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| The best articles from slate.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2012 | | Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com) |
| 977 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 733 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (slate.com) |
| 302 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2019 | | Lines of code that changed everything (slate.com) |
| 273 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 20 comments |
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| 2013 | | Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (slate.com) |
| 271 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2010 | | The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (slate.com) |
| 271 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2000 | | Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (slate.com) |
| 225 points | 12 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com) |
| 223 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2013 | | Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (slate.com) |
| 173 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (slate.com) |
| 155 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2005 | | My coffeehouse nightmare (slate.com) |
| 152 points | 6 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2012 | | YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (slate.com) |
| 140 points | 1 year ago with 155 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (slate.com) |
| 121 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (slate.com) |
| 119 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2017 | | Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (slate.com) |
| 108 points | 2 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (slate.com) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2013 | | 75 Years Ago, 'War of the Worlds' Started a Panic. Or Did It? (slate.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2001 | | The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (slate.com) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (slate.com) |
| 76 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2017 | | 19th Century Moral Panic Over Paper Technology (slate.com) |
| 72 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Where’s _why? (slate.com) |
| 71 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2009 | | Nordic Quack (slate.com) |
| 68 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2011 | | The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (slate.com) |
| 65 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2001 | | The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (slate.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2014 | | I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (slate.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2003 | | Is Math a Young Man's Game? (slate.com) |
| 61 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2013 | | Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s cities (slate.com) |
| 61 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Rise of “Logical Punctuation” (slate.com) |
| 61 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2010 | | Into Thin Error: Mountaineer Ed Viesturs on Making Mistakes (slate.com) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2011 | | How Hard Is It to Get a Cartoon into the New Yorker? (slate.com) |
| 60 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2009 | | Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (slate.com) |
| 59 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2015 | | Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade (slate.com) |
| 57 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Lost Art of Pickpocketing (slate.com) |
| 57 points | 10 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1910 | | Map of Bell Systems Telephone Network (slate.com) |
| 56 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2011 | | The “Nonplussed” Problem (slate.com) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2006 | | The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (slate.com) |
| 51 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2011 | | When did we start signing our names to authenticate documents? (slate.com) |
| 50 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2013 | | Thesis Hatement: Getting a literature Ph.D (slate.com) |
| 50 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Crisis in American Walking (slate.com) |
| 50 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2006 | | Why dumb recruits cost the Army, big-time (slate.com) |
| 47 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses (slate.com) |
| 46 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Beauty of Bounded Gaps (slate.com) |
| 44 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2011 | | San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic (slate.com) |
| 42 points | 1 year ago with 23 comments |
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| 2014 | | State Borders Were Drawn in the Distant Past. Time to Reimagine the Map? (slate.com) |
| 40 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2010 | | The Secret Language of Signs (slate.com) |
| 27 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Stutterer (slate.com) |
| 25 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2017 | | Apple Music Sing: Is this the dream karaoke machine? (slate.com) |
| 22 points | 1 year ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Accumulibrary (slate.com) |
| 15 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Alien-Life Summit (slate.com) |
| 11 points | 11 months ago with 2 comments |
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| 2009 | | It Themes Somehow Familiar (slate.com) |
| 10 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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