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| The best articles from newyorker.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| Change the ?site URL parameter to try it on any other website. Or click the domain shown after each post title. |
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| 2019 | | The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com) |
| 2569 points across 3 posts | 25 annotations | 4 months ago with 243 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (newyorker.com) |
| 543 points across 2 posts | 5 annotations | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1946 | | Hiroshima (newyorker.com) |
| 486 points across 3 posts | 4 annotations | 1 year ago with 158 comments |
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| 2015 | | Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (newyorker.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 5 annotations | 1 week ago with 352 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Walking Helps Us Think (newyorker.com) |
| 407 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2015 | | Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (newyorker.com) |
| 329 points | 4 years ago with 245 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (newyorker.com) |
| 314 points | 4 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2014 | | Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (newyorker.com) |
| 290 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) |
| 279 points | 1 year ago with 317 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to Be a Stoic (newyorker.com) |
| 277 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (newyorker.com) |
| 260 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 122 comments |
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| 1993 | | Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (newyorker.com) |
| 223 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1994 | | How I Met My Wife (newyorker.com) |
| 217 points | 1 year ago with 125 comments |
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| 2013 | | I had an autoimmune disease, then the disease had me (newyorker.com) |
| 215 points | 5 years ago with 138 comments |
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| 2010 | | Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (newyorker.com) |
| 212 points | 8 years ago with 171 comments |
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| 2005 | | What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com) |
| 207 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (newyorker.com) |
| 196 points | 3 months ago with 75 comments |
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| 2018 | | Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (newyorker.com) |
| 186 points | 1 annotation | 3 months ago with 123 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (newyorker.com) |
| 184 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2019 | | How to Read “Gilgamesh” (newyorker.com) |
| 179 points | 7 months ago with 118 comments |
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| 1994 | | E-mail from Bill (newyorker.com) |
| 177 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1998 | | American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (newyorker.com) |
| 174 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2015 | | Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (newyorker.com) |
| 165 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Dangerous Power of Crowds (newyorker.com) |
| 165 points across 3 posts | 1 annotation | 7 months ago with 19 comments |
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| 2007 | | A Life-Saving Checklist (newyorker.com) |
| 163 points across 2 posts | 1 annotation | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2008 | | Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (newyorker.com) |
| 156 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2016 | | Patagonia's Philosopher King (newyorker.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (newyorker.com) |
| 151 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments |
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| 2009 | | Letter from the grave (newyorker.com) |
| 143 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong (newyorker.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 5 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2003 | | A Sudden Illness (newyorker.com) |
| 130 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1981 | | A.I. (newyorker.com) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2013 | | “Dune” Endures (newyorker.com) |
| 121 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2015 | | The dawn of online piracy (newyorker.com) |
| 115 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Real Heroes Are Dead (newyorker.com) |
| 113 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (newyorker.com) |
| 111 points | 1 annotation | 6 months ago with 162 comments |
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| 2017 | | Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (newyorker.com) |
| 111 points across 2 posts | 12 annotations | 8 months ago with 66 comments |
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| 2013 | | Slow ideas (newyorker.com) |
| 110 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 4 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2005 | | What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com) |
| 110 points | 12 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1959 | | A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (newyorker.com) |
| 107 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Serial-Killer Detector (newyorker.com) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Big Dig: Istanbul’s city planners have a problem: too much history (newyorker.com) |
| 105 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com) |
| 104 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2015 | | An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (newyorker.com) |
| 97 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2014 | | “Person of Interest”: The TV Show That Predicted Edward Snowden (newyorker.com) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | How people learn to become resilient (newyorker.com) |
| 93 points | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Last Survivors of Meridian 59 (newyorker.com) |
| 89 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2016 | | On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (newyorker.com) |
| 87 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com) |
| 87 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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