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