Biggest Story of the Year?

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

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.