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2012Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com)
1086 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 315 comments
2019There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (nytimes.com)
529 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 125 comments
2018Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (nytimes.com)
485 points | 3 years ago with 250 comments
1981Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 354 comments
2019Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (nytimes.com)
395 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 147 comments
2001Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (nytimes.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 234 comments
2011The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
334 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
1981Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com)
318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2015Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (nytimes.com)
312 points | 6 years ago with 424 comments
1996The Net Is a Waste of Time (nytimes.com)
303 points | 11 years ago with 81 comments
2012Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (nytimes.com)
289 points | 8 years ago with 141 comments
1996The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (nytimes.com)
282 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 94 comments
2006In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (nytimes.com)
255 points | 6 years ago with 197 comments
2013Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com)
240 points | 8 years ago with 174 comments
1998America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (nytimes.com)
239 points | 10 years ago with 140 comments
1975Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (nytimes.com)
232 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2016If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (nytimes.com)
227 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments
2014What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (nytimes.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
1998How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (nytimes.com)
223 points | 14 years ago with 95 comments
2015Stop Checking Email So Often (nytimes.com)
222 points | 7 years ago with 169 comments
1981Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com)
215 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
1985Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com)
208 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments
2012Easing Eye Strain with the Right Lenses (nytimes.com)
187 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2010What Broke My Father's Heart (nytimes.com)
185 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2011In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (nytimes.com)
181 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments
2017Business networking is overrated (nytimes.com)
175 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
1861Is democracy a failure? (nytimes.com)
167 points | 8 years ago with 266 comments
1985What happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 86 comments
1990All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (nytimes.com)
156 points | 13 years ago with 80 comments
2009DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (nytimes.com)
154 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
1987Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (nytimes.com)
153 points | 2 years ago with 350 comments
2013The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (nytimes.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 30 comments
1998The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (nytimes.com)
149 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
2015How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (nytimes.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2019Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (nytimes.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments
1995The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (nytimes.com)
144 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments
2018The link between August birthdays and ADHD (nytimes.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2016Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (nytimes.com)
137 points | 4 years ago with 202 comments
2011Thinking, Fast and Slow (nytimes.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2013One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars (nytimes.com)
133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2012In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (nytimes.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
1983The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (nytimes.com)
130 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments
2017Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (nytimes.com)
129 points | 5 years ago with 135 comments
2018The Yoda of Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2017Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (nytimes.com)
125 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2012Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (nytimes.com)
124 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments
1985Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (nytimes.com)
122 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2019For many widows, the hardest part is mealtime (nytimes.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2015Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (nytimes.com)
118 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
1994Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (nytimes.com)
117 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 20 comments
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