.co.uk)
    71 points by pg_1234 almost 3 years | 93 comments
42. How Iraq’s crystal meth epidemic is ravaging the nation (www.independent.co.uk)
    70 points by badwetter over 5 years | 89 comments
43. Anger as BP profits triple to $8.5bn amid soaring household energy bills (www.independent.co.uk)
    69 points by lastdong about 4 years | 68 comments
44. Cash App founder Bob Lee had left San Francisco over crime (www.independent.co.uk)
    67 points by fortran77 over 3 years | 28 comments
45. SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’ (www.independent.co.uk)
    64 points by hiddencache about 5 years | 78 comments
46. Earth’s inner core is growing unevenly. Why isn’t the planet tipping? (www.independent.co.uk)
    60 points by Phithagoras about 5 years | 25 comments
47. UK quietly drops ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from goals in Gulf trade deal (www.independent.co.uk)
    56 points by leephillips over 4 years | 7 comments
48. ‘Worse than feared’: Brexit to blame for £33B loss to UK economy, study shows (www.independent.co.uk)
    55 points by paulpauper almost 4 years | 19 comments
49. Brexit: Rejoining EU takes record 14-point lead in latest poll (www.independent.co.uk)
    55 points by mpweiher almost 4 years | 98 comments
50. Plane forced to turn back to JFK after horse breaks loose onboard (www.independent.co.uk)
    55 points by austinallegro almost 3 years | 48 comments
51. US Scientists Achieve Net Gain Fusion Reaction (www.independent.co.uk)
    53 points by sarchertech almost 4 years | 6 comments
52. Musk’s Twitter bans ad showing Republican interrupting couple in bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)
    53 points by downWidOutaFite about 3 years | 20 comments
53. Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016) (www.independent.co.uk)
    53 points by drjohnson over 2 years | 27 comments
54. A plant that cannot die (www.independent.co.uk)
    52 points by midnightcity about 5 years | 10 comments
55. Arctic Circle land temperature reaches 48°C during heatwave in Siberia (www.independent.co.uk)
    52 points by NiceWayToDoIT about 5 years | 23 comments
56. Scientists invent double-sided solar panel that generates way more electricity (www.independent.co.uk)
    52 points by thunderbong about 3 years | 28 comments
57. Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app (www.independent.co.uk)
    50 points by doener about 3 years | 75 comments
58. Elon Musk takes control of X account from user who had held it for 16 years (www.independent.co.uk)
    50 points by isaacfrond about 3 years | 64 comments