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| The best articles from atlasobscura.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2017 | | Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things (atlasobscura.com) |
| 654 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | Encryption Lava Lamps (atlasobscura.com) |
| 513 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2016 | | The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (atlasobscura.com) |
| 353 points | 3 years ago with 365 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (atlasobscura.com) |
| 327 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 308 comments |
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| 2017 | | People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 319 points | 1 year ago with 125 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (atlasobscura.com) |
| 295 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (atlasobscura.com) |
| 235 points | 3 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (atlasobscura.com) |
| 223 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2016 | | The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (atlasobscura.com) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2016 | | Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (atlasobscura.com) |
| 203 points | 4 years ago with 223 comments |
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| 2019 | | The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (atlasobscura.com) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2015 | | C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (atlasobscura.com) |
| 180 points | 7 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 2016 | | The enduring mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s all-purpose noun (atlasobscura.com) |
| 168 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2015 | | A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (atlasobscura.com) |
| 150 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (atlasobscura.com) |
| 140 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2015 | | A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (atlasobscura.com) |
| 139 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2017 | | Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (atlasobscura.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2015 | | The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 138 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2018 | | Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (atlasobscura.com) |
| 137 points | 3 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (atlasobscura.com) |
| 136 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2016 | | Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans for Centuries (atlasobscura.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (atlasobscura.com) |
| 124 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2018 | | The cyanide tooth is a cold war fairy-tale (atlasobscura.com) |
| 118 points | 2 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2017 | | Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (atlasobscura.com) |
| 117 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2016 | | The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (atlasobscura.com) |
| 114 points | 2 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2016 | | One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (atlasobscura.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (atlasobscura.com) |
| 105 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (atlasobscura.com) |
| 104 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2019 | | A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (atlasobscura.com) |
| 104 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to count every language in India (atlasobscura.com) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (atlasobscura.com) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2016 | | Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (atlasobscura.com) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | The lost saga of Fossil Cycad National Monument (atlasobscura.com) |
| 93 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments |
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| 2019 | | How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (atlasobscura.com) |
| 84 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2017 | | Atomic Gardening (atlasobscura.com) |
| 82 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2016 | | Early, state-sanctioned LSD experiments in Bulgaria (atlasobscura.com) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2015 | | Grave of a man who never was (atlasobscura.com) |
| 75 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 2016 | | An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (atlasobscura.com) |
| 71 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2019 | | A midcentury map of New York, packed with weird local lore (atlasobscura.com) |
| 62 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments |
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| 2015 | | New York City’s Mail Chutes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2019 | | Defenestration of Prague Window (atlasobscura.com) |
| 60 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | When Squirrels Were One of America’s Most Popular Pets (atlasobscura.com) |
| 59 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (atlasobscura.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom (atlasobscura.com) |
| 54 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2019 | | Playing cards that taught 17th-century cooks to carve meat (atlasobscura.com) |
| 53 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 2016 | | The History of the CD-ROM Magazine (atlasobscura.com) |
| 50 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Do You Decode a Hapax? Also, What’s a Hapax? (atlasobscura.com) |
| 47 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2017 | | Pynchon in Public Day (atlasobscura.com) |
| 31 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Curious Case of August Engelhardt, Leader of a Coconut-Obsessed Cult (atlasobscura.com) |
| 30 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2018 | | Glass dresses, a fairytale fashion trend that never quite took off (atlasobscura.com) |
| 28 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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