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| The best articles from nytimes.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2015 | | Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior (nytimes.com) |
| 61 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | Stanislav Petrov, Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War on Sept. 26, 1983 (nytimes.com) |
| 60 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2015 | | Picture This? Some Just Can’t (nytimes.com) |
| 59 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1862 | | Post office stamps as currency (nytimes.com) |
| 58 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Mind of a Con Man (nytimes.com) |
| 58 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is a 'Stack' the Best Way to Understand Everything? (nytimes.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2016 | | An amateur cloud society that rattled the scientific community (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1984 | | Personal Computers – Hardware Review – Apple Weighs in With Macintosh (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2009 | | E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2014 | | How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2013 | | In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1984 | | Personal computers: does everyone need to learn programming? (nytimes.com) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2007 | | Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? (nytimes.com) |
| 56 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2006 | | Colma, Calif., Is a Town of 2.2 Square Miles, Most of It 6 Feet Deep (nytimes.com) |
| 56 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2013 | | Azerbaijan is rich – now it wants to be famous (nytimes.com) |
| 55 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2019 | | What I Learned in Avalanche School (nytimes.com) |
| 55 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1999 | | Instant Company (nytimes.com) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1995 | | A 120-Year Lease on Life Outlasts Apartment Heir (nytimes.com) |
| 53 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2000 | | How Culture Molds Habits of Thought (nytimes.com) |
| 53 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2018 | | Hardy Fox, of the avant-garde band The Residents (maybe) (nytimes.com) |
| 52 points | 11 months ago with 13 comments |
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| 1984 | | Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite? (nytimes.com) |
| 52 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1996 | | Programming Languages: Survivors and Wannabes (nytimes.com) |
| 52 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1994 | | Six Smart Guys Sitting Around Talking (nytimes.com) |
| 51 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1997 | | To Test a Powerful Computer, Play an Ancient Game (nytimes.com) |
| 50 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2015 | | A Penny for Your Books (nytimes.com) |
| 50 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1985 | | Police Drop Bomb on Radicals' Home in Philadelphia (nytimes.com) |
| 50 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2001 | | Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, S.E.C. Nemesis, and 15 (nytimes.com) |
| 50 points | 10 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Being Hit by a Vehicle Changed Times Colleagues’ Lives (nytimes.com) |
| 50 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1981 | | Venture Capitalist: A Rise to Riches (nytimes.com) |
| 49 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1991 | | How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (nytimes.com) |
| 49 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age (nytimes.com) |
| 48 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1985 | | Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com) |
| 48 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2011 | | Decision Fatigue (nytimes.com) |
| 47 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1988 | | Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness (nytimes.com) |
| 47 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2015 | | Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (nytimes.com) |
| 47 points | 4 months ago with 51 comments |
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| 2004 | | What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (nytimes.com) |
| 46 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1982 | | Math and Music: The Deeper Links (nytimes.com) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Science of Addictive Junk Food (nytimes.com) |
| 44 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1993 | | The telephone transformed – into almost everything (nytimes.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Search Engine (nytimes.com) |
| 44 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1977 | | The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views (nytimes.com) |
| 44 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1984 | | Value Of Windowing Is Questioned (nytimes.com) |
| 44 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2019 | | Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (nytimes.com) |
| 43 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Baby-Formula Crime Ring (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1988 | | A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Conversation with Arthur C. Clarke (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2011 | | Don’t Blink: The Hazards of Confidence (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | Cleaving to the Medieval, Journeymen Ply Their Trades in Europe (nytimes.com) |
| 41 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2017 | | If You Build It, the Dutch Will Pedal (nytimes.com) |
| 41 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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