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| The best articles from newyorker.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2008 | | Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com) |
| 104 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2014 | | “Person of Interest”: The TV Show That Predicted Edward Snowden (newyorker.com) |
| 93 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | How people learn to become resilient (newyorker.com) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Last Survivors of Meridian 59 (newyorker.com) |
| 89 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2016 | | On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (newyorker.com) |
| 87 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com) |
| 87 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (newyorker.com) |
| 83 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1954 | | The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 1981 | | A.I. (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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| 2016 | | London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2007 | | Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (newyorker.com) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2012 | | Altered States: Self-Experiments in Chemistry (newyorker.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Pickpocket's Tale (newyorker.com) |
| 79 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table (newyorker.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Checklist (newyorker.com) |
| 78 points | 12 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2015 | | Can the Internet Be Archived? (newyorker.com) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (newyorker.com) |
| 77 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (newyorker.com) |
| 76 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2008 | | Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (newyorker.com) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | Before the Internet (newyorker.com) |
| 74 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2011 | | Portugal decriminalized drugs a decade ago – what have we learned? (newyorker.com) |
| 73 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1982 | | “Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (newyorker.com) |
| 73 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | The persistence of prog rock (newyorker.com) |
| 73 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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| 2010 | | The Truth Wears Off (newyorker.com) |
| 72 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2017 | | A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (newyorker.com) |
| 69 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2014 | | Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (newyorker.com) |
| 68 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Libertarian Futurism of Peter Thiel (newyorker.com) |
| 67 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Canticle for Leibowitz Still Smolders (newyorker.com) |
| 66 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Story of “How About Never” (newyorker.com) |
| 66 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Stanford – The Get Rich University (newyorker.com) |
| 65 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Prion Love Story (newyorker.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories (newyorker.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2011 | | Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation (newyorker.com) |
| 64 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (newyorker.com) |
| 63 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Drugs for Cancer? (newyorker.com) |
| 63 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1930 | | Heavier Than Air (newyorker.com) |
| 62 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2015 | | To Fall Out of Love, Do This (newyorker.com) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (newyorker.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2010 | | Cancer World: The making of a modern disease (newyorker.com) |
| 61 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2014 | | The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism (newyorker.com) |
| 60 points | 2 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (newyorker.com) |
| 60 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2007 | | Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? (newyorker.com) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1975 | | Hannah Arendt: Remembering W.H. Auden (newyorker.com) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1970 | | Autobiographical Notes by Jorge Luis Borges (newyorker.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit (newyorker.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1953 | | Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (newyorker.com) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1993 | | Secrets of the Magus (newyorker.com) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1993 | | Email from Bill (newyorker.com) |
| 56 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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